Score one for Winno!

I think I’ve reflected previously about the fact that I’m not much of a handy man and even the simplest of tasks generally have me beat. But, until now, I always had a ready solution… a mate of mine could fix just about anything and solve almost any problem so I just...

Thinking of others

This story, from Yahoo!news really needs no comment from me other than to suggest that, after the terrible bushfires, there are probably many, many people who may be in dire need of the goods and services you deliver. How can you make a similar offer of help to them...

Little things

When I stayed a few days at a hotel in Sydney recently I was reminded of a popular song in my youth “Little Things Mean a Lot” written by Edith Lindeman (lyrics) and Carl Stutz (music). The last verse was… Send me the warmth of a secret smile To show me...

Tell them you love them!

Valentine’s day isn’t particularly big in our family’s lives but it seems as though young couples and non-bored domestic partnerships love it… maybe it’s an excuse to say “you’re okay” once a year whereas we old stoics know that you need to say it, and better still...

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...