As with most things I often get roped into, it started with a phone call out of the blue just two days before the event itself. The now retired former communications director of General Motors UK and Rover Group before that, Denis Chick, dropped me a line to ask if I was attending one or both events he had a hand in organising a weekend recently just passed. Denis for the record is quite unique, he has more energy than a Duracell Bunny on speed, talks faster than a recording of J F Kennedy sped up and
