Resignation with Dignity
Dignity is about being worthy of respect, and a stylish resignation should leave your employer sorry to see you go. Having said that, remember that resigning can be stressful here are some top tips to ease the pain: Check your contract What is your notice period? If you’re still on probation, you are likely to [...]
Food for Thought
At 4.30pm on Monday 28 June, 2010, a Community Garden in Lewes Road, Brighton, England, will be cleared and ‘secured’ by landowner Tesco ready to build a new store there. A long campaign to retain the garden has, predictably, failed. I was a retail journalist covering the supermarket industry at national level throughout the 80s. [...]
The Landlady: Mr Hollywood Hotshot.
Part four of the fantastic story of Carolyn Steele’s career as a landlady of a B&B in Canada (part one is here and part two is here and part three is here) They arrived, one Sunday afternoon in the depths of a miserable and empty winter. They checked out our pet-friendly room, with a view [...]
Is disability the best kept secret in SW UGANDA?
I got a phone call from Ann last Friday morning wondering if I was free that evening. Yes I am, what’s up I asked? The school inspector from Patience and Perfect’s village is at Roehampton University for a few days and he wondered if we would see him. So it was that we found ourselves [...]
Having the courage of your convictions, or not
Image via Wikipedia Earlier this year there was a wave of indignation at Kraft for their decision to close the chocolate factory at Keynsham (a place I know from my youth, having travelled past it daily on my bus journey to work, and even got to visit with the college once – that was a [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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