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1st August 2013 by Guildford Manager in Campaigns
Are you getting nuisance phone calls?
At the time Maureen Lipman appeared in TV adverts in the late 1980s encouraging us to use the telephone to stay in touch a ringing telephone often created a sense of excitement as to who the caller might be As Virginia Woolf had observed much earlier The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations […]
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26th July 2013 by Guildford Manager in Campaigns
Travelling abroad? Want to avoid high mobile charges?
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going. (Paul Theroux). As the holiday season reaches its peak, many people, be they tourists or travellers will be going abroad for their annual vacation. While technology in general and the Internet in particular have made the world smaller, accessing the Internet via mobile […]
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23rd July 2013 by Guildford Manager in Campaigns
Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth? Avoid buying a pig in a poke.
In days gone by, if you were buying something good practice was based on expressions like not looking a gift horse in the mouth or taking care to avoid buying a pig in a poke. Presumably dissatisfaction with goods or services provided has been around since stone age cave dwellers traded flint and obsidian (cooled […]
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14th July 2013 by Guildford Manager in Campaigns
Do you mourn the passing of bank managers like Mr Mainwaring?
Do people who mourn the passing of bank managers like Mr Mainwaring (who presided over a branch in Walmington on Sea when he wasn’t commanding the local Dad’s Army platoon) have a point? Although he was pompous.he understood the idea of duty and he applied it to looking after other people’s money as well as […]
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26th June 2013 by Guildford Manager in Campaigns
Baby Boomers Beware
The future is the indefinite time after the present. It is reasonable to assume that its arrival is inevitable because of the existence of time and the laws of physics. Planning for it is therefore important because the future is unavoidable and difficult because no one can say with absolute certainty what the future will […]
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26th June 2013 by Guildford Manager in Campaigns
The Language of Equality
Language is (potentially) powerful. Words can motivate and mystify, inspire and intimidate. It was said of Churchill that he mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. So are attempts to change attitudes by suggesting different ways of saying things worthwhile? Take disability. The way society has typically defined disability in the past […]
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20th February 2013 by Guildford Manager in Campaigns
How much does the internet feature in your life?
We are asking for your help to try and estimate how many of us who cannot or will not use the Internet. Here’s why. Some of us use the Internet a lot – for buying goods and services, communicating with friends, downloading games, films and music and even meeting potential life partners. Others manage to […]
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