Seem to spend some evenings watching detective series repeats, you know the thing, Lewis, Morse, Endeavour, Poirot, Miss Marple that kind of thing. Watching Poirot the other night my little grey cells were stimulated by the plot which revolved around a typing pool. They are no more Typing pool? Yes where they had several women […]

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Louis Kahn, now a world famous legendary architect, died alone, bankrupt, at home** (SEE BELOW) He had a love, passion even, for the materials he worked with to create his marvellous projects. He said something like “Even a brick wants to be something, what does it want to be?” Significance. Everything cries out for significance. […]

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I’ve followed Seth Godin for several years now. I receive his daily insights and most days he really makes me think. You can check him out here, well worth a read: Seth Godin A couple of his recent posts have made me really think. They are linked below: Somethings more interesting than this Cars houses […]

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“Maybe we should all have a vagina…..” Arriving soon…. And hey! Let’s be careful out there! :o)

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The iPhone zombies. They walk among us. We see them everyday. Walking down the street, heads stuck into their phones oblivious to everything else. What is so important that you need to read your phone as you walk and bump into everyone else? Had to do a body swerve this morning to avoid a zombie, […]

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Well blow me down and call me Nancy! If they didn’t go and do it again. Amazon have now recommended my book “The Construction Manager’s BIM Handbook’ to me see below. Again I admire their taste, but what they won’t know is that this book is currently being translated into Chinese and will be available […]

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Funny how small things make a big difference, perhaps even more difference than the things you’d expect. My long time friend Isabella passed away today. To explain, Isabella is a Japanese fire bellied newt. Photos below. I offered to look after her for a friend about 30 years ago. She was moving out of the […]

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