Category: What maketh the man
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I really enjoyed the Hobbit film, mostly because the book means so much to me. I read the book when I was eight and it was magical, I still adore it and look forward to reading it to my kids. I have to admit I'm a slight geek about Tolkien stuff, but not so…
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It does exactly what it says on the tin. A steam train, with elves, Scrooge, reindeer and The Man Himself. I honestly thought Will was going to self-combust when you saw Father Christmas. Christmas is ace when you have kids.
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(this is a Howies picture) I don't believe in having didactic rules and proprieraty process for going about strategy – it's quite simple, yet quite hard………. Understand the business issue and our role in solving it What do we know about the audience/culture/market that will help us? What is the core thought? Why is that…
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My one year old little girl has a cough that's keeping her awake at night. So Mrs Northern and I are taking in turns to sleep with her. The routine seems to be putting her to bed okay, eventually stumbling up ourselves, being woken by a little coughing fit around 2am, waiting for her to…
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I had the children to myself on Saturday, which was lovely. Before reading, painting, trip the park and then on to see the parrots at the pet shop, there was a little bit of watching Toy Story while Daddy made breakfast. According the the academics and psuedo experts on Mumsnet, telly is a total no…
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So I was sat on a train, en-route to Heathrow and eventually the Nurburgring, Italian race cars and ridulously good Italian cuisine. You'd have liked it (it was work by the way). I found all this exciting when the trip was first planned but, to be honest, one hour into the journey I was already…
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The Smiths are famous for, shall we say, not having produced the sunniest cannon of music. For fans like me, the songs are witty, thoughtful and sometimes very funny, but, it has to be said mostly, they invoke an intense feeling of melancholy.This is good, in my view, human experience is not made of happy…
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I loathe Blackberries. Not only do I loathe the 'serious busines, work ethic' shtick that is the true culture around these things (at least for spoilt middle class people like me) I hate the fact they're crap at anything apart from email. Apps and other bolt ons are just, well, crap (unless you want to…
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Let us be clear, this has nothing to do with proper tea. Nothing at all.
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