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Category: Creativity

Be more Scout: five suggestions about work (& life) from doggo of my heart

Posted on February 21, 2020 by Brian McGee - Creativity, General, Marketing, Networking

“You’re the best of us,” I often tell Scout as I scratch that velvety ear or rub her under the chest. (Ever met a hound who dislikes that?) Dog-niece looks back at me, modest and dignified. While we were on the sofa recently, the idea for this blog came to me: five reminders about work… Read more »

St Patrick (diplomat, snake chaser) – and the gifts of language from Ireland

Posted on March 12, 2019 by Brian McGee - Creativity, General, Language

What better excuse to celebrate the language and turns of phrase of Ireland than the feast day of St Patrick, patron saint and myth magnet. Beyond the tales of snakes chased into the sea and a herd of swine rustled up for hungry sailors, would you ever spare a thought too for St Brigid, another of… Read more »

Halloween: straddle the broom or shun the revellers? 9 words to savour

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Brian McGee - Creativity, General, Language

Bats in your belfry… Zombies, ghouls and skeletons giving you goosebumps… Halloween is getting increasingly hard to ignore. Fan or not of fright night, leave the eye of newt and lizard’s leg to simmer in the cauldron then join us on a meander around 9 Halloween-themed words. Poetry is included – you decide whether that’s… Read more »

Timber! Construction gets inventive: MultiPly, climate change, Cornwall, #bmcreativeplaces

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Brian McGee - Creativity, General

Wood has potential to disrupt dominance of concrete and steel

Take a moment and look at those trees. Admit it, you feel better already. Calmer, less gnarly, more in tune with the universe. (If you want to hug a trunk to your heart, who are we to judge?) ‘Your neck of the woods’… ‘can’t see the wood for the trees’… ‘dead wood’. If those expressions are anything… Read more »

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