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What it’s like to live in the real Downton Abbey

More 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, 2020

What it’s like to live in the real Downton Abbey

Jun 6, 2020

MarkMcArthurChristie

How Nick became Santa: A Christmas story

December 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, 2019

Dec 17, 2019

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Why I don’t care whether or not you like it

I’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, 2019

Dec 17, 2019

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The $18m watch they couldn’t give away

Give 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, 2019

The $18m watch they couldn’t give away

Dec 7, 2019

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It’s the small choices that matter

Back 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, 2019

It’s the small choices that matter

Oct 30, 2019

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Why starting to write is the worst way to start writing

When 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, 2019

Why starting to write is the worst way to start writing

Sep 22, 2019

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None 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, 2019

None of the gear…

Sep 21, 2019

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The 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, 2019

The smell of coffee, jasmine and two-stroke oil.

Sep 21, 2019

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When a watch tells more than the time

Watches, perhaps because they are so much more personal than almost any other artefact, have a knack of telling stories that bring the…

Sep 20, 2019

When a watch tells more than the time

Sep 20, 2019

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Why you need to sack the dead bloke who’s running your organisation

You need to fire the bloke who’s running your organisation.

Sep 20, 2019

Why you need to sack the dead bloke who’s running your organisation

Sep 20, 2019

MarkMcArthurChristie

MarkMcArthurChristie

Writer. Managing Director at Rubuss. Allergic to corpspeak. Fond of old watches, old bikes, old wine and old airfields. http://MMCMusings.com

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