I recently wrote a feature for PRmoment magazine about PR professionals’ biggest failures https://www.prmoment.com/my-biggest-failure-and-how-it-helped-my-pr-career. This is supposed to be an uplifting feature about what you can learn from failure. As I collected the list of PRs’ disasters, it wasn’t easy to hold on to my own self esteem. Because nearly each and every one of…

I know what happens after you die. I know because I have died. You have probably heard about near-death experiences, they always follow the same format. You go through a tunnel towards a light, at the end of the tunnel people who have passed are waiting for you. Your parents perhaps. They tell you it…

My last blog was rather brief (and all the better for it), but not very positive. As I have been asked to give a motivational speech at a charity event, I thought I should try a little harder to be positive. So here are three things perking me up right now. Reality TV Now is…

I was thinking of making this the first line of a poem: “My get up and go has got up and gone, I am deflated, dispirited – I’m simply no fun”. However, that is as far as I got, because, as I have made absolutely clear, my get up and go has got up and…

I have been asked to do some interviews, and it is important to answer questions in a way that makes me look good, rather than bad. I am afraid I am not that good at this. Here are some of the questions I have been asked and my terrible answers: Q1. Why should anyone buy…

We have just adopted two rescue Burmese cats. They have now taken over the house. They have ascertained that the number one cat slave is my husband, Julian, of whom they make constant demands. Julian now sleeps with his head at a very strange angle, because there is a cat (Aphra) sleeping on the middle…

My tennis partner Paul says: “If Daney can play tennis, ANYONE can play tennis.” Now, I am not a very good tennis player, but I do enjoy playing and I have found other people who are happy to play with me. Well, happy to beat me anyway. So now I am delighted to be publishing…

Some people are wise enough not to make new-year resolutions, but I’m not one of them. This year I have two, and I am doing the first one right now. Writing my blog. Sorry about that, but you don’t have to read it, you know you should be doing something else. Don’t you care about…

I am easily the most popular person in my office. I am also the most attractive, the funniest and the most talented. The most successful, the cleverest, yet surprisingly the most modest. You can also be top dog in your office, the secret is to be the ONLY person there. So if you want to be the best…