A million milestone for BirdsOnTheBlog
Here’s yet another milestone for us to celebrate here on BOTB: a grand total of a million page views in one six-month period. For the mathematically minded, that’s around 167,000 page views a month, around 38,460 a week, around 5,480 a day, and around 228 per hour. Whatever we have to say, people want to [...]
Selling your body, 21st century style
Recent press articles have flagged up a whole new, 21st century culture for the oldest profession in the world. It has all the latest labels on it including “unemployment,” “job seekers,” “webcams,” “student finance,” and even “second job to supplement income.” However you want to brand it, nothing has changed since the Dark Ages: it’s [...]
Up periscope – Women now serving on submarines
It seems that the excuses have run out, there are no physiological or medical reasons to prevent women from serving onboard submarines. The announcement comes some 20 years after women were first allowed to serve onboard the surface fleet. Back in the late 80′s when WRENs were still excluded from taking up posts aboard naval [...]
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
What’s one of the main reasons for suffering caused by violence? In this world of ours, violence is all too common across gender, country, culture, society, age and status – so why should there be a day specifically marked for raising public awareness of and eliminating violence against women? The facts are these: [...]
Interview with Jane Hatton of Evenbreak
I was honoured to be asked to interview Jane Hatton, one of the Birds. Jane has created the first and only job board in the UK geared specifically for disabled candidates and inclusive employers. Evenbreak is a social enterprise organisation full of understanding and enthusiasm for promoting diversity in the workplace. Drawing from her own [...]
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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