The wonderful world of 3D cinema
If you go to the cinema – you will almost certainly have found you need glasses to see some of the most recent releases. I went to see Clash of the Titans last night – and once again I found myself shelling out for 3D glasses as well as the ticket. And once again [...]
March 14, 2010IVF in the headlines
I can’t have been the only person who almost choked on my coffee and croissants when I read the Sunday Times this morning. Couples are being invited to enter a lottery to have some ultra-expensive IVF. I suppose it is slightly better than IVF on the NHS – because I am not [...]
March 13, 2010Vroom Vroom
Well it’s Sunday morning and an old Fleetwood Mac melody is churning round my brain. It can only mean that the BBC has been bombarding me with adverts for the start of another Grand Prix season. This time, apparently, it will not be a procession of motorised billboards going round in circles – [...]
March 12, 2010Tiny shoots of recovery in the property market
Earlier this week i was rather startled this week when a couple of bright young things took two days off to go to a studious property seminar in London. They live in rented accommodation and drive a remarkably unpretentious car. But they obviously have enough spare cash to develop a property portfolio. [...]
March 11, 2010In summer…
OK - so there hasn’t been a frost here for two days now – so spring must be here at last. The daffodils seem to think so as they are now hell-bent in making up for lost time. But I have already skipped a season and booked my summer holidays. And seeing [...]
March 9, 2010Hey - I’ve become a style guru
Only a few of my friends would call me trendy – but just recently I have become a bit of a style guru. And I have achieved this without slavishly reading T5, Stuff, or any of the myriad of spurious style magazines. I’ll let you into a little secrect. If you want [...]
March 8, 2010Yet another charity event
Oh lordy - it seems to be Sport Relief this week. Not Live Aid, nor Comic Relief – but a sort of mutual backslapping other form of relief which provides some minor celebrities and sports stars to do something heroic in their efforts to get on television. don’t want to appear churlish [...]