Category: Features

Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Getting our desserts

30 July 2015 Getting our desserts by Chin Chin I don’t know how the directors of Booking.com spend their holidays, but they must be rather tedious if the approach taken by their website is anything to go by. A couple of years ago I decided to stay at Montreuil–sur-Mer for the first night of a… Continue reading Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Getting our desserts

Issue 13: 2015 07 30: The fat lady has gone

30 July 2015 The fat lady has gone by J R Thomas The opera, they say, ain’t over until the fat lady sings. But that was then, this is now. The fat lady, fans of Covent Garden may remember, is no longer acceptable on the Royal Opera House stage. As far back as 2004, Deborah… Continue reading Issue 13: 2015 07 30: The fat lady has gone

Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Communication the modern way

30 July 2015 Communication the modern way; how to really get in touch. by Lynda Goetz When I went out the other day, carrying my mobile (as usual), it sprang into life (as usual) as I left the village. It seemed that a number of people had been trying to get in touch. Where I… Continue reading Issue 13: 2015 07 30: Communication the modern way

Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Credit Reference Agencies

23 July 2015 Credit reference agencies – a modern necessity or a modern nightmare? by Lynda Goetz A friend of mine has been tearing his hair out for the last 10 days. The reason? An attempt to get a buy-to-let mortgage for a small property which he had originally decided to buy outright, but then concluded it… Continue reading Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Credit Reference Agencies

Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Whatever you do, don’t mention the Euro

23 July 2015 Whatever you do, don’t mention the Euro by Chin Chin There is a good way to get your own back on American Immigration officials. Not the bright charming ones, of course; who would want revenge on them? Rather the unhelpful MacDonalds stuffed porkers who make you wait in endless lines on the… Continue reading Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Whatever you do, don’t mention the Euro

Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Manners Maketh Man

23 July 2015 Manners Maketh Man by J R Thomas It’s getting to be a very dangerous world, the modern financial industry (even if not like the appalling days of 1970’s Germany where several bankers were kidnapped and killed by the Baader-Meinhoff gang, the self-proclaimed Red Army Faction who terrorised the West German government and… Continue reading Issue 12: 2015 07 23: Manners Maketh Man

Issue 11: 2015 07 16: All going on our summer holiday?

16 July 2015 All going on our summer holiday? By Chin Chin With Henley and Wimbledon now behind us, the London social season has drawn to its close and the British are beginning to pack for the traditional summer holiday. Most of the British, that is: the ones who remembered to do something about booking… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: All going on our summer holiday?

Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Groping Women

  15 July 2015 Groping Women by Lynda Goetz   A brief item, of only a dozen or so paragraphs in one of the national dailies, caught my eye the other day. It was, a little further research revealed, based on a piece in the Inverness Chronicle several days earlier. The report was about groups… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Groping Women

Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Greece and the Oracle

16 July 2015 Greece and the Oracle by John Watson Rain Gods fall into two distinct categories. In “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, Douglas Adams’s character Rob McKenna achieves Rain God status because, wherever he is, it rains. That is one sort of Rain God. The other sort is, well, me or, at least,… Continue reading Issue 11: 2015 07 16: Greece and the Oracle

Issue 10: 2015 07 09:GM Humans

9 July 2015 GM Humans by Lynda Goetz There have been a lot of items in the news this week, although most of them seem to have been overshadowed by Greece, the prospect of the Budget and the Royal christening – probably in that order. However one of the things which I picked up on… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09:GM Humans

Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Fading Icons – Stop the Clocks

o9 July 2015 Fading Icons – Stop the Clocks by J R Thomas “Stop all the clocks” said W H Auden in his much-quoted elegy. That advice seems to have been taken very much to heart in the modern municipal centres of the UK. At one time, within reasonably recent living memory, there was barely a… Continue reading Issue 10: 2015 07 09: Fading Icons – Stop the Clocks

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