So Elvis Costello laments in his 1982 song about the devastating impact of the, then recent, shutting down of shipyards in the North East. For those who have only lived in commercial based cities like London, it’s hard to relate to the towns and cities whose economy and identity are dominated and closely linked to a specific industry. More
Working from home… Every day a week day ?
I love working from home. You can set your own working hours and the commute is stress-free but there are ground rules that I keep having to remind myself about: More
Beyond the Call of Duty
A blind novelist, who wrote 26 pages without realising there no ink in her pen has been saved by police forensic experts. Trisha Vickers took her blank manuscript to local police in Winfirth, Dorset. The forensic team said they’d do what they could and began spending their lunch breaks studying the pen’s indentations under special lights. Last week , after five months of painstaking work, they were able to return all but one line of the chapter to its ‘gobsmacked’ author.
Google Saved My Life
This post has been put here just to improve my search rankings. Just kidding.
To those of you who have no interest in writing code for the web, hearing people going on about the merits of Google Chrome or Internet Explorer may seem a bit pointless. A bit like petrol heads comparing carburettas. Who cares as long as the car goes! More
A Popular Mis-Conception: Kids having Kids
The current ‘lost generation’ are much maligned. You’ve seen that middle-aged talk show host, bullying and humiliating young parents. Why don’t they know better ? Where are their parents ? Turns out, the current teenagers’ parents are the last people they should be listening to. More



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