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Tag: mistakes

  • slip, slap, splosh

    Today’s bloggage is going to be like Zacchaeus – quite short. Occasionally this week I have been watching the Commonwealth Games. Two thoughts occurred to me as I was watching a poor Australian springboard diver who slipped on the board as he was in mid-spring and ended up landing on his back. As I resisted…

  • permission granted?

    I can remember once being told that it is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. It was said slightly tongue-in-cheek, but only slightly. The premise for that maxim is that getting permission from someone can be time-consuming, takes a degree of tact and diplomacy and you have to be good at patiently explaining yourself,…