Another commercial

I wrote some time ago to praise the Sleeping Duck mattress radio advertising. You remember the matress… supposedly invented by aerospace engineers. They’re obviously doing well enough to afford professionally produced commercials although, because of their odd length,...

Postage Stamps

Remember I said to you I was going to mail out regular thank you notes? That’s starting about now, but what delayed it is that I was waiting for my own postage stamp. Yes, that’s right! A postage stamp with my head on it! You see, if you pay the...

Warning on dates

I had an email note from Mike Brookes, General Counsel at Hall & Wilcox, Melbourne Lawyers, on the potential risks when dating documents this year. It’s a very simple cautionary note but well with remembering. “There has been talk in the media about the potential...

More on sponsorship

The article on sponsorship I wrote recently prompted a recollection from Bob Leonard who wrote to say… “A great idea a former publican friend did re sponsorship was to offer them an amount, to get that amount he gave the club 1,000 vouchers for the club to distribute...

Having a chuckle, 10 years on…

Here’s a blog post I wrote around 10 years ago: “Dentist goes even more high tech You know how when you visit any health professional, the receptionist normally hands you a clip board, a pen and a 76 question personal disclosure sheet which you need to...