Articles...
Jan 5 2009
MUCH as we love to think Christmas and New Year are all about children, the reality is that for most adults the actual change in their family circle over the festive season is far more contact with the older generation....
Dec 30 2008
THE annual moan about the materialism of Christmas echoed hollowly around the shopping centres as we bought yet more presents and cards and luxury food....
Dec 22 2008
If you wander around the city centre shops this month you might be forgiven for thinking that only the young go to Christmas parties....
Nov 17 2008
Bankers are going to have to do a lot to restore our confidence. There were we all believing that they were the success story of the age and could be relied on not just to look after our savings but to sit on boards of this, that and the other and run things properly – and now we learn they are gambling addicts in need of help....
Oct 27 2008
Even if you have not yet been affected by the recent dire economic events, the spectre of recession is shrieking loudly enough to send everybody off to reconsider their life style and conclude yes, there are areas for retrenchment. Advice abounds. Here is some more!...
Oct 13 2008
A working week without using my car. Was it possible? Or was I truly addicted? Is this a saving in these dark economic times that I could realistically achieve? Could this be my commitment to saving the planet?...
Oct 6 2008
Three hundred and ninety seven billion pounds. It is a literally meaningless number. We are told that is what it takes to save the American financial system and it may well be but – really?...
Sep 29 2008
What completely wonderful autumnal days! Heavy mists in the morning, requiring jumpers and even gloves, then by lunchtime, wondering why you aren’t wearing a nice white T-shirt with bare arms and legs....
Sep 22 2008
You can’t really get away from it. We now know that economic fortunes are just that – fortune and chance, at the beck and call of Lady Luck....
Sep 8 2008
If it’s true that it is pictures that make opinion-shaping news stories, then you’d have to say last week was a strong boost for the female profile....
