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For me, 2014 has been about opening doors, stepping boldly and creatively into unfamiliar environments, celebrating success and making a few mistakes. At MSL our year started with a team meeting on Thursday 9 January. We talked animatedly about 2013 and discussed what we wanted to achieve in 2014. We mused on how our brand...
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Now that the Christmas period has definitely come to an end, it is time to look back and reflect on this years festivities and avoid looking at the waist line. The clinking of champagne glasses, the roars of laughter and the piles of shredded wrapping paper, Christmas and New Year is the time to relax,...
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Day 9 in 2014 – how many New Year’s resolutions have you said goodbye to already? I’ll admit, it didn’t even take three days before my detox was over and I was back to raiding the biscuit tin – but then again, I didn’t try all that hard either. But one resolution that I AM...
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Each new year beckons the start of exciting promise, and it is these aspirations which keeps us all propelling forward.  Of course there will always be the occasional hurdle, but these unexpected challenges make us stronger, and on reflection, give us important life lessons which we learn from and take forward. While we all hope...
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Everyday we are meant to do something which scares us, and in less than a week this will certainly be true, as I will be stepping onto the French Alps snow for my taste of skiing. And at the age of 23 it is safe to say that I am terrified. Gone are my fearless...
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Following style bloggers I found that most of them want to be so creative that sometimes they forget that simple can also be chic. Most  fashion magazines are also so inspirational that editors forget that we need to dress on daily basis. At seven in the morning, when your alarm rings, the vision of your...
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It’s finally New Years Eve, and I bet like me, you’re once again hatching a last minute plan to try and better last years night of celebrations. While we are all under no illusion that tonight is one of the most hyped up days of the year, and you’ll no doubt wake up on the...
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“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.” Charles Lamb Old Year’s Day, New Years Eve, Saint Sylvester’s Day: call it what you will but regardless of language or location,...
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So your friends and family have been and gone, the presents have all been opened and that warm and fuzzy festive feeling has disappeared all to quickly, leaving a desolate emptiness in its wake. But please, try not to be too disheartened this Boxing Day because here at Semple we are firm believers in PMA...
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The New Year is a wonderful time. Fresh hope and new beginnings linger like the smell of freshly baked bread. We are positively drunk with the promise of new possibilities, buoyant against the tide of all that awaits us in the year ahead.  But, we are hardly going to change overnight and that’s why that...
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