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Monday Morning Blog


Dateline Monday 9th March 2026
Happy Monday morning I hope you are fit and well and that you had a terrific weekend Spring came into its own on Thursday we had a lovely sunny, dry, warm day 16 degrees C in London W10 of course we paid the price the next day when it was dull, grey and cold so far it has stayed that way. Sadly, the war in both Iran and Ukraine seems to have no end in sight one week into the Iran campaign and very disappointingly four years into the Ukraine unjust war being waged by Rus
David J Marks


Dateline Monday 2nd March 2026
Good Monday morning I hope all is well with you and yours on this first Monday in March and the start or meteorological Spring, finally it has stopped raining, and it looks like we will have some decent weather this week. Wow what a weekend that was, the well forecast attack on Iran has started and a day later the Middle East is literally in flames. The airspace has been shut to commercial airlines although to be fair no commercial airline would be flying into the region ev
David J Marks


Dateline Monday 23rd February 2026
Good Monday morning I hope all is well with you and yours and that you are feeling a bit warmer today, warmer than last week. I am told that last week was really cold in the UK. Happily, I did not experience the cold weather as I was enjoying 28 degrees C of lovely warm sunshine whilst attending the SITE Global Conference in Abu Dhabi followed by three days in Dubai on a site inspection with the TRAVCO DMC team the DMC MM and Company has had a representation relationship w
David J Marks


Dateline Monday 9th February 2026
Good Monday morning I hope all is well with you and yours OMG what a few weeks of weather we have had rain, rain cold, cold more rain more cold except last Wednesday morning but only in the morning it was bright, sunny, dry a bit warmer and almost a Spring morning then the weather turned back to cold, grey, rain and overcast I said last week we have to “get through” February and more rain this week, we still have three weeks of it left However lucky for me I am attending
David J Marks


Dateline Monday 2nd February 2026
Happy Monday morning, hello February I always consider February a month to “get through” then we start seeing signs of Spring that is always a good thing So how are you doing this fine Monday morning I hope you are fit and well looking forward to a week of who knows what might happen, I guess all weeks are similar Let’s take a look at what has been happened our Prime Minister Sir Never Here Kir on his travels again to China and Japan, looking at the posed pics with Xi Ji
David J Marks


Dateline Monday 26th January 2026
Happy Monday morning, I hope you are fit and well on this rather chilly January Monday morning, the last Monday in January next Monday it will be February. The question is will the storm covering 40% of the USA head over the Atlantic to visit our green and pleasant land only time will tell if we get “the best from the East” once again It is a year since President Trump took office for the second time it is true to say it has not been a boring year when it comes to the USA.
David J Marks


Dateline Monday 19th January 2026
Happy Monday morning, I hope you are fit and well on this bright and surprisingly warm January Monday morning. Today is the start of the Billionaire, Multi-millionaire and world governments love fest in Davos Switzerland, oh to be a fly on the wall and hear the deals and sub deals going on and how that will effect all of us sometime down the road As I write this Monday morning e mail to you all seems to be “becalmed” Venezuela is off the news. Nothing like that can be
David J Marks


Dateline Monday 12th January 2026
HAPPY NEW YEAR for the last time as I think second week of January it is as they say enough already. I hope you are fit, fine, wonderful, and well, and looking forward to a sterling year in 2026 I am delighted to tell you that our 2026 has seriously kicked off or as James Kent of The J Team DMC Japan said “it is at a gallop already” the team are about to operate a six city event Sapporo-Osaka-Fukuoka-Naha-Tokyo not necessarily in that order, AIM DMC Portugal have today s
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