Great start to the day – and discovering nature

Great start to the day – and discovering nature

Tracy, Liz and me walking through Cambridge to Grantchester Empty deck chairs at The Orchard Tea Rooms, Grantchester Perfectly planted cyclamen I had good news first thing this morning with a reply from Blogging4Business allowing me a media pass to attend this event....

Blogging for business

I am hoping to make a PR niche in blogging, I utterly trust what my blogging guru says on the subject and have been swotting hard on it too. We are always light years away from the USA on IT where blogging has been making waves for a few years now. Today I went to see...

Getting better…..

Scott, on holiday in Edinburgh, eating a haggis I am beginning to get the hang of Toastmasters. I was told it is a good sign if you feel twitchy inside, it means you are not over-confident, but I need convincing. My American friend Scott, a fantastic salsa dancer,...

More Toastmasters …..

I’m a few days late with this posting, but I have good news to report. There was a marked improvement with my latest “off the hoof” speech at Cambridge Toastmasters The tabletop topic required us to describe what it would have been like to live...

Swans and bird flu

While swans are reportedly dying in parts of Europe, victim of the much feared H5N1 virus strain, they were very much in evidence at the Wetland and Wildfowl Trust in Welney yesterday where scores of visitors watched them being fed. I last went to the reserve in...