Raphael is a street entertainer in Montreal. Monday is Victoria Day – a national holiday – and in the sunshine he performs in the Place Jacques-Cartier, taking his 30-minute pitch in between other performers. But Raphael makes more money than anyone else as I watch from the restaurant alongside. Why? His act is good –
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Well after my last post (they called the flight) we all sat on the aircraft for a while and the pilot then told us that: the reason for the delay was that Heathrow was busy (duh) and because our aircraft had to be towed to the gate across from the other side of the airport,
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I’ve been sat in T4 (Heathrow) for 4.5 hours now. Flight was due to leave an hour ago – no news, no announcement, no aircraft, no ground staff – just 300 tired people waiting around in a gate area with seats for 100. Nothing seems to be changing then – although the flight down from
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I’ve been sat in T4 (Heathrow) for 4.5 hours now.Flight was due to leave an hour ago – no news, no announcement, no aircraft, no ground staff – just 300 tired people waiting around in a gate area with seats for 100. Nothing seems to be changing then – although the flight down from Edinburgh
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I’ll be catching a flight from Edinburgh to Heathrow this morning – and then Heathrow to Montreal. Sounds crazy for a guy who started his journey in Cornwall on Friday afternoon but there’s method in my madness. I’ll be flying back from Canada and straight into a workshop week that goes Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham
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OK – maybe a bit of sore losing on my part – but the honours for the season have been shared well on reflection. I’m just glad I didn’t have a seizure a few weeks ago and pay the £1750 asking price for a pitch-side seat at the new Wembley – or, for that matter,
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A flying visit to the Crowne Plaza at the Birmingham NEC, where my former client Dr. John Rees is presenting the Aesthetic Dental Congress and we have a stand. Arriving at 9.00pm, I bump into Jon and the amazing Dr. Bob in reception. Dr.Bob (he is now a brand, no longer a person) looks his
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Here’s a thing. If you enter “Chris Barrow” into a Google search engine, you will see two sponsored links. At the top of the page, Blue Horizons (dental marketing consultants) and on the top of the side bar, my old friend Yvonne Wallace at Designer Dental (dental marketing consultants), Amazon and some guy called Vanish
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Here’s a thing.If you enter “Chris Barrow” into a Google search engine, you will see two sponsored links. At the top of the page, Blue Horizons (dental marketing consultants) and on the top of the side bar, my old friend Yvonne Wallace at Designer Dental (dental marketing consultants), Amazon and some guy called Vanish Patel
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