At the moment I'm working on a variety of projects with clients - literally from start-up to exit. What's interesting is the way things rarely turn out as you expect.

Life is an odd thing. We decide that we know what we know and we settle into that. Well, maybe you don't but I did. I'm fighting that a lot now.

A moral dilemma! Not a big one on the scale of robbing banks or fiddling expenses but a dilemma nonetheless.

Well, it's been a while since the last blog and the reason for that is one of those mysterious tricks that life plays on us.

I met a great chap recently. He runs a successful business, has done for 20 years, and works with global businesses. He knows his onions. He knows his onions so well that big corporates use his company to improve their profits. Nice.

An interesting series of happenings in the last few days. Much as I hate Americanisms, the phrase 'Walk the walk as well as talk the talk' is pretty self-explanatory.

I read a wonderful article in The London Paper this week, written by a recent graduate bemoaning the abuse of graduates in the workplace now, in times of few jobs and limited opportunities.

OK, it was designed to hit all the hotspots - greedy bankers out of touch with the real world of small business. And it was no doubt edited to keep all the nasties in place and entertain - I'm not sure that cleaning toilets and milking cows

Today we read that the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, now thinks that the recession is deeper and will last longer than first thought.

There is no doubt that losses from the City have not stopped. The big, swathing redundancies seem to have slowed but it's not over by a long chalk and, more importantly, for some ex-City workers, it never will be over.