вЂњSeekвЂќ was a euphemism for вЂњyou are being transferredвЂќ and after a perfunctory interview I became one of 960 CAвЂ™s In DPGвЂ™s London Office.ДЄfter a couple of months I was called into my managerвЂ™s office (a scary event вЂ“ I thought I was going to be fired) after lunch on a Monday and вЂњaskedвЂќ if I would go to Edinburgh and perform a вЂњpurchase investigationвЂќ for one of our clients.

In the summer of 1964 I was вЂњtoldвЂќ by the provincial firm of Chartered Accountants (CPAs) that I worked for in Brighton that I should вЂњseekвЂќ employment in the City with Deloitte Plender Griffiths & Co (aka DPG or Dolittle Plunder and Grabit). This is another chemobrain recollection induced this time by listening on my Zune to the musical Cats. If you have any comments or complaints about this blog please address them to me, Tony Phillips ( The responsibility for everything herein is mine. I have, alas, grown old but definitely have not grown up.

I am blessed with four great kids with whom I have had great adventures. My torso reveals my other love - food and chocolate. Webmaster) have compiled a history of the railroads that operated along the Mendocino Coast - you can find it at. I am the Mendocino Coast Model Railroad & Historical Society's historian and with enormous help from my friend Roger Thornburn (the blog's I am an avid reader of arcane books, have an eclectic collection of nearly 10,000 pieces of music and am a train nut - I love real ones and all types of model ones. Wife Sarah and I moved to a rural part of Fort Bragg, California in 2000 to enjoy our retirement. My name is Tony Phillips, born on Robbie Burns Day in 1943 in Brighton, England.

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