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Introducing Presenter Coach

a new tool to make PowerPoint useful again Photo by Nghia Nguyen on Unsplash Do you remember PowerPoint? Do you still use it? I feel sure that many presenters and public speakers have long dismissed Powerpoint, probably feeling that it is both overused and regularly misused. Well, guess what? It is possibly time to get out PowerPoint once…… Continue reading Introducing Presenter Coach

The Evening Lake

This image was taken one evening while I was staying at a hotel near Chepstow in Wales.

Speech Writing

There are many different types of speech and almost as many different ways of writing a speech. Like all good speech writers, I like to vary my approach according to the nature of the speech to be written. I tend to follow 3 criteria when writing a speech; The person delivering the speech The occasion…… Continue reading Speech Writing

How Failing as a Decent Human Being Taught Me Empathy

I lost my first fiancée in a car crash. It doesn‘t take much imagination to realise how that event had a devastating effect on my life. It was a few years later that I started dating again. One of the first people I met, was a girl close to my age, called Rachel. We met, I…… Continue reading How Failing as a Decent Human Being Taught Me Empathy

Photo Challenge Week 5: Warmth

I had to cheat a little with this week’s photo. As I’ve not been able to get out and about for a few weeks, I have had to upload an old photo and, to make things worse, I have used a photo from my phone rather than my camera. The theme is ‘warmth’. On a…… Continue reading Photo Challenge Week 5: Warmth

Hello world!

Here we are again. Having had the site corrupted and crashed by a faulty update to a plugin, I am having to rebuild the site from scratch once more. Please bear with me while I put together some of the old and lots of new features.

A Spot of Gardening

This morning I ventured out into the garden for the first time this year. With a gammy knee still playing me up, there was not a lot I could do in the way of gardening. All I could do was rake up dead leaves, hoe some weeds and tidy up a couple of taller planters.…… Continue reading A Spot of Gardening

between the tick and the tock

Between the Tick and the Tock The city of Gloucester is an old city and a dirty city. Even its most modern buildings are old and dirty. It is a neglected city; neglected by its council, neglected by its citizens who prefer the bright clean streets of Cheltenham. Even the railways and main roads prefer…… Continue reading between the tick and the tock