Start the day well!

Start the day well!

Ah, interstate travel! Hopefully I can repeat this experience soon, but I can still share the lesson I learned. There I was at the crack of a dawn on a very sunny day on my walk along the Maroochydore boulevard on the Sunshine Coast (just to drop a name) when I saw a...
Another commercial

Another commercial

I don’t mind admitting it… this commercial does bring a tear, a big tear, to my eye. I just love it! Now, it runs for about 4 minutes so I don’t know whether it got played on free to air TV very often but there are lots of alternatives nowadays where it could be seen....
Writing to be Understood!

Writing to be Understood!

Years ago we used to have a fairly simple way of determining the readability of what you had written. It was called the Fog Test and we had a formula based on the length and number of words in a sentence, the average sentence length and the number of technical words,...
An Ugly Word!

An Ugly Word!

Like most people around the world (I was going to say in Australia till I realised that internationally everyone is pretty much in the same boat!) I wanted to get my booster vaccination, hopefully to prevent me coming down with the dreaded son of Covid, the omicron...
Playing fair

Playing fair

You may remember that I shared a commercial from Norwegian Postal Service Christmas TVC celebrating one of their nation’s proudest achievements that had been praised by commentators universally. Well, there were some negatives expressed and I share this article in the...