02 July 2015 Opening Your Oyster by John Watson Got a degree? Now get the job! So here you are. The exam results are through and at last, after long hard years, the education system has finally spat you out. You have achieved the degree you had hoped for and the horizon should be aglow… Continue reading Issue 9: 2015 07 02: Opening Your Oyster
Category: Features
Issue 9: 2015 07 02: Dress For Work
02 July 2015 Dress for Work by J R Thomas Sometimes, when reading the popular prints, one’s eye glides half-seeing over a piece… then, like something glimpsed from a fast car, some rare tree or ancient Bentley behind a gate, one has to back up and have another look. That happened this morning as I… Continue reading Issue 9: 2015 07 02: Dress For Work
Issue 8: 2015 06 25: Anniversaries as Dates
25 June 2015 Anniversaries as Dates by Chin Chin As anniversary years go, 2015 is something of a vintage. We have just had Magna Carta and Waterloo, both duly celebrated by solemn ceremonies and supplements in the press. In September there is the 700th anniversary of Agincourt. No doubt that will be celebrated too –… Continue reading Issue 8: 2015 06 25: Anniversaries as Dates
Issue8: 2015 06 25:Brits in Brive
25 June 2015 Brits in Brive by Robert Rhodes We are now immigrants in France – for the next 5 years. The brief was to rent an old stone house with a large, cultivable garden on the edge of a quiet village no more than 20 kms from Brive-la-Gaillarde. We had ventured across the Channel… Continue reading Issue8: 2015 06 25:Brits in Brive
Issue 7: 2015 06 18: Waterloo – a different perspective
18 June 2015 Waterloo – a different perspective by Chin Chin Spot the odd one out: “My true glory will reside in my Civil Code, which will never be forgotten.” “Publish and be damned.” “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” “My rule always was to do the business of the day in the day.”… Continue reading Issue 7: 2015 06 18: Waterloo – a different perspective
Issue7: 2105 06 18: How to be a Good Housewife/Househusband
18 June 2015 How to be a Good Housewife/Househusband by Lynda Goetz It is distinctly unfashionable these days to be a housewife, but if you do find yourself in this role, you will surely wish to do it to the best of your ability. Here are 10 simple pointers. 1 Make breakfast for… Continue reading Issue7: 2105 06 18: How to be a Good Housewife/Househusband
Issue 7: 2015 06 18: Troubled Bridge Over Water
18 June 2015 Troubled Bridge Over Water by J R Thomas Ms Joanna Lumley is a National Icon. Beautiful, intelligent, a great wit, a fine actress, a harrier of governments over bad behaviours, hero first class of the Ghurkhas, a proper person, and, in short, a model to us all. But we live in an age… Continue reading Issue 7: 2015 06 18: Troubled Bridge Over Water
Issue 7: 2015 06 18: Homes For All
18 June 2015 Homes For All by J R Thomas Ten years ago it looked as though the hot potato which is the UK’s housing policy had finally been nicely mashed. The introduction in the 1980’s of a free market in new residential lettings had greatly widened the availability of places to rent, and ensured… Continue reading Issue 7: 2015 06 18: Homes For All
Issue6:2015 06 11:Lies, damned lies and…..
11 June 2015 Lies, damned lies and….. by Lynda Goetz One of the latest, rather dubious statistics to emerge this week is that women tell more lies than men. That is, if you believe a survey of 2,000 people undertaken by insurance company, Privilege. If, on the other hand, you were to put your faith… Continue reading Issue6:2015 06 11:Lies, damned lies and…..
Issue 6: 2015 06 11: Something fishy about Chinese beef
11 June 2015 Something fishy about Chinese beef by Chin Chin It is never nice to come face to face with a huge gap in my education but last month it was genetics. Of course I have been conscious of my ignorance of the subject for some time; indeed I have tried to remedy it… Continue reading Issue 6: 2015 06 11: Something fishy about Chinese beef
Issue 6: 2015 06 11: Promises, Promises
11 June 2015 Promises, Promises by J R Thomas Mr Cameron, now safely tucked up in Downing Street again, may in the deep watches of the night be contemplating how to deliver some of his pre-election promises. The latter stages of the election campaign edged towards an auction of increasingly rash hostages to fortune as… Continue reading Issue 6: 2015 06 11: Promises, Promises
Issue5:2015 06 04:Fertility and the Next Generation
4 June 2015 Fertility and the Next Generation by Lynda Goetz There has been much coverage in the media since the weekend about female fertility. This has been prompted by Dr Geeta Nargund’s leaked letter to Nicky Morgan advising that schoolchildren should be made aware of the ‘fertility timebomb’ and that, if possible, women… Continue reading Issue5:2015 06 04:Fertility and the Next Generation
Issue5: 2015 06 04: Are we talking ‘last-time buyers’ or ‘one-foot-in-the-grave buyers’?
4 June 2015 Are we talking ‘last-time buyers’ or ‘one-foot-in-the-grave buyers’? by Serena Sinclair A brief look at Nigel Wilson’s proposals for the housing market According to Nigel Wilson’s entry in Wikipedia, he was born in 1956. That makes him……hmmm.. 59? However, in spite of his age, which could put him into the category of… Continue reading Issue5: 2015 06 04: Are we talking ‘last-time buyers’ or ‘one-foot-in-the-grave buyers’?
