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Dec 3, 2016Michael Carty

#7Songs2016 (1): The shadow of the Thin White Duke

If you had to pick seven songs from this year or yesteryear that have meant the world to you in 2016, what would they be? I so enjoyed the #7songs “challenge” last year that I thought I’d try my own twist on it this year. Hence #7songs2016. Let’s kick it off with a beautiful jazz […]

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May 29, 2016Michael Carty

Bowie, change, chance and bottling success

How can you bottle success? How can you sustain a winning streak into ongoing triumph? In most cases, the answer is not to be found in seeing what worked before, extrapolating the recipe for success, and repeating. It’s about change and the taking of chances. I love this simple definition of success from Dior Couture […]

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Jan 17, 2016Jan 11, 2019Michael Carty

After the snow, the silence

There’s just something transportingly beautiful about waking to find it’s snowed overnight. The world is still, silent and white. This morning (Sunday 17 January 2016, also my seventh Twitterversary) is the first day on which any snow has settled in the nearly 18 months since I moved here. It was an honour and a delight […]

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Dec 12, 2015Michael Carty

#7songs: Time to lie down and be counted?

If you had to pick seven songs over seven days, what would they be? Music is all about where it takes you. Why not let it take you somewhere brand new? I recently shared seven songs that mean the world to me over seven days. I tweeted links to all seven, and have blogged about […]

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