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What I day I’ve had! A bit rough at the edges and un-kept, I am, but still…movie stardom was on the cards; I saw two oceans colliding and you thought penguins reside in Antarctica, didn’t you? So did I but we were both wrong. But let me start from the…
I didn’t say ‘in the police station’, did I? So this is not about me turning to crime – however tempting this is, listening to our politicians – but about driving; and (not) finding my way around. I didn’t learn to drive young – my attitude to driving was always…
The other day while clearing my desk draws, blast this ‘clear your environment’ stuff, I came across a CD. Curiosity won (as it usually does with me) and a minute later I was looking at pictures taken on the day of my 45th birthday. I was looking at these OK,…
Have you heard about the Hurlingham Club? If you have, you know much more about London private members’ clubs than I did a week ago. Apparently, the Hurlingham Club is recognised as one of Britain’s finest private members’ club, it was established in mid-nineteenth century and was the cradle of…
Today is Mother’s Day in the UK and we are making a bit of an occasion of it. Which, as the more observant amongst you may be quick to point out, goes against my nature for two reasons. First, I am a mother and proud of it (hey, after all…
Most certainly Apple! But let me tell you a bit more about this one. Our household is divided; some people draw the division lines along basic values, established norms or even simply taste and cultural preference. In our house the division is technological – for years now there has been…
After two flights and a short train journey I have finally arrived – in the Grand Hotel in Lund, Sweden. And before you start thinking that I am ‘jumping the niche’ – from personal finance to leisure and travel – this is not the case. I have always travelled rather…
Sometimes we have the kind of years that we just can’t wait to see the back of – these are the years when things don’t go as they were supposed to and it doesn’t matter how much effort you put in thing they fail to come to fruition. Some of…
Today I am running late with my ‘principled money posts’ edition. Why? Because I had another unique experience – I was present at the grading of a particular karate school in the UK (well, truth be told the school is Korean but it has branches in the UK). My youngest…
In couple of hours I am off to the airport in Santiago to begin the long way home. Close to twenty hours journey is awaiting me: fourteen hours to Paris and then some more to Manchester. And yes, you may have notices that some learning has taken place and this…
Autumn has very special significance for me now – if you remember the seasons of life I was telling you about, I just recently entered the autumn of my life. This is the deep part of it; the part where I am looking at my life, back and forward, making…
It has been a week since I hit fifty; how is it? Great! It is the time of life when we are suspected of having mid-life crisis and, this applies more to us women, menopausal. As I say, it is the same as being in puberty but so much better…