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Middleman: Australian Adventures Part Three
And so we are now into our second week Down Under and I think that everyone in our away party (two American ladies of a certain age and two British lads in their prime) is feeling a little jaded and quite a bit homesick.
We are, however, still managing t...
Dateline: 2013-05-20 3:36pm -07:00T (584 words)
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Middleman: Australian Adventures Part Two
Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, Australia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I am ten days into a twenty-four day business trip to South East Asia and Australia. And, I am missing home. And, I am still struggling to establish any sensible sleep pattern. Any patter...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 5:06pm -07:00T (736 words)
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Middleman: Australian Adventures Part 1
I flew out of Manchester to Bangkok, via Dubai on Wednesday evening, arriving on Thursday evening, local time. I had a business meeting on the Friday, and so, it was a rather weary Middle Man that pitched up for yet another flight this time from Bangkok ...
Dateline: 2013-05-11 2:36am -07:00T (680 words)
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Middleman: Andalusian Adventures Part One
Well, as we all know, Monopoly is a game of chance, requiring absolutely zero skill, and decided by the roll of a dice…….and, I have just been soundly trounced by my better half who was some £28.5 million better off than myself, even after...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 4:36pm -07:00T (664 words)
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Middleman: Jack Reacher
Now C and I enjoy settling down to a good movie in the evening when we are on holiday. Well, thank you Mr Cruise for ruining an otherwise perfectly fine evening.
I am a fan of the books in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Childs. I have read them a...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 4:36pm -07:00T (390 words)
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Middleman: Andalusian Aventures Part Two
Do you know the classic pub scene in American Werewolf in London where the two American tourists walk into the Slaughtered Lamb pub in the middle of nowhere to be greeted with silence, stares and suspicion and a Satanic sign on the wall?
Well, C and I ex...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 4:36pm -07:00T (677 words)
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Middleman: Andalusian Aventures Part Two
Do you know the classic pub scene in American Werewolf in London where the two American tourists walk into the Slaughtered Lamb pub in the middle of nowhere to be greeted with silence, stares and suspicion and a Satanic sign on the wall?
Well, C and I ex...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 2:51am -07:00T (677 words)
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Middleman: Jack Reacher
Now C and I enjoy settling down to a good movie in the evening when we are on holiday. Well, thank you Mr Cruise for ruining an otherwise perfectly fine evening.
I am a fan of the books in the Jack Reacher series written by Lee Childs. I have read them a...
Dateline: 2013-04-29 2:21am -07:00T (392 words)
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Middleman: Andalusian Adventures Part One
Well, as we all know, Monopoly is a game of chance, requiring absolutely zero skill, and decided by the roll of a dice…….and, I have just been soundly trounced by my better half who was some £28.5 million better off than myself, even aft...
Dateline: 2013-04-28 11:21am -07:00T (646 words)
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Middleman: Canned Conference
I have just been “fortunate” enough to spend the last couple of days at a conference in Cannes, location of the famous annual film festival. I have been unfortunate enough to spend this time amongst 750 or so bankers…….which migh...
Dateline: 2013-04-28 5:21am -07:00T (745 words)
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Middleman: You Couldn’t Make This Up – 2
So, the world’s own real-life James Bond baddy, Kim Jong-Un of North Korea seems intent on taking us all to the brink of nuclear war as he moves missiles within range of South Korea, Japan and US military bases in Guam. He is nuts.
Kim Jong-Un is j...
Dateline: 2013-04-05 3:36am -07:00T (231 words)
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Middleman: You Couldn’t Make This Up – 1
So, the American navy has been forced to scrap a $300 million minesweeper, the USS Guardian, after it ran aground on the Tubbataha coral reef off the coast of the Philippines. Apparently, the ship’s captain ignored numerous attempts to warn it tha...
Dateline: 2013-04-05 1:06am -07:00T (222 words)
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Middleman: The Full Monty
Now, you can get easily spoiled. And, clearly a four-day weekend over this Easter break has done for me. Four days of gentle relaxation, good food, nice days out, wonderful company, and, sleeping in your own bed has spoilt me rotten.
And so, a one night ...
Dateline: 2013-04-03 1:06am -07:00T (600 words)
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Middleman: Paranoia?
I am suspicious about those little tubes of hotel cosmetics. You know, the tube of bath/shower gel, the shampoo, and the body lotion/moisturiser.
i am even more suspicious about then”all over body shampoo” hat I fell victim to this morning. ...
Dateline: 2013-03-27 3:21pm -07:00T (342 words)
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Middleman: Golden Days
It is fifty years since my mom and dad, Olwyne and Ernie, got married. Fifty years. Looking back from five decades and a new century on it is hard to imagine what life was like back in 1963. And, so I want to refresh your memories and take you back on a ...
Dateline: 2013-03-24 10:21am -07:00T (1722 words)
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