A chance to cheer the boys in blue; A memory that I will always treasure; Being with my father was a real pleasure.
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Miscellaneous
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield
Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are…
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Events
Crisis, what crisis? How Dermot delivered when needed most
I have been visiting Korea multiple times each year since 1989 and care deeply about its travel retail industry. I am proud of the respect in which we are held there. Our voice was an important one for a sector under legislative attack. Quite simply we had to be there.
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Miscellaneous
You got me singing, even though it all looks grim
“I’m sleeping a lot better too. Last night I slept like a log – I woke up this morning and I was in the fireplace.”
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Miscellaneous
And so it goes
No matter how much I flailed or panicked they could not hear me nor set me free from the bubble that encased me. And then, suddenly, I was up above the surface, bursting to life, panicking, relieved, telling my startled children what I had just experienced.
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Miscellaneous
Welcome to The Moodie Report’s interim bureau (a London hospital)
Yesterday’s under-stated report from The Moodie Report team correctly summed up the situation: I have had major heart surgery in recent days. And as anyone who has been through such treatment knows, it is pretty tough on the body. So I will need to lie low (probably literally) for a few weeks.
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Miscellaneous
Saluting the Walking Wounded, safe behind the wire
Schumann never wrote anything better than ‘Safe behind the wire’, about Philip Thompson, a former President of the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia, who took his own life in 1986.
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People
A tribute to brave, beautiful orange Ollie
This week his family and other loved ones celebrated Ollie’s life. They did that in the most lovely way – by all wearing a splash of orange, Ollie’s favourite colour. And therefore, so do we.
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Miscellaneous
A New Brain for a new year in travel retail
“Make sure,” I concluded, “you buy the person that you love your own equivalent of that green dress – before it’s too late.” It was my own Gordon Schwinn moment.
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Airports
(Mid) Field of Dreams: Build it and they will come
From The Moodie Report’s Interim Abu Dhabi Bureau in December I could look out on an airport. There’s nothing unusual about that for me, I often stay at airport hotels for reasons of convenience. What’s unusual about these views (from my room at the Premier Inn to be precise) is the nature of the airport
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Miscellaneous
So Martin Petchey, do you always drink your duty free gin neat?
Martin probably went through more reshuffles than a dealer at the World Poker Championships but generally survived, professionalism, integrity and, not least, dry wit, intact.
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Airports
Diary of a dispute: Case and coverage closed
Sometimes in publishing there are stories you’d rather not have to write. No matter how neutral your stance and fair your treatment, you know that the subject matter is controversial, perhaps painful to one or more parties.
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Miscellaneous
2015: A Journey’s End and why auld acquaintances will never be forgot
My final Blog of the year does not come from an interim bureau, nor from 35,000 feet. It comes from home in London but it comes also with affection, for your support and your readership throughout a compelling, often tumultuous year.