Day: July 24, 2024

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T  

In 1967, Aretha Franklin was transformed from a domestic star into an international one through the  release of her version of Otis Redding’s song entitled ‘Respect’. In the years that

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CELEBRATING CELEBRATIONS 

Over the years there have been some extraordinary as well as trademark celebrations of sporting  success. Cristiano Ronaldo’s well-known and often-copied ‘Si’ celebration comes to mind. Usain  Bolt’s two-armed lightning

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COME ON!

There is an old saying that the first sign of madness is having hairs on the palms of your hands while  the second sign of madness is looking for them.

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IT’S MY JOB  

What do Ashleigh Barty and Alyssa Healy have in common? Well, they are both ladies – true! They  are both Australian – correct. They are both international sportswomen – right

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PLAN AND PLAY  

A few years ago, a senior representative of a pensions company in South Africa made an astonishing  point at a Conference Dinner. He said that the first person who will

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HERE THE TWAIN SHALL MEET

Mark Twain is known for many things, principally as the creator of the fictional stories about Tom  Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, but he is also celebrated as a popular humourist,

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FURTHER LESSONS FROM FATHERS  

In the middle of the last century the cartoon antics of ‘Tom and Jerry’ (the cat and mouse duo) were  hugely popular on television and film screens. While these two

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I’M YOUR DAD  

We have all read them, all those sayings about winning and losing. Vince Lombardi famously (or  maybe fatuously) declared that “Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing” while Knute Rockne