With the annual leave season starting in earnest over the next couple of weeks and many advisers taking either extended leave or alternatively taking the opportunity to catch up on things not progressed during the calendar year, last week’s post will be the final one until early 2020.
Similarly, the social media contributions by both the View and Matthew will also largely take a hiatus until the New Year as from today.
Thank you to all of those advisers who have read, and particularly those that have taken the time to provide feedback in relation to posts.
Additional thanks also to those who have purchased the ‘Inside Stories – the consolidated book of posts’.
The 2019 edition of this book, containing all posts over the last year, edited to ensure every post is current, indexed and organised into chapters for each key area should be available early in 2020.
Very best wishes for Christmas and the New Year period.
** for the trainspotters, ‘Last Christmas’ (riffed for the title of today’s post) is the Wham! hit from 1986, watch the quintessential 1980s video clip.
PS: & recently I learnt why my first ever girlfriend broke up with me in grade 5 at about this time of the year back in 1986 … at the time I had just spent weeks of pocket money on a 7 inch single (you can google what this is …) by her favourite band Wham and the aforementioned single …
Not stopping to listen to the lyrics focused on the withdrawing of the giving of true love … she broke up with me the very next day …
When sharing the breakup story with my daughters recently and musing how I never understood why she ‘dropped’ me they quickly pointed out the stupidity of my choice of gift. Samantha Curran of Flynn Primary School Canberra (who I have not seen or spoken with since that day in December 1986) – I am sorry.