Titanic Treasure or Grave Robbing?
One of my favourite pastimes as a child was visiting the local churchyard to read the gravestones and one of the best was just outside the actual Church of St Mary Magdalene in East Ham, London as it the last resting place for three people who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster. As we [...]
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Today is Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Yom Hashoah falls on a different date every year – it’s based on the Hebrew date of 27th Nisan, which this year the English date is Thursday 19th April 2012 (commencing Wednesday eve). It was introduced in 1953 and is one of only four official days to have [...]
Why I hate the Grand National
With so many people in the UK fishing the last few pounds out of their pockets to have a “flutter” on this year’s Grand National horse race, I use the time the race is on to do some gardening or go shopping. Why? Because to me it’s the ultimate hypocrisy in the horse world: the [...]
Virgin on the unbelievable @richardbranson @VirginMedia
We’ve been Virgin customers since Virgin was NTL. We’ve always had the 3-deal package with them (TV, Phone, Internet) and 2 years ago I rather fancied having a Blackberry phone to keep up with the rest of the world. And the deal was great – even cheaper at £15.00 per month than I was paying [...]
“Unsinkable”? – the blurring of history and film #Titanic
On the one hundredth anniversary of the sailing of the ill-fated liner Titanic from Southampton, all the old beliefs have been trotted out; “She was unsinkable”, “The third-class passengers were locked below decks”, “The president of the shipping company fled as a coward”. Alas, these trite statements turn out to have little factual basis, despite [...]
In her shoes: My descent in entrepreneurial hell
In her shoes is a series of anonymous posts from women in business, sharing their experience. In your comments you are asked to answer the question – What would you do in her shoes? My story began 9 months ago; it is a story of self-realisation, friendship, love and betrayal. After 11 years at home [...]
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