COME ON!

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. Then there is an alternative definition which states  that the first sign of madness is talking to...
IT’S MY JOB  

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 again (Barty in tennis,  Healy in cricket). In fact, they are both superstars in...
PLAN AND PLAY  

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 live to be one hundred and fifty  years old is already fifty years old. As if that was...
HERE THE TWAIN SHALL MEET

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, entrepreneur and  speaker. He probably has never really been noted to be a...
FURTHER LESSONS FROM FATHERS  

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 characters were always fighting, they  also often involved a bulldog called Spike and his...