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Winter 2025 Newsletter
Time to wrap things up for another year at Oscar Towers and — I think — it’s fair to say it’s been an interesting, challenging, fun, frustrating, exciting, sad, and happy year..................
Summer 2025 Newsletter
August (in all senses) greetings from teeming Torbaydos (the era of staycations and south coast visitation continues it seems). Apologies for the tardiness of the quarterly message, it’s been quite the year so far.................
Spring 2025 Newsletter
At the risk of tempting contradiction from the deities that organise our meteorological circumstances — they’re a fickle lot — it rather feels like spring has arrived. The days are a bit longer, it hasn’t rained for over 12 hours............
December 2024 Newsletter
In a small break from tradition, this quarter I’m not going to drone on about AI, automation and other related tech things from the realm of data geekdom. Nor will I share endless waffle about database updates, changes and the general movements of the UK Public Sector............
September 2024 Newsletter
I have excuses: writer’s block? The dog ate it? My computer crashed? Too busy helping clients (an oft-seen favourite)? and other such things. I could, in fact (#shamelessplug), blame the production and polish that went into our inaugural School Report...........
June 2024 Newsletter
This edition was due in June, but I blinked, and apparently that month is no longer with us! - In fact, I’d like to say I have even the slightest sense of where spring and the first half of summer went, but my mother instilled a sense of...........
March 2024 Newsletter
It might just be me, but that felt like the longest, coldest and wettest winter ever. Consequently and despite the inevitable influx of holidaying folks to the south coast, I find myself yearning for lighter and warmer days...........
December 2023 Newsletter
Great Scott! (other antarctic explorers are available) it’s nearly Christmas. Not quite sure how that’s happened.........
September 2023 Newsletter
What happened to the English summer? As a resident of the aforementioned fine land it might be predictable to start this quarterly newsletter.........
June 2023 Newsletter
As ever at this time of year, front and centre is Local Government: May 2023 Local Election updates (not to mention the smattering of MP updates........
March 2023 Newsletter
Professionally speaking we’re careering, at what feels like breakneck speed, towards the end of calender Q1. On a more personal level though the advent.......
December 2022 Newsletter
Going to go with a short and snappy one this time. I could pitch that as being intentionally kind on those few that read the quarterly missives in full.......
September 2022 Newsletter
It has become tradition to start with some kind of whimsical story or anecdote. Given the events of the last 12 months – nay 36 – months, these are.......