My holiday in the sunny Dordogne is by now a distant memory. Well, almost. You see when I got back from France, I had a surprise. A nasty one. The car-hire charges came in at double what I was expecting. […]

Are you throwing money away? I am. For months now, I’ve known that I could get cheaper broadband. In these trying economic times, every penny counts – and we’re talking about pounds here. I know I could do it, and […]

Last year, somebody sent me flowers for my birthday. It was a lovely gesture, but it’s not the flowers that stick in my mind. Instead, it was the way they were delivered. Not by a surly, shaven-headed driver in a […]

I was on holiday last week. And it’s left a little bit of a bad taste in the mouth. No, not the croissants, pains au chocolat, brioches and and foie gras. They all went down a treat. The aftertaste I can […]

I’ve just finished reading an intriguing book – The Medici Effect, by Frans Johannson. The idea is simple: when two unrelated fields cross over, you enter what Johannson calls ‘the intersection’. And great ideas result – sometimes. The name comes […]