B.O.G.O.F No, that isn’t a variant on the ‘Go forth and multiply’ imprecation that has occasionally been heard to pass from my lips. It is the acronym so beloved of supermarkets and any number of retail outlets that call to us with their siren’s song of, ‘Buy one, get one free’. It always seems such a great offer until one gets home and wonders just what exactly you are going to do with 16 hot...
January 2016
So another year begins with great expectations and hopes of a bright new dawn and we haven’t even got through January and my hopes have been dashed on the rocks of dodgy journalism and the somewhat perfidious behaviour of my fellow estate agents. Firstly, I must hold my hands up to breaking my own resolutions; despite my best efforts, I am only managing 8 miles on my morning run as opposed to my planned...
Alongside the deluge of guidance/direction/admonishments that we are all going to die if we don't do as we are told (technically speaking, we are all going to die) that rain down upon us at this time of year, that will-if followed-'guarantee' that we will live longer, lose half our body weight and ascend to some transcendental nirvana, has come some guidance as to how best to sell one's home. In a week...
...game/winner/hit/performance..." So goes the old adage, advising us not to place too much emphasis on what has happened in the past. Top earner on bob-a-job in 1972, Regional Manager of the Year-1997-1999, breaking the 1000 barrier for number of 'friends' on Facebook in 2015.. All highly commendable, (well maybe not the last one, you social misfit), but mean absolutely naff all in the context of what you...
So would utter Senna the Soothsayer to Frankie Howerd's Lurcio in Up Pompeii. The history of those predicting the future is something of a mixed bag; from Cassandra of Greek mythology, who having spurned the advances of the god Apollo was cursed by him to never be believed (cue the Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy), through Caesar being told beware the ides of March (he didn't have to after the 15 March...
