When I was with The Men’s Table we did some media training that stuck in my head. It was a simple, brilliant solution of what to do when you are in a difficult situation with the media.  The person doing the training gave us a situation where something really bad had happened and The Daily Telegraph were knocking at the door wanting blood for their readers to lap up. What do you do? It is tricky as you have to make sure you do not make the situation worse. 

Everyone knows about the Titanic. Huge ship, iceberg, boom – disaster. But what's often missed is that they got tons of warnings about ice and nobody listened. The radio guys were passing them along, but the captain, he didn't seem to listen, you could say he iced the radio operators. (Thank you). He changed course a bit, but didn't slow down. Plus, those radio guys were swamped with “important” messages from passengers – like, "Hey, Ethel, having a great time!"

I’ve done lots of silly things in my life, probably more than most; it has led to an interesting life I suppose. A lot of what I have done has been spontaneous and ended in some kind of issue arising, being in various levels of issueness. From fully grabbing an electric fence when I was a kid, right through to some stuff that has put me in life threatening situations. If I were a cat I would have used up half of my lives by now. However, I could have avoided these situations if I had been listening.   Read on….

From the late 1960s through to the mid-1980s hijacking of planes was a regular thing.  A group of people would board a plane with some kind of agenda and divert it by getting the crew to fly the plane somewhere else. They would announce “This is a hijack, nobody do anything silly.” Read on……

Things stick in your head sometimes, sometimes for years. Many years ago somebody came into my life, and I can’t say I ever really liked him. He was bombastic and had done very well for himself; financially he was loaded let’s say.  He was a friend of a friend and we just kept crossing paths. Read more below…….