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Monday Morning Blog


Dateline Monday 29th June 2026
Good morning happy Monday I hope all is well with you and that you are happy that things have cooled down somewhat. For me I love a scorcher although having to put on a black tie dinner suit for the Thursday evening Micebook Awards dinner was a bit of a challenge, the only compromise I made was on that occasion I took an air conditioned Uber to the Rosewood Chancery Hotel in Grosvenor Square, under normal weather conditions I would have got the tube to Bond Street which is fo
David J Marks


Dateline Monday 15th June 2026
Good morning awesome people of the conference and incentive industry I hope all is well with you OK as I always do I have to start my Monday morning e mail with a weather update (it’s the law) one word dreadful, two weeks ago we had four maybe five days of awesome weather my type of weather hot and very hot, sunny 30+degrees C what’s not to like, then we pay the price of the weather we have had for the past two weeks cold wet and rain I recon every day if I didn’t have the
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Dateline Monday 27th April 2026
Happy sunshiny SPRING Monday morning I hope you are fit and well and that you had a terrific weekend. First let’s discuss the weather, in the sunshine yummm very nice when the sun is behind the clouds and the wind is blowing it’s a bit chilly but there is warmth in the Spring Sunshine. Who said “April showers?” so far April has been a totally bone-dry month, what is going on besides climate change? Although having said that with the clear skies and no cloud cover it has been
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Dateline Monday 13th April 2026
Happy sunshiny SPRING Monday morning I hope you are fit and well and that you had a terrific weekend. First let’s discuss the weather, in the sunshine yummm very nice, when the sun is behind the clouds and the wind is blowing, we are back into serious winter temperatures, we still have another month to go. There is an old English and Scottish proverb “Ne’er cast a clout till May be oot” it is an advising not to remove your winter clothing until the end of May or until the ha
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Dateline Monday 23rd March 2026
Happy SPRING Monday morning I hope you are fit and well and that you had a terrific weekend. To be honest I missed chatting to you last week, but I think the decision taken of reducing the Monday morning e mail to twice a month is a good idea. One of my regular readers sent a lovely e mail THANK YOU Yvonne saying only twice a month is simply not good enough, sorry Yvonne. Spring came into its own last week, we are having a few nice sunny, warm days although we must not be l
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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
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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
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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
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