Building relationships

I just love the way that the advent of mobile phone messaging has allowed people you never hear from to suddenly contact you at their whim. Over the last few years we’ve bought several cars from this car dealer and had them serviced there too. We’ve never...

How intimidating are you?

Here’s a couple of photos of the front door of a shop and, as the subscriber who sent it to me said, “We wonder if they get any business!” He added, “You never see the owner smiling!” There seems to be a particular group of business owners who belong to a cult of...

Another lost opportunity

I recently took Shah, our big fat cat, to the Vet to have his ear repaired after a fight (his wound looked bad but we don’t know how the opponent’s ears looked!). The amazing thing is that when I was waiting to see the Vet there was a whole lot of cat and dog food,...

When communities work together

Isn’t it wonderful when communities work together in harmony for the common good as this video shows. Think of what could be achieved and what problems could be solved if we could get our families, workplaces, communities, political parties, governments and nations to...

They never go out of style

If you are like me you may reflect occasionally on how people are so busy taking selfies and pasting them on every social media site that all those old fashioned ideas of politeness and courtesy seem to have slowly disappeared in this fast moving, digital, politically...