Waking up is never easy March 19, 2012 ZEN TIMEPIECE £95 now-zen.com By striking a subtle B-note on a brass bowl, the Zen Timepiece promises to “summon your consciousness with complex tones” to wake you up. The small hammer strikes the bowl every 5 seconds until it is turned off, and is meant to set a calming tone for the day. WAKEUP WORKOUT [...]
EPISODE 49 – SOME PARTY REFLECTIONS March 19, 2012 I’m driving Noel to school the day after his birthday party. In the rear view mirror I see him sitting in the back of the car, looking dreamily out of the window. “So how does it feel to be seven, Long John Silver?” Noel ignores my question. “Daddy, when was it that all the bankers [...]
FIT IN THE CITY March 19, 2012 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT The current climate is enough to make anyone ditch the gym for the pub but your body won’t thank you for it – there are better and healthier ways to avoid feeling the squeeze. Spin it out: Exercise isn’t called meditation in movement for nothing. Physical activity increases the production of [...]
Chakra: good but not great March 19, 2012 157-159 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3LF Tel: 020 7240 2078 FOOD *** SERVICE *** ATMOSPHERE ** Cost per person without wine: £50 WE hate it when our friends become successful,” lamented Morrissey back in 1992. “And if they’re Northern, that makes it even worse.” I have to disagree with the last part. In Birmingham, Manchester [...]
SAPORI SARDI March 19, 2012 786 Fulham Road, SW6 5SL Tel: 020 7731 0755 FOOD **** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE *** Cost per person without wine: £32.50 A true taste of the real Sardinia” promises the confident missive from Sapori Sardi. Situated on an uninspiring corner at the less glamorous end of Fulham Palace Road, near Putney Bridge station, it really [...]
QUAFFER’S CORNER March 19, 2012 HEAD SOMMELIER AND MANAGER OF LUTYENS RESTAURANT It is budget time and so, rather than allow my anger at yet another rise in alcohol duty get the better of me, let us take a quick look at how wine duty works. When wine arrives from overseas it comes to rest in a bonded warehouse. At [...]
Apple to pay dividend from $98bn cash pile March 19, 2012 Apple chief executive Tim Cook has fulfilled a longstanding desire of investors by initiating a quarterly dividend and share buyback that will pay out $45bn (£28bn) over three years. The world’s most valuable technology company will start paying its first dividends since 1995 – a regular quarterly payout of $2.65 a share – in July, [...]
Minimum wage to rise by 11p an hour March 19, 2012 The minimum wage is set to rise by 11p to £6.19 an hour from October, while the rate for under-21s will be frozen. The increase in the adult rate represents a 1.8 per cent rise. The cost of living increased by 3.6 per cent in the year to January, according to the Consumer Prices Index. [...]
WorldSpreads plunges into administration March 19, 2012 Financial spread-betting company WorldSpreads Group, which suspended its shares last week over possible irregularities in its accounts, has gone into administration and warned it owes clients millions of pounds. The Dublin-based company, which runs online and telephone trading services, said on Monday Jane Moriarty and Samantha Bewick from accountancy firm KPMG had been appointed as [...]
Banks and miners stall FTSE rally March 19, 2012 The FTSE 100 edged lower today as last week’s rally was ended by investors steering away from banking and energy stocks. Banks have led the market higher over recent sessions following a deal over Greek debt and improving market sentiment toward the stocks which have been hit by market volatility over the past year. They [...]
