The childminder dropped Boy Three off today, he’d had a good day. “I hope you don’t mind, but he was dressing up… he was wearing a pink sparkly ballet tutu.” Why on earth would I mind? “Some people are strange about it,” she explained. Now this is an entirely sensible childminder of twenty plus years […]
Silent Sunday
Tax breaks for cleaners – a sweeping improvement
At last, a very tidy idea from a government. Tax breaks for cleaners. David Cameron has been in Stockholm getting pally with the Swedish PM and learning how they do things there. Apparently, as well as saunas and pickled fish (insert other stereotypes) they have a system that gives households cut-price domestic help. The point of this […]
Snow joke when you’ve got a sledge to try out…
Winter in Scotland. Brrr. Snow, traffic mayhem, wooly socks and not quite getting round to buying those grippy things for your shoes again. That’s what I thought when, back last year, I was offered an inflatable sledge to test drive. Well, not for me you understand. For the Boys, who are all partial to whizzing […]
Brand journalism: how to write interesting copy for your business
Sometimes it’s called advertorial, sometimes it’s known as blurb, you might find it on websites or blogs and occasionally it appears on fliers. It pops up on annual reports, brochures and in press releases. I’m talking about business stories – the good news stuff that you want to use to send people flocking to your […]
The definition of a blog post…
With apologies to William Boyd.I’ve enjoyed William Boyd’s books since I picked up The New Confessions not long after it was published in 1987. I think he’s just a brilliant storyteller, equally plausible as a female scientist in Brazzaville Beach and an unwitting fugitive in London. So I was chuffed to see him on the Aye […]
Look who came for breakfast
How to feel a right tit AKA be breast aware
[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/20788253 w=400&h=222]Breast Check – Breast awareness is as easy as TLC (Touch Look Check) from Breakthrough Breast Cancer on Vimeo. Be breast aware. Ha ha ha. It seems impossible not to be breast aware. Bosoms are everywhere; boobs spill out at us, on posters, nearly in frocks and on the fronts of every celeb […]