please empty your brain below
I feel that encourages them (some response is better than no response if they have to collect stats on their approaches for their boss), so, like trolls, I just ignore them and press the delete button.
As for Bishop's Gate, how many gates are there in London and could you do random ones?
If you don't reply to the offers saying "No thanks", then you remain on their contact lists as a potential target and keep getting emails offering dubious offers as an inducement to offer them unpaid publicity.
Worst are the contact list database peddlers - once you are on their systems, it can be a right pain to get off again.
Hmmm, tough call.
Almost everyone has their price. DG doesn't, I don't, but there aren't too many of us around in this media-driven, faceless Facebook encouraged, attention-span-of-a-gnat, vacuous world.
Richard you "PR"
dg writes: I don't promote stuff if prompted.
That's the key thing.
Assuming, perhaps, that all readers were male, it also suggested one should obtain a jacket and tie, shorthand pad and pen, and make weekly visits to the local library. Once there the reader should consult the "Investors Chronicle & Stock Exchange Gazette", copy down the location and times of all forthcoming shareholder meetings in the City for the following week and attend as many as they wished.
Shareholder meetings, AGMs, etc would be most often held between 10am and 3pm Monday to Friday and, at each meeting, there would be generous supplies of freshly cut sandwiches, cakes, tea, wine, beer and "condiments". Posing as either a journalist or shareholder one could attend several shareholder meetings each day and, with deep pockets, obtain enough provisions to keep you and your friends fed for the remainder of the day. High profile funerals (and their wakes/receptions afterwards) were another source of free refreshment.
The really enterprising characters even had business cards printed and claimed to work for fictional publications such as The Forest Gate Recorder or Le Monde de Nantes. Thus armed (the business card) they would join bona fide journalists on "Jollies" such as you describe in your post. The Jollies were invariably organised by super posh PR ladies who were indifferent to their clients and had gigantic budgets to hand.
Soon after I became a bona fide journalist I tired of these Jollies and "free" lunches and yearned to be left alone, to write.
But it is encouraging to know that the Freebies and Jollies remain available. I hope, given these austere times, that needy and enterprising people avail themselves of these wonderful perks (along with organisations such as Freegle). It is one of the benefits of living in London and could, perhaps, be a valid subject for a posting, (perhaps by someone more venal and with fewer scruples than our incorruptible DG.)
Depending on how you define "gate" gives you a different answer.
The smallest number is 6 - the original Roman gates of the City. A broader defintion of anything that is or was a gate or has "gate" in the name gives at least 24 places:
Aldersgate
Aldgate
Barnet Gate
Billingsgate
Bishopsgate
Broadgate
Cripplegate
Dowgate
Forest Gate
Greengate
Highgate
Holborn Bar
Lancaster Gate
Ludgate
Marks Gate
Moorgate
New Cross Gate
New Southgate
Newgate
Notting Hill Gate
Posterngate (Tower of London)
Southgate
Temple Bar
Tower Gateway
Although finding enough to write about some of these would be a challenge.
He has no idea who I am or what I do, and I have never approached him for feedback. However, his insight has been invaluable to me and those I work with. Very useful indeed.
If what you do or who you work for is interesting enough, worthy of criticism, - both productive and negative - or heaven forbid, praise - he'll find it by himself. If it isn't, don't bother. And as for PRs - AARRGGHHHHHH!!!!!
I shall attempt to carry on writing about your pieces of work, whatever they are.
(it must be that transport-related thing, mustn't it?) (unless it's that other non-transport-related thing)
http://www.wilsonwilliamsgallery.com/diamondgeezer.htm
( but if someone from the gallery asked you to visit would you go ?
I saw some of the photos on BBC site.
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but if I had been from the gallery would you deliberately not go ?
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