The first time I hosted a webinar I was extremely nervous. It was the enormity and the responsibility of it all. I thought of all the things that could go wrong, as well as all the minor glitches, the mix-ups, the misunderstanding, the unexplained pauses, the communications failures, the outages and network snafus. I was […]
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PEAGE PINTXOS BANISTER: May 2026
Ahem, I travelled down to La Hune with Jurrat and Jessie in a well-loaded car [...]
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MUSKETS SHRIFT RAPT: April 2026
Ahem Alli and I were up and early on Good Friday to be driven with [...]
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The hidden past of the bisexual pronoun Those of all political and cultural persuasions [...]
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BABY FAIRYLAND TWITTEN: March 2026
Ahem I was about to open a pile of birthday cards when I was encouraged [...]
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QUOTIDIAN HAMMERHEAD HIPPO: February 2026
Ahem Rain and colder weather in southern England dominated the first few days of the [...]
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Ahem, Late in the evening before my 60th birthday I was sitting morosely in my small studio flat, watching the 25th episode of the 3rd series of House of Cards on Netflix when I got an email from my daughters and wife attaching a 2gb video file entitled Happy Birthday Dad.wmv. After some fairly predictable […]
Ahem In Cote d’Ivoire there are several different economies that co-exist but are segregated. The economy at street level in Abidjan is entirely cash-driven. With cash, you are powerful and you can bargain down the price as everyone needs cash flow more than they seem to need capital. Whether purchasing a month’s wifi coverage, a […]
Ahem New Year’s Day saw my return journey to Abidjan, and having failed to sleep on a long route from a freaked Frankfurt via Addis Ababa, I was very tired when I arrived in the heat of the following morning. After much va-et-vient with cash cards, keys, suitcases and documents, I got to the flat […]
Ahem I flew home to France on a circuitous route to Basel from Abidjan after five pell-mell weeks of work to find Christmas in overdrive at home. Shortly after I arrived, the girls also came clattering back from their abodes in Brighton, London and Dakha. It’s been a grand year of travel, from family gatherings […]
One of the communicator’s most difficult dilemmas is how to reconcile the conflicting views of non-technical audiences with the views of genuine experts who interpret and present complex data on matters such as safety and security. The issue is that risk is both intrinsically and perceptionally variable. Risk is usually expressed by experts in terms […]
Ahem I drove to the UK to visit my friends John and Jan as well as to pick up a year’s worth of our UK purchases (of long-awaited presents and books) sent to Laurie and Kay in Sussex. It was a long and hard drive to Calais from Basel, and a shorter but harder one […]