As I prepared to leave the gilded world of Barclays Bank after twenty-five largely enjoyable years, what to do next was far from clear. But it did give me a chance to write a few modest books, for personal satisfaction over anything else.
Archives for March 2020
Fifty Not Out – Revisited – Ch1
Almost a decade ago, as I prepared to leave the gilded world of Barclays Bank after twenty-five enjoyable years, what to do next was far from clear. But it did give me a chance to write a few modest books, for personal satisfaction if anything else.
Given we are all going to be in this for some time, I decided to serialise the third book, published in 2013 to celebrate my fiftieth birthday. I’ve reproduced each chapter with only modest tweaks.
The three books raised over £6,000 for junior cricket; I hope you enjoy.
Tales From The Scruffy – Till We Meet Again
“When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters – one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.”
John F. Kennedy
Taken from April’s edition of The Trumpit out next week.
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Tales From The Scruffy
“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful”
Warren Buffett
“It’s a closing down sale” said Big Al tempting me to ignore the trustworthy Mr Johnson’s sombre advice, merely twenty-four hours previously. “Consider it Christmas Eve…early in…early out!”
I knew he was talking bollocks but I was hooked like a lame old fish, downstream all the way and we all know how this ends.
I’m A Robbing Celebrity
“If you say a modern celebrity is an adulterer, a pervert and a drug addict, all it means is that you’ve read his autobiography.”
P.J. O’Rourke
Watching C4’s Dispatches expose on so-called celebrities who endorse charities, so long as they get their pockets filled, was not a great surprise.
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