You will probably know that I'm here as an administrator because I am Mike's other half, we have been engaged now for three years.

What you might not know is the fact that I run my own virtual company which provides business services to small and medium sized businesses, anywhere at all, called >

Peninsular Business Services Ltd

There is also a gateway site for clients in Wales who are looking at outs

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And here is my first Mountain contribution for the new season

The Snow Approaches

The snow approaches
My pulse it quickens
I feel the air
The snow it thickens
The slopes are distant
But not for long
For soon my skis will sing their song

From on high I swoop on down
I can see a distant town
The crisp sound from beneath my feet
Brings me much joy
The feeling's sweet

I stop beside the piste to meet
My friends for lunch
We drink and eat
When I am high in this great land
I feel that God is… Continue

A Reflection on the last 10 years and Festive Greetings too!

It’s a decade since The Millenium
And I am looking back
At some wasted years this century
There’ve been many, some quite black

The IT industry gorged itself
On fears of the dreaded bug
But, when not much happened of any note
We all gave just a shrug

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The Mentor’s Reflective Lament

You play your part
In someone’s start
Though you don’t know if
They have the heart
You watch for sparks
For inspiration
And fan their flames
With good intention

They come to life,
Burst into flame, you try their ardour to contain
You steer them through the times of doubt
They then grow, they then attain
Their spirit and their drive they show
Though all along you do not know
If all the effort, mutual trust
Will ever bring bring you more than dust

It’s very hard
A… Continue

"Can you tell me how to network?"
I hear the old man say
"I've been in business all these years
And now its gone away".

"They tell me I should Twitter
and get myself connected
But every time I try it
I'm inevitably rejected".

This new-fangled way of doing things
Is really not that strange
It only takes a little thought
Your ways to re-arrange

If you were at The Chamber
And someone just burst in
To tell you just how good they were
You might pause, then simply grin

The way you've always done i… Continue

As December is upon us
I thought I ought to ponder
What it is that makes this festive time
A season of such wonder

"Do you dread or just relish it?"
I ask myself each day
The answer is dependent
On my current state of play

"A very cynical attitude"
I hear some of you say
But I'm afraid its true for all of us
At the ending of the day

The poor are ever with us
And this season is not theirs
We need to spread prosperity
Not just mention them in prayers

Last week's ....
The Dogs they had a party
They came from near and far
Some arrived by aeroplane
But most by motorcar
They came into the lobby
And signed the visitor's book
And each dog hung his asshole
Upon a separate hook.

One Dog was not invited and this aroused his ire, so …
He stepped into the meeting place and loudly shouted "FIRE"
The Dogs got so excited they had no time to look
And each dog grabbed an asshole from off the nearest hook

Now this is a sad, sad story
For it is very sore
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Two young guys came out of Uni and joined the fastrack partner programme at a well-known London accounting practice. They were sent on a six week intensive residential training course where they had evenings off but couldn't leave the hotel, let alone go home, for the whole 6 weeks.

Coming towards the end the time one said to the other, "I'm really pee'd off with you. Every night for nearly 6 weeks, we've been coming in this bar and you've taken off with a female. I haven't had even a bite i… Continue

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster… Continue