Category: Family and personal

A glass gong

Published December 19, 2008

I was delighted (and rather honoured) to be joined by about 50 friends and colleagues at our offices today. They came for coffee and mince…

Published December 9, 2008

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Published November 23, 2008

I see that there has been a ‘severe weather warning’ in Britain over the weekend, because it has snowed and there has been as much…

Published November 20, 2008

I have just spent a fascinating morning with Evan Davis of the BBC Today programme and Sir Win Bischoff, recording an item to be broadcast…

Published October 2, 2008

“When Cash in the Attic came on, I just had to stop everything.” “Is there is an Ikea in Bucharest?” “I do like Chinese food…

Published September 25, 2008

Increasingly, I am staying in B&Bs as I travel round the UK, rather than booking into predictable and boring international hotels. With the help of…

Published September 9, 2008

Today the Career Academy staff team (or at least those who could travel, due to the appalling weather) decamped to Cambridge for a day out.…

Published September 6, 2008

Published August 23, 2008

Despite living in London on and off for all my life, I have never visited Kenwood House. I still haven’t actually, but I did join…