I dedicate today’s blog to the inimitable Damian Purves! First because I know he Can translate the title and second because he has been a good friend and an enormous help throughout the years.

If I show up when I said I would, speak some version of the king’s English, return calls within a day and offer a professional, non-coffee or ketchup-stained quote, I should win 90% of the business. I like those odds.