If you’re facing the sack - make sure you do it in style. Last Thursday a mate was told that they might be made redundant. She works in magazines and the downturn in advertising meant either she or one of her colleagues would get the bad news the next day.
This magazine house is based in […]
A few years ago I was fed up with London. The walls, the blank faces, the endless noise. I yearned to escape: a small place in a remote part of Scotland beckoned. There I could separate the wheat from the chaff, far away from nonsense of the the capital city.
It was nothing more than a […]
The markets have gone haywire again today, and the last figures available show that unemployment is up. I was wondering, if we are heading for some sort of great depression-style meltdown, will we all start wearing hats? Back in the thirties everyone in the dole queue, dustbowl migration and workers march seemed to sport a […]
I can get pretty zoned out in a supermarket. The process has removed grocery shopping to an almost televisual experience. We glide between the silent aisles, led from one colourful box to the next enticing package, before being spat out onto the street. It’s an advert break with no TV programme.
Push into a street-market and […]
