This is good news for me, but perhaps less so for the newspaper industry, for which this could be the last straw. I found myself recently on a cruise to the Arctic (more on that in my next confession). I've been on cruises before and always managed to st… more »

Today I have decided it's time to write about Penelope Trunk. I wanted to write about her for months, but today I read one of her old blogs and want to quote the way it ends. So, I hear you ask, what's so special about Penelope Trunk? Penelope has As… more »

Bit of a frustrating week. My bulletin was 3 weeks late going out due to server problems so the June issue had to be renamed July. Then, what I thought was a harmless reminder of an obscure issue (Places of Worship item if you must know), elicited a whol… more »

Whether we like it or not it's a powerful communications tool and we have to reckon on it. I talked to someone over the weekend who had stopped using it; she didn't like the fact that her details were out there for the world (or at least her friends) to… more »

This is one of my all time favourite words. Coined by Horace Walpole, 18th Century writer of fairy tales, it means, 'the gift of being able to make happy and unexpected discoveries by accident'. Let me give you an example: We were in St Peter Port, Guern… more »