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Archive for December, 2006

Taking a break…

I am off to Spain today to spend a week resting and indulging in my favourite sport of skydiving in Empuriabrava Spain. There are lots of former and current national champions who will be at the airfield. One of the great things about the skydiving community is that it is very inclusive. […]

Season's Greetings …

The challenge at Christmas for many is to buy the perfect present, to exceed the expectation of those to whom we buy gifts for. To see their faces light up in genuine joy, and with the exception of children I believe the gift is always secondary to the sentiment behind it, to know that […]

The Extra Mile…

Today I had my last official piece of business, which required I travel by train three hours to a meeting that would last an hour at the most. The meeting had to be face to face, which given the six hours travelling that it would require, made it a long day.
I had planned to […]

It seems to be a very regular feature of many people’s lives that the New Year, is a time of optimism and wished for success. It is a time when we determine to make a resolution that will become our target for the year. The usual ones we can all recite parrot fashion; getting fit, […]

Planning Dreams 2007

I recently went to a talk given by the first brothers from the UK to summit Mt Everest together, Tom and Ben Clowes http://www.tomclowes.com
It was an excellent talk and at the heart of it was the desire to attempt to fulfil a lifetime dream, and doing so in the knowledge that if they failed […]