Just a friendly piece of advice – If you’re planning a trip to London, don’t choose the hottest day for a decade to do it. And especially don’t choose that day if you’re travelling by train. I made both mistakes last Wednesday, and it wasn’t much fun. Continue reading
Something strange happened this week. In most parts of the UK, it briefly stopped raining, the clouds broke and we had, what used to be known as , “a few nice days.” But times change. What I thought was a bit of good weather, was nothing of the sort. It was apparently, according to the government, a potentially hazardous weather event, deserving of a Level Two Alert. Continue reading
One of the really nice things about writing books is that readers get in touch, and somewhat surprisingly, almost all of them are really complimentary and nice. I like this for two reasons. Continue reading
A couple of days ago I sold an obscure French Chronograph watch with a Swiss movement to a man in New Zealand. In the internet age we take transactions like this for granted, and yet just a few years ago it almost certainly wouldn’t have happened. Continue reading
All the opinion polls over the past 4 weeks showed the Tories and Labour running neck and neck. It seems that they were wrong. Or were they? I’m not sure that they were, and the reason why I say that carries a vital lesson for anyone in business or with the ambition of launching a new one. Continue reading