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Me, Mia & Natasha’s Sofa

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Cheeky Mia became the first Rottweiler to take a seat on Natasha Kaplinsky’s sofa. She behaved herself, as she always does when on TV, and didn’t trump once. Note my ‘Rescue Me’ by DogsBlog T-shirt. I am lucky enough to have a limited edition, one-of-a-kind sample and it attracted a lot of interest from some [...]

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Chloe on Camera

Testing a new camera and I appear to have actually taken a photo of Chloe were she doesn’t look like a simpleton (which she isn’t, she just insists on taking photos like one). Chloe examines something:

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BBC Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour

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I’m trying to gather all my press clippings in one place so I can have a record of them when the day comes that all media refuse to speak to me and my life becomes a shell of an existence no longer defined by the absurd notion that I carry about with me that because [...]

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Pink Dog Poo

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Apparently….. It is the scourge of communities across Scotland and beyond, and no council has escaped censure for failing to clean up its act. Now one local authority has unveiled a novel solution to the problem of dog dirt – spraying it bright pink in a bid to shame guilty owners. But, according ‘Ryan O’Mara’, [...]

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Radio Nottingham Paper Review

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MPs expenses, a council spending £5,000 to prosecute a lady for a single sweet wrapper that fell out of her car, a postal worker complains about a 7lb kitten and a speed camera that has illegally fined motorists to the tune of £1.5m. Plus the obligatory dig at UK’s dangerous dogs laws!

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News Hounds

Today I received a box from the USA. It contained my book. My first ever forray in to the world of writing for a publisher who wasn’t, well, me! It’s been probably about a year since the book was completed, so unlike when the magazine comes back from the printer and the fatigue of working [...]

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BBC Working Lunch

An interesting day. Filming for BBC Working Lunch programme – to air in a couple of weeks – discussing online business, the digital revolution and how to make money out of the WWW. Probably put a good 3 hours of filming in. That will end up as 3 minutes! Yesterday I did some filming (again [...]

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Business Strategy; is it THIS Simple?

No matter where your business happens to be, looking at how you develop and execute your strategy how do these five questions help you solidfy your ideas and plan? Companies small and large can develop a compelling strategy by answering five key questions. What does the playing field look like? What are our rivals up [...]

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Governor Schwarzenegger to Terminate Books

Well, not quite! But he is proposing that schools begin to wean themselves off the ‘old-fashioned’ text book and move toward a culture of digital or online learning. Writing in the San Jose Mercury, the Governator says; Today, our kids get their information from the Internet, downloaded onto their iPods, and in Twitter feeds to [...]

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K9 Magazine Finds a New Home

No, I haven’t decided to abandon it, tied to the gates of a dog (magazine) shelter. It’s going to have a new online home. In 2001 we launched K9 Magazine dot com. In all the years we’ve been building and promoting websites, K9 Magazine’s was/is probably the one we’ve spent the most time on and [...]

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