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Remember Charlie’s Angels?  We have assembled our dream team to deliver sales process workshops to Nefab, a Swedish-based global company specialising in packaging solutions.  The Angels are (clockwise from top left):  Diane Stephenson, Lindsay Ainger & Leigh Ashton.  (By the way, that’s me (Colin Newbold) in the background, adopting the ‘Charlie’ pose)!  Both Diane and Leigh [...]

Friday 13th January (our going home day, unfortunately!) Fascinating creatures, whales.  As I observed on a whale-watching excursion yesterday, they come up for air every 15 minutes or so, and then dive back into the depths.  A bit like certain Sri Lankan politicians we’ve learned.  They surface whenever the people are looking and carry out [...]

Tuesday 10th January This blog continues the account of our visit to the village of Masmulla yesterday afternoon.  Masmulla is a small village near Matara, which is close to Galle on the south western corner of Sri Lanka. The girl student whose mother so eloquently delivered the closing speech of yesterday morning is one of ten children [...]

Tuesday 10th January This blog recounts our adventures up until lunchtime yesterday… This story is so very difficult to write.  As I do so, there’s a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes.  It kind of makes the travelogue I’ve been writing about our trip up ’til now seem somehow rather trivial.  Until we made [...]

Sunday 8th January   So the Tea Factory hotel gets the thumbs up on every count (style, authenticity, service and food quality) except the weather!  For the two days we were there, we were unable to see past the hotel garden for thick mist. As we left on the Thursday morning and began our decent [...]

Thursday 5th January We woke up to a very sunny start last Monday, as the mist cleared from the Mahaweli Ganga underneath the hotel.  After breakfast, our driver Douglas was ready in reception to take us to the Temple of the Tooth, perhaps Kandy’s most famous landmark, and promptly requested that I went back to [...]

Just to place this trip in perspective… ever since the awful tsunami of 2004, the two Directors of TLC, Nicky Pharoah and Colin Newbold, have been exercising corporate responsibility by supporting a charity in Galle, Sri Lanka.  Together with other UK Friends of Galle, TLC has been donating funds directly to key people in the [...]

Please keep an eye on this post to see how our journey to the TLC chosen charity “UK Friends of Galle” is going.  We arrive there in time to see in the New Year and we will be uploading photos and commentary as the days go by.

Last Wednesday, a large group of TLC Partners came together for our annual conference at the Buxted Park Hotel in East Sussex.  Following a ‘state of the nation’ address from Directors Colin Newbold and Nicky Pharoah, hosting was handed over to Partner David Bamber.  David proceeded to run a World Cafe event where we debated [...]

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