MarkMcArthurChristieWhat it’s like to live in the real Downton AbbeyMore than 30,000 tourists walked past my kitchen window in 2019. But looking out this morning I can see the stone of the old Grammar…Jun 6, 2020Jun 6, 2020
MarkMcArthurChristieHow Nick became Santa: A Christmas storyDecember 18th. Nick Whitelock sat at his desk by the window and looked out as the cold, winter rain tracked its way down the pane. “Sleet…Dec 17, 2019Dec 17, 2019
MarkMcArthurChristieWhy I don’t care whether or not you like itI’ve not worked as an advertising copywriter since June 2013. I’m rather relieved about this. A recent Twitter post about difficult clients…Dec 17, 2019Dec 17, 2019
MarkMcArthurChristieThe $18m watch they couldn’t give awayGive a watchnerd the keys to Marty McFly’s De Lorean and you’d have a whole different film. Instead of all that faffing about with the…Dec 7, 2019Dec 7, 2019
MarkMcArthurChristieIt’s the small choices that matterBack in 2017, the headteacher at a local school, St Birinus in Oxfordshire, invited me to speak to some of his students. I talked to them…Oct 30, 2019Oct 30, 2019
MarkMcArthurChristieinThe StartupWhy starting to write is the worst way to start writingWhen I talk to people about how to write at work, I’ll set them a writing task and get them started. I get them to put down the keyboard…Sep 22, 2019Sep 22, 2019
MarkMcArthurChristieNone of the gear…I was lucky enough to be 550 meters up, at the top of Bozburun Tepesi. It was just before sunset and the resin from the pine forests mixed…Sep 21, 2019Sep 21, 2019
MarkMcArthurChristieThe smell of coffee, jasmine and two-stroke oil.As I sit here in Dalyan in Mugla, waiting for my molten-hot Turkish coffee to cool to a temperature that won’t induce third degree burns…Sep 21, 2019Sep 21, 2019
MarkMcArthurChristieWhen a watch tells more than the timeWatches, perhaps because they are so much more personal than almost any other artefact, have a knack of telling stories that bring the…Sep 20, 2019Sep 20, 2019
MarkMcArthurChristieWhy you need to sack the dead bloke who’s running your organisationYou need to fire the bloke who’s running your organisation.Sep 20, 2019Sep 20, 2019