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What do you think would happen if you left a child in a room with an age-appropriate new toy? CORRECT! They would just pick it up and try to work out how to play with it. Observing my own grandchildren…
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When you find yourself in a leadership position, you have a choice: be a builder or a destroyer. A builder of states, businesses, teams, dreams, lasting legacies and ways to improve on the world that hosted you for 70, 80…
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From a young age, probably six or seven, I looked to my father as an example of appearance. He was a man who cared about how he looked from the way he brushed his hair to the shoes he wore;…
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I wrote this story in the Autumn of 2006 as a Christmas gift to my wife Claire and three daughters Leila, Rosy and Faye. It was to remind the girls of their innocent and carefree childhood days when we invented…
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You might say it was the perfect British Summer’s Day on the banks of River Usk in Newport. A perfection spoilt, from her perspective, by the fact that nearly everyone in town felt the same way as she did and…
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Walter Patch is a genius but no one knows it, least of all, Walter himself. Walter is always thinking of new ideas and inventions but he ignores them for a while until eventually someone else comes along and thinks of…
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It was a Friday and Riesling took her bacon butty and Turkish Delight lunch pack and walked to the river front. Her usual bench was free and she could easily have sat there and got on with her lunch as…
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You wouldn’t have guessed it from her name but, Riesling is a Welsh woman through and through. She was born in Casnewydd (Newport to you and me), and she intends to die in Casnewydd, and that’s a fact. Her mother…
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Walter turned up at the M&S main entrance in Commercial Street just after 6:00 p.m. He didn’t know where exactly Riesling would emerge from and asked a member of staff in the front who directed him towards the staff entrance…
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The following week proved to be a slow and boring week for Riesling and Walter. Riesling however was deep in thought about her relationship with Walter. She felt strangely attracted to this oddball of a man who was obviously bright…
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