My 15 minutes’ of fame!

If you’re a news junkie you can’t have missed me last week.  BBC Radio London, BBC London News, Daily Telegraph and BBC Breakfast!  What a cornucopia of media attention for a Chiswick marketing consultant. The reason for this celebrity?  The King’s Speech.  Despite the spin put on Lionel Logue’s speech therapy for George VI in the movie, The King’s Speech, it turns out that perhaps his speech impediment was not as ‘cured’ as we are led to believe.  Back in 1941 my father, then a lowly sound engineer at the BBC, was called on to edit out the fluffs...
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Networking

Some are avid networkers, others avoid it like the plague.  I’m in between.  But yesterday’s do at Sam’s Brasserie was definitely one of the better events I’ve attended.  I met some genuinely interesting people with whom I think I can do business.  Conversation was eased by the most exquisite canapes I’ve EVER had! Sam Harrison and his team run a great neighbourhood bar and brasserie and I’m lucky enough to have them right next door.  Mulling this over later led me to realise how very important (for me, at least) is the location of one’s business...
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