by Nikki Vallance | Jan 16, 2016 | Uncategorised |
Firm Foundations Some followers of the Phoenix Quest appear to possess expertise in the building trade and offer ‘useful’ advice: ‘Expect the worst.’ ‘The timescales will overrun.’ ‘The budget will blow.’ Since these Doubting Thomases do not have access to a crystal...
by Nikki Vallance | Jul 6, 2015 | Uncategorised |
Room with a View The feature photograph is not quite the Florentine view of E. M Forster’s River Arno and this post is not to be confused with that story, nor the 1980’s Merchant Ivory classic film adaptation of his Edwardian tale, A Room with a View. Of the ever...
by Nikki Vallance | Jun 9, 2015 | Uncategorised |
Blue Sky Reality Today is one of those days of Blue Sky reality. The Blue Sky dreaming used to stretch my vision to a vanishing point; always drawing me towards the goal; always just out of reach of my fingertips. No more. After many years of imagining and several...
by Nikki Vallance | Jun 9, 2015 | Uncategorised |
Pots of Money Following the late August departure of the lovely ladies in my last Phoenix Quest post, I left you pondering the question of budget, or rather its pots of money definition. You may be suspecting some kind of overspend or major unforeseen issue, requiring...
by Nikki Vallance | Nov 30, 2014 | Uncategorised |
Somewhat belatedly, for those reasons life throws at you, here is the next instalment of the Phoenix Quest. It may seem a little incongruous to be recounting events which took place last summer, when the sky was blue and air was deliciously warm. All too quickly the...