Key questions for job interviews
Next time you are interviewing a candidate for a job, be aware of what they are really asking you: what...
A dream hotel
What more could a host do for travelling guests? Â If any hotel chain is clever enough to adopt this...
Revisiting The Hobbit
The Hobbit is the first major book of which I have a conscious memory. Â Probably four or five years...
The charm of trolls
One of many examples of pawky humour in The Hobbit. A few pages later the same trolls are discussing what...
Foresight meets hindsight
Being a wizard, of course, would mean that Gandalf would know exactly when to look ahead and when to look...
Wisdom for a merrier world
Not a bad outline of what it would take to make the world merrier: the simple enjoyment of food, cheer...
Seek and you shall find … something
A piece of sage advice - you will always find something if you look. But is it what you (thought...
Away with adventures!
Bilbo Baggins has no use for adventures, as he asserts, before heading off into the greatest adventure of his life,...
Farewell wishes (and how to not turn up for work)
I love these leave-taking wishes between Gandalf the wizard and the Elvenking. I keep turning over the implications of the...
Write me some moon-letters
The love of letters, maps and handwriting all bundled into one exuberant quotation. Â I now need to figure out the...
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