2010 and the effects of the global economy on Ethnic Supplies
A week in June at the BBC Gardener’s World exhibition served to reinforce what Ida is aware has been happening so much already this year at events, exhibitions, school fairs and from enquiries to the Ethnic Supplies website: (The mainly ladies of) ‘middle England’ types want the quality of goods and workmanship Ida’s ladies provide; [...]
Ida and her vision
I first met Ida a couple of years ago and couldn’t help but be aware of that grace and almost fluid movement that comes naturally to some women while others of us (okay: me) manage to trip over our own toes. She also has that semi regal bearing and a hauteur about her that can [...]
Woman Out of the Box
Last Thursday evening I stood on a stage in a rock venue in Hove wearing a very tight black shift and leggings, cowboy boots, very red lipstick, my unbrushed, white-blonde, wild hair whirling around under the makeshift lights, from which I defended my elderly retinas by wearing dark glasses. I was singing ‘Man In The [...]
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. [...]
Strident, powerful woman helps put Barry on the map again…
In an extraordinary and unexpected event on the other side of the World, Australia has just seen the appointment of its first ever female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, who just happens to be a £10 pom who emigrated from Barry, Wales in the late 60′s.
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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