In Visiting London-6 I mentioned and already wrote about a few seminars that I attended at the LBF. One of these was on the subject of marketing a bookshop. Marketing Your Bookshop was presented by Pe...
As a matter of fact, I’m not in London any longer, I’m back to my rainy Manchester, travelling to Warrington each day for work. There will be a few more chapters in ‘Visiting London&...
As I mentioned in the previous post, I visited several presentations while at the Book Fair. There were actually four of these: Marketing Your Bookshop (16th April)The Internet as a Marketing Tool (17...
It was the year 2000 when I said to one person: ‘Do you realise that all years will now start with “2”? All people who’d gone before this year have got both years starting with...
… at The Hare and Hounds today at 3pm. No doubt I’ll write about it, but at the moment you can read about the meeting here and here. The exterior of the pub can be seen on the left (many t...
The text that you’re about to read was written in late December 2005. It was literally inspired by a TV news report about Prince Charles considering to take on the name George when he eventually...
As I am still new to the world of creating and sharing the media online, I am very puzzled at one thing about YouTube. I know some videos are disabled for embedding, with which I have got no issue. Th...
Like many other people in Manchester tonight, I’ve just returned from the BBC Blogging Workshop. No winds could stop us this time, but no winds were blowing, anyway. The goal of the workshop was...
Here is my attempt to save us all from this depression, be that from mild weather or from rattling winds. The BBC report about radio reshuffle has reminded me of a lovely fairy tale by Hans Christian ...
It looks like this winter Britain and Russia have become inexplicably and inextricably connected by some changes in weather. As you know, I was born and grew up in Moscow. Normally, at this time of th...