Tag: career
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Cathedral Close
It is eight o’clock. From the great Gothic mass of the cathedral a tintinnabulation of bells proclaims the hour. Skies of grey: footsteps echo on the cobbles of the Close, and birch trees that line Cathedral Green’s flat acres of grass drip solemnly, the rain’s history whispered among their leaves. The shower has passed, they…
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A Place that was Ours. Chapter Eighteen – Premiership
So my story must assume a mantle of years, rather than days; the tale of my growing up is told, and now, from a spring of frequent storms, you could say my summer days began. In the season of 1989-90, as Hamish Merchison predicted, Carlton Park was promoted to the English First Division,…
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Top-Class No. 1 Swami Fred. Get a life!
I have decided to become a Guru. Wikipedia (who know about these things) define ‘guru’ as ‘a Sanskrit term that connotes someone who is a teacher, guide or master of certain knowledge’ Well, I can do that. Here is my problem. All my life I have fairly effectively avoided the road to untold riches –…
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