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#13 – AGES

The first time I felt old was when I was sitting across from my rather pompous obstetrician, and he informed me that I was a Geriatric...

Nov 30, 2020

We’ve all learnt a lot about ourselves this year – some lessons more profound than others. Possibly the least profound but one of the...

Nov 16, 2020

Christmas can bring its own kind of chaos. Christmas 2001 will always be one of my absolute favourites, notwithstanding that I’d...

Nov 8, 2020

I was never fabulous on terra firma, even back in the day when all of my limbs worked immediately and harmoniously on demand. I was...

Nov 2, 2020

“Angel, promise me you’ll learn how to use a computer. Your career will never go anywhere until you do.” These were the sincere and...

Oct 26, 2020

One of my less admirable habits is that I resolutely try to beat my children at games. Even when they were young. Even on their birthdays...

Oct 19, 2020

It was a crazy, crazy time in advertising in the mid-’80s. I miss it so much. The agency I worked at had not only taken me on as a junior...

Oct 12, 2020

Although we all knew the term, “black swan events” were such a mysterious and distant notion, you’d give yourself a mental high-five for...

Oct 5, 2020

“DON’T SAY A WORD! Let him THINK you’re stupid, instead of KNOW you’re stupid.” These were the immortal words whispered urgently into my...

Oct 1, 2020

I got trapped in a cheese counter in Hong Kong once. I was due to give a speech the following day, and thought I should get out of the...

Sep 21, 2020

I learned a rather important lesson during an interview in London, at the outset of the 90’s recession, having just been made redundant....

Sep 15, 2020

After being in London for about 13 kilograms (which roughly equates to 18 months give or take), my mother subtly mentioned that she’d...

Aug 25, 2020

My “passionate weirdness” and hybrid CV, which hitherto had been sources of ire and consternation for nuns and search firms alike, are...

Aug 22, 2020