Category Archives: Business

Adding shareholder value.

“How do you handle the insanity?”

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Shades

Denise Marsa is The Music Mentor. Her day job would make great fly on the wall reality TV. Here is her pilot teaser to get a network to bite. Slickly produced with some great music as well. Check out her … Continue reading →

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The Candy Man can’t…

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Shades

Today was the last day of the Candyman shop in Morley, located in the former Co-op emporium buildings and ran by the last Co-op Manager, Dennis Fisher. The shop has been there nearly four decades now, selling sweets, cigs, cards … Continue reading →

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Divi Day

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Shades

A local history book was published in Morley back in January, looking back at the golden days of the Co-op. I bought it mostly out of wanting to support local history projects but it considerably exceeded my expectations. The book … Continue reading →

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Woof’s off…

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Shades

A few more photos from Whitby in the Summer. Hover for a narrative, click for a bigger pic.

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One born every minute…

Posted on June 12, 2009 by Shades

A Sucker, that is. On our recent trip to America, we were deceived in various ways three times by enterprising Americans. Each one is worthy of closer analysis. The first one I’ll call the plausible panhandler. A tall, black lady, … Continue reading →

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