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Tag: 2016

Belief · Business · Family · The Introvert

Crowns

I haven't had much time to write over the last few months... But in the meantime, there have been so many blog posts I have wanted to write, but just haven't been able to put fingers to keys. My hope is that, unless the momentum dies out from…

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Belief · Business · Life Stories

Order Overload

It's been too long. And for those of you who know me, you'll know why. Things have been crazy busy at sholdstock towers over the last few weeks as our LEGO Minifigure Caricature business received its biggest ever boom in the build-up to Christmas (pun intended!). We're thrilled…

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Technology

Sharers and Archivers

Social Media. It's been called many things. Solved many problems. Created just as many. But one thing's for sure, it's not going anywhere. It popped up not to long ago and doesn't look like it's going to loose momentum in my lifetime. I think it's only been recently…

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Business

Career Paths aka Living The Dream

I am amazed at the amount of people who don't have jobs. And this isn't a post moaning or pointing the figure at anyone or any governing body. It is, however, a direct revelation based on today's culture. So if I'm pointing the finger at anyone - it's…

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Parenthood

Car Trains, and the importance of rails

I imagine you think I've lost it. ANOTHER post with a kids show as the photo. Don't worry, this has precious little to do with the awesomeness that is Ruff-Ruff, Tweet and Dave (the kids show pictured at the top of this post). But it did serve as…

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Family · Film

Let It Go

This post will, as the name suggests, start and end with a reference to the ever-growing regularity in my life of Frozen (the Disney movie). As a father of two girls now, barely a day goes by where I haven't seen, heard or had to play with characters…

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Belief

The Unknown made Known

I love and struggle with the unknown. I serve a God who us unseen, believe in a future that I can't see and base my entire life upon a book that claims to be the literal Word of God. That's a lot of belief in the unknown. None…

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Life Stories · Technology

Spammalot

We live in a fantastic age. The age of smartphones, instant communication and virtual mailboxes. But with every development comes the annoyances. And with modern technology - it's spam. The rise of the spammer has been a gradual dripping tap to everyone with access to communication. But here…

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