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A magical conversation with Pauline Crawford
Pauline and I go back many years, and every time our paths cross and we hook up again, it’s like we only saw each other yesterday. Pauline is a woman transforming the world – and, she intends, the boardroom. A conference speaker of 20 years experience, Pauline works with top people who want a business world… (read more)
Jazzing it up with Alan Barnes
Alan Barnes is one of the most self-effacing people I have ever interviewed. He has a string of accolades and awards including BBC Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year (2001 and 2006). He was made a Fellow of Leeds College of Music in 2003 and has played with such greats as Humphrey Littleton, Dick Walter, Kenny Baker,… (read more)
Tim Kliphuis – the fiddler raising the roof
© Marco Borggreve I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dutchman Tim Kliphuis on my ‘In The Limelight’ radio show in advance of his visit to Newark to play at the Jazz Weekend at Ann et Vin. I also had the greatest pleasure in hearing Tim and his Trio play and I have to say… (read more)
Hovis – one hilarious horse!
As an author of four books of horsy humour (three published by Hodder and Stoughton and one self-published), I know it is no mean feat to publish your first book. And it’s a great achievement when you have no previous knowledge of the publishing industry. So congratulations are well deserved for Karen Thompson and Hovis… (read more)
Travel – without or within?
If we live truly, we shall see truly. – Ralph Waldo Emerson Not everyone wants to travel the world, but most people can identify at least one place in the world they’d like to visit before they die. Where is that place for you, and what will you do to make sure you get there?… (read more)
One Strong Belief
It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance The Challenge: ‘The world is powered by… (read more)
Today’s writing challenge
Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. The force of character is cumulative. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance If ‘the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks,’ then it is more genuine to be present today than to recount… (read more)