Former journo. Now in PR. Director of own company. Charity trustee. I help organisations do communications. Currently working to try and save the planet.
North Yorkshire
Joined January 2009
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Hi @LNER Will train 1S30 be making an additional stop at NTR tonight after 1N29 was cancelled please? The train manager has said nothing nor offered any advice on alternative arrangements for Northallerton passengers. Thanks!
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I’m in a cafe in York. I can’t help but overhear a conversation between two old boys in the corner. They are plotting against Kemi Badenoch. They’ve just said “WE’VE got to get rid of her.” Fortunately they only appear to be armed with a cinnamon bun.
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I rarely post these days but I’ve found an excuse to. High praise to @LNER staff at York station for helping sort a problem on board another train company’s service because that company had no staff to be found anywhere …
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This reminds me of the Postman Pat episode called Foggy Day (or similar). Here’s hoping the driver of my Silly O’Clock train to London has anti-fog eyesight! 😝
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I asked in the restaurant for a “sprinkling of black pepper please.” I was handed a NASA rocket sized pepper mill and left to “get on with it.” 🤣
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Forget the Phantom Raspberry Blower (if you’re old enough you’ll get that Two Ronnies reference). Where I am working today it seems a bigger problem is the Phantom Loo Roll Nicker! I’d best ‘keep ‘em peeled’ for vanishing three-ply sheets.
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OK, so this is scary. I am the post-lunch speaker at the @HelloOrlo #bigsocial2023 event in Birmingham. The popcorn is being distributed so if I am really bad, the audience has something to throw!
ALT An empty auditorium.
My new client isn’t big enough to need its own lanyards so to save losing my allocated door access card, I’ve drafted in an old one from a now defunct and much missed organisation! 😜
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Well, that was unexpected: I’ve just been on @GBNEWS (entirely by accident). I managed to get in the back of the shot as it broadcast live from an event I am attending in Manchester.
This means I am running out of TV channels to appear on. 🤣
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Hmmm, it seems @LNER’s new “we want to make it cheaper for you” single fares-only approach has come off the rails (sorry, I couldn’t resist) before it begins tomorrow. 30/6 single fare from North Yorks to London via LNER website is £149.90 but only £68.20 via TPE or TrainSplit!
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I couldn’t agree more. Fortunately, the CEO I worked with most recently at a district council understood this point and valued communications as a strategic function.
Comms at the top table?
I was pleased to be asked by the @themjcouk to write a piece about why comms should at the often talked about 'top table'
Go Team GivTo! You’ll be awesome.
Givto’s @AlexEllisWhite and @PennyCoulthard are at the @Volunteeroapp summit today and preparing to pitch in the Dragon’s Den! Good luck team #givto
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Hi @DBCargoUK Is there any reason why 60062 ‘Stainless Pioneer’ has been sitting light loco on the down main just south of Northallerton station for five hours now with the engine running? It must be wasting loads of diesel and it’s hardly eco-friendly. Thanks.
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It’s a new month, a new working week (albeit shorter) and for me, a new assignment as I move from the countryside to the coast to take up a head of communications and marketing role. I wonder if team meetings on the beach will be allowed? 😆
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Why on earth is distinctly average local radio breakfast presenter allowed to read the news on Radio 4, let alone do the continuity links? Come on BBC, recruit and develop new talent and voices please.
Slightly surprised this evening to see the Doctor was planning to destroy the Master with the same type of button I had to buy few weeks ago to repair my iron. #DoctorWho
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In honour of the amazing @danslee, I wish to propose a new feature: ‘the view of my working ceiling’! 😝 Here’s the one I am under today.
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