Saturday football

I am off to the match today, flying over to Liverpool with Euromanx and heading up to Anfield to watch the Liverpool v Middlesborough game. I havent been to Anfield for to watch a game for almost three years now so I am really looking forward to it depsite Liverpools form in the Premiership this [...]

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Absolutley flawless – Afterburner key note speech

As I mentioned in my previous post yesterday, I headed off to the ifs School of Finance Isle of Man lecture at the Manx Museum. I didnt’t know what to expect really and I was very pleasantly surprised.

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Attending the Afterburner Flawless Execution Lecture tomorrow

I am attending the second prestige lecture of the ifs School of Finance Isle of Man tomorrow night at the Manx Museum. The speakers are two former air force flight instructors from the US Air Force ‘Top Gun flight school and they will be presenting their Flawless Execution approach to decision making.Sounds good. Or does it? I’m not [...]

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Golf in need of some help!

I played golf three times this week at Mount Murray. Firstly on Saturday morning, later in the afternoon and a few holes on Sunday. Saturday morning was terrible  -  I do have a witness!The other times there was a marked improvement but nowhere near my best. Need some lessons and plenty of practice!

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Sunset Santon

Sunset Santon (c), originally uploaded by nickopmillion. Another cracking sun set in sunny Santon Isle of Man!

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Not much of a break through for breast cancer!

The word on the manx grape vine is an apparant a fall out between the Isle of Woman committee and the Department of Tourism and Leisure. As I understand it Isle of Woman wanted to register as a Manx Charity after they found Breakthrough Breast Cancer very difficult to work with and Isle of Woman [...]

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So called redevelopment of Douglas Promenade!

Last Friday the new plans to redevelop Douglas promenade were unveiled to a select few (well the manx media), the proposed cost being estimated at more than £10 million pounds! Apparently what I can gather so far is that this will basically entail resurfacing of the roadway from the Sea Terminal to the old Summerland [...]

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Santon road works wearing my patience thin!

I never thought when I started blogging I would write a post on road works but after putting up with over 4 weeks of traffic lights and disruption I am now getting a little fed up. The main exit and entrance road to my estate has been closed to accomodate the road works as part [...]

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Manx Pure Produce on a roll

Lets hope that the local Tesco on Lake Road does a bit more than ‘its every little helps’ motto suggests and really makes a difference when it comes to stocking more locally sourced produce from the islands suppliers. Well done to the minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Phil Gawne for putting the pressure on [...]

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Why can’t we cope with snow?

I dont know what it is about our culture in the UK but we just can’t cope with snow in any shape, form or amount! It’s caused chaos already and it hasn’t really snowed that much. Go to Europe or the US for example and they all seem to cope just fine with several inches or even when [...]

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