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The Apprentice Episode 7 – ‘Allo ‘Allo Meets French Retail Resistance

Tweet    The Apprentice Episode 7 – ‘Allo ‘Allo Meets French Retail Resistance Helen is the best listener I have seen in 7 series of The Apprentice – over 100 candidates. Rarely for a beautiful woman she can also take a compliment without that mock-embarrassed demur of someone who knows only too well how attractive […]

The Apprentice Episode 7 – Blowin’ In The Wind

Tweet    The Apprentice Episode 7 – Blowin’ in The Wind Being off school can blight your life. It all depends on what you miss. Long Division; the Past Historic; Dovetail Joints: no sweat, you’ll catch up, you’ll get the hang of it, you’ll pick it up from the repeats and action replays. But if […]

SENNA – Man, machine and mastery

Tweet Senna – Asif Kapadia A moving homage to one of the greats of Formula One. Nominated as one of the greatest racing drivers of all time by the most discerning judges, his fellow drivers, Ayrton Senna da Silva was 3-times World champion in 1988, 1990, 1991. His death in the San Marino Grand Prix […]

Just a Thought

TweetMorality: we don’t do it BECAUSE it’s right we do it because it’s RIGHT

Just a Thought

TweetWomen lie to men about sex; because they know men want them to.

BBC: The Apprentice Episode 6 – Steptoe vs Pickfords

TweetThe Apprentice Episode 6 – Steptoe vs Pickfords Best decision of the week: when Tom and Jimmy (some mouse that Jimmy) wanted to quit a job half way through because it was taking longer than they thought and wouldn’t make money, PM Helen immediately and decisively said “no – we can’t leave a client with […]

Just a Thought

Tweet We cannot offend God – we can only disappoint Him.

The Apprentice Ep 5 – Double Bubble

TweetThe Apprentice Episode 5 – Double Bubble Metaphor of the week: “ he had his head so far up Jim’s bottom that he couldn’t see the wood for the trees”. Now I neither have, nor entertain any aspiration to acquire any knowledge, intimate or generalised, about the terrain in question but if there is anything […]