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I lit the fire last night for the first time this winter.

We use one of those long matches you can use for lighting fires, but as I struck it against the box, it broke about 25% from the striking end.

I hate that, I hate wasting a match like that, so that I can’t use it. So I carefully cobbled it back together again, struck it carefully and lit one little piece of fire at one end of the pile of paper and wood.

The match was still going so I lit another and then I had two little pieces of fire, one at each end that I could use if the match broke again or fell off and then the match became useful again.

When the broken end of the match fell off, I began to relight it using the fire that had already lit throughout other parts of the fire.

This is always a good strategy.

Even if your match doesn’t break, it can go out, so the first thing you need to do is to set a little fire and then quickly set little fire’s somewhere else and then once you have two fires, it doesn’t matter if your match goes out because you can always go back to one of the original piles and rule out the match.

On Friday I’m at the bank, it was supposed to be a feedback session after I had been disappointed with some levels of service that I had received and so I had the opportunity to meet with one of the senior guys who sits in the credit committee for the bank to feedback my difficulties and issues.

Instead of going head to head and face to face in proving a point, I decided to build some fires (made for later, maybe not).

By the time I had taken the gentleman in question to look around the new practice and to talk about the possibilities I had lit some significant new fires, which will burn for a while so should any of my matches go out, I might have somewhere else to turn.

By Colin Campbell on 15/10/2019, 18:00