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#tunesday 12th November 2019
Happy Smoothsday Would you sell your soul for Total Control? One of the most wonderful things about what happened just after Punk happened is that otherwise dead smoochy, end-of-disco, slow, please-don't-snog-me songs suddenly became edgy and intense. And really very...
How to present – preparing for a speech (1)
Go for it (you'd better be good) or prepare yourself! Fail to prepare and prepare to fail! You know, you really can deliver a humdinger of a speech by just going for it. It's called impromptu speaking or, as I remember we used to call it fondly at Toastmasters, Table...
#tunesday 5th November 2019
Happy Smoothsday Something for Each and Everyone? So very nearly! I remember when I was a teenager that it was possible to love good ol' fashioned swoonsome music. Particularly if the people responsible were dressed in long coats and groovy hairdos. This cool-some...
How to present – catchphrases
Take a tip from the pros - grab a catchphrase Play your cards right I've been missing an important component of one of my favourite ever Saturday Night TV doses of sheer, unadulterated, light entertainment. Strictly Come Dancing, as irresistible as it still is, just...
#tunesday 29th October 2019
Jacky Tunesday! Passion, purpose and lots and lots of perspiration This song is hot and breathless indeed. You can hear the sweat pouring off it. It's a jaunty little number called La Chanson de Jacky by the Belgian chanter Jacques Brel. Even if you couldn't get much...
#tunesday 18th October 2019
Folking fenomenal? Marvellous Martyn Music from this geezer is rich indeed. If you haven't check him out yet, please do. He was a wildly accomplished guitarist, his voice was velvet and he wrote some damned memorable songs, to be sure. Wistful Wish This song is like a...