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Adam is a lecturer, trainer and writer. He's been a blogger for over 20 years, and a journalist for more than 30. He lectures on audience strategy and engagement at City, University of London.
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This is a guest post by Tim Relf, a former journalistic colleague who also
writes under the name TR Richmond [https://twitter.com/trrichmondbooks].
His new novelWhat She Left
[http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0718179366/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&
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Iβm back at work, nose to the grindstone, and catching up on what our
ever-growing stable of bloggers has been up to while I was offline and out of
mind. And, while rambling through our rural