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Mystic Rich on his Ashes predictions
Thanks for all the comments on the accurate predictions! I wish I had put some money on winning by lunch and a Freddie 5 wicket haul! Great game, Strauss was proved right in not enforcing the follow on - maybe the press will leave him alone for a while now. ...
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Nigel Thompson's dream takes him to Glasgow
Early start today as off to Gatwick to catch a flight to Scotland. Looking at a couple more sites there but probably for the second group of openings. I just feel that the first store needs to be a bit closer to home so we can keep an eye on ...
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Happy Monday? Richard Crook is predicting one...just
Another day, another week, however this Monday morning has a different feel to it doesn't it? Whatever happens history will be made at Lords today, will England get there first Lords ashes win for over 70 years, or will the Aussies chase down the mammoth 525 to win? Well ...
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Same old England!
Teams as predicted for Lords, we are getting quite good at this! Australia were put to the sword for 3 hours at Lords yesterday as England finally found some batting form. Cook and Strauss putting on 196, before Cook fell for 95. He must have one of the worst conversion ...
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Same place, different me
I was in Euston Station yesterday morning, catching an early train to Holyhead. Nothing too strange about this but it was the first time I had been there since I started working for myself. Previously, I used to catch trains from Euston to the North West almost fortnightly to attend ...
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Why should young people stick with the property industry?
Three weeks ago Amsterdam-based INREV (European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles) organized a two-day Young Professionals Seminar in Barcelona. For me, some of the many takeaways from the event were the following: 1. The dark times are not as dark as they seem...but only for those ...
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Arise Sir Monty...
Wow, what a great test match! We thought the 2005 series would take some beating, but this has to be as good as any of those games. Very similar to the 2005 Old Trafford Test where the Aussies hung on for a draw, this time the boot was on the ...
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Longbridge motors on
There is something a little poignant about visiting Longbridge in Birmingham. It was once an industrial sprawl of 6,000 workers building famous cars such as the Austin Rover and the original Mini – the jewel in the crown of the British car industry. Cars once rolled off the production lines ...
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Former retail agent turns retailer - follow his story here
My name is Nigel Thompson. I am 34 and for the last 12 years, I have been a leasing agent for some of the largest and most valuable shopping centres in the UK working for one of the most respected companies in the business. That was until May this year ...
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Day Two and things are looking...okay
Ok so 336-7 over night, advantage England I say. Great knocks from KP and Colly and especially Prior, but can't help but feel we could and should have done better. Lots of criticism at the ground and in the bars of Cardiff last night over kPs dismissal, but I say ...
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Ashes fever gets underway with Drivers Jonas' Richard Crook
The Ashes is what Test cricket is all about - so says Sir Ian Botham - and who am I to disagree! The idea of an ashes cricket blog was one of those late night Mipim conversations held with the PW journalists, yet unlike many of those conversations in ...
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The comedy's over and I can relax. For now.
‘How did it go?’ I was asked that a lot on Thursday morning. If you’ve read my past blogs then you’ll know why. If you haven't, it’s because on Wednesday night I got up to tell jokes at the first night of the Property Comic, run by the Property Merchant ...
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Wimbledon boosts 'working from home' brigade
Is it sheer coincidence that the start of Wimbledon has coincided with even more of my industry colleagues opting to “work from home”? In happier times, there was simply too much work to do for this mass idling to have been tolerated. Twice this week, I have heard the televised ...
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I've finished my training. Next stop: showtime.
I’ve finished my training. Now I just have to wait. It's only two days away, or enough time for Jack Bauer to save the world from terrorists twice. I couldn’t usually call the back-to-back gigs I did this weekend ‘training’ but I’ll make an exception given that the Property Comic ...
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What DO you do when you're unemployed?
‘So, what do you do?’: the most dreaded question for anyone who is unemployed. It’s a question that must regularly knock you off guard. Whenever you are introduced to someone new, it’s going to be one of the first things you’re asked. But does what you do – or not ...
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The property 'bust' have we seen it before?
Edward Jones is a YEP committee member and solicitor who specialises in advising the Property industry. Find out more about the 1st Friday Club Looking back in history there is an 18 yr cycle of boom and bust, with a less severe "dip" at 9 years. In June 2009 we ...
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Why does property have better comedy connections than me?
It turns out that property people have better comedy connections than I do. I met two of them at drinks with King Sturge last Thursday. I'll come to that. My best comedy connection is rubbish, but I'll share it anyway. In January, I performed at the Comedy Cafe in Shoreditch ...
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Richard Heap prepares to take to the stage in The Property Comic
I had my first nightmare about it last Tuesday. In two weeks I’m taking to the stage in a bid to entertain the property industry at the first night of The Property Comic, the comedy event by the Property Merchant Group and Property Week for Land Aid ( http://www.pmguk.com/comic/ ). ...
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“Have you ever met Alison Carnwath?”
“Have you ever met Alison Carnwath?” Doing my socialite rounds of the property industry over the last fortnight, nearly every woman I have hob-nobbed with has popped this question. Why? Well, for those of you who have been hiding under a rock, Ms Carnwath is the fearsome new chairman of ...
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MPs knew how to live 40 years ago...
As the MPs’ expenses scandal reaches the fifth of – only the Telegraph knows – how many weeks, I reflect on parliamentarians’ living arrangements when I began reporting Parliament 40 years ago. They either lived like the haute bourgeoisie or like students. In the last year of the Labour government, ...
