Tony Frobisher
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Love What You Do
Love What You Do This lockdown is a bit of an inconvenience. Businesses closed for the foreseeable future, people unable to meet up, have a coffee and a slice of cake together in a favourite coffee shop. Even go and have a haircut. (I am cutting my own few remaining hair strands at home, as…
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Splendid Isolation
It’s been a while since my last update. Too long and much going on. Visits to Indonesia and the completion of writing my first novel, called The Shadows That Sang. Based in Java, Indonesia, a story of two brothers whose world is thrown into chaos when a volcanic eruption destroys their village. Which is how…
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Resolutions – The Verb Year
Resolutions – The Verb Year (Verbs Are Doing Words) Be kind Think selflessly Give to others Need not want Waste less Spend less Listen more Say more Talk less Write more Read more Communicate better Sit in silence Embrace quiet Welcome solitude Think more Overthink less Worry less Appreciate people Switch off social media Notice…
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Business English is Boring – Apparently
Today we are going to learn some language for meetings….. A collective groan fills the classroom. The teacher inwardly sighs, wishing he were somewhere far more stimulating, like Lidl. The students head fall with an audible smack as they hit the table, dreading the next turgid hour and a half of ‘stuff they don’t want…
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The Beauty of Accents
Gud afterrnuun. Wilcum to Norn Iron. I come in PRAISE of accents, not to slate them. Wait. Before you start shouting at me for vilifying the Northern Irish accent, let me state on record, that is one of my favourite accents in the British Isles. Together with Scouse and Geordie (for the uninitiated, people from…
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