[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 05.09.2011] ‘Get ready to enter the history books’, the sign reads. Of all the implausible scenarios regarding the likely source of the fifteen minutes of fame owed to me by life ever since the day I reluctantly accepted that I would become neither rock star nor professional footballer, this has to be the …
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 13.11.2008] It is 8:29am, I have a suitcase and laptop case and I am catching the train to Waterloo, the opposite direction to my usual routine. This is new territory for me. No longer the fresh salmon leaping freely against the flow of this raging commuters’ torrent, I am now a common sardine …
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED 21.10.2008] It all started this morning, at precisely 10:34am. The sound came from the other side of the building, possibly from one of those footloose and fancy-free creative types in the Design Department, or likelier still, from the devious stock-pinching rascals in UK Sales. It wasn’t loud, but there was no mistaking its …