How to get app and running November 28, 2011 It seems to get everyone in the end. The dull, repetitive, painful thudding of a morning jog turns from a source of fear and amusement to an insatiable craving. Like desperate addicts people circle public parks under cover of darkness, feeding their habit like nocturnal, masochistic ghouls. Once the addiction has reached a certain level, [...]
FIT IN THE CITY November 28, 2011 FITNESS & DIET EXPERT So you ignored the headlines a few weeks ago giving you your Little Black Dress countdown. Now you’re faced with the prospect of sporting backless, strapless numbers for the next five weeks. What’s a girl to do? Act sharpish, I say. I’ve researched (yes, I’ve been the human guinea pig) for [...]
Episode 38: It’s the final countdown November 28, 2011 I lie in a hot bath, a little too much of my expanding waistline visible above the steaming surface of the water. I am contemplating turning forty. “Life begins at forty,” I keep hearing. My namesake, my mother’s great uncle David, had signed up at 17 and fought in the trenches in World War One. [...]
Jamie’s new kitsch kitchen November 28, 2011 UNION JACKS 4 Central St. Giles Piazza, WC2H 8AB Tel: 020 3597 7888 FOOD *** SERVICE **** ATMOSPHERE **** Cost per person without wine: £22 Sometimes moments come along that give you a real sense of your own mortality. For the most part they’re fairly clichéd, like realising you can’t name a single song in the [...]
FOOD & BOOZE NEWS November 28, 2011 POILANE OPENS ALL-DAY VENUE Artisan bakery Poilâne has launched its first dining venue in the UK. The Cuisine de Bar by Poilâne at 39 Cadogan Gardens hopes to attract customers already familiar with its renowned chain of Parisian bakeries. Open until 8.30pm, it promises to serve wine as well as its famous bread and coffee [...]
QUAFFER’S CORNER November 28, 2011 Wine marketing is a tricky game I was asked for my opinion the other day about iPad wine-lists. For what it’s worth I’m not really in favour for a variety of more or less abstruse reasons. But I want to use it to expand on the larger issue of marketing led decisions, especially where they [...]
Banks lift markets after Italy IMF bailout claims November 28, 2011 Banking shares helped fuel rises on the FTSE 100 in early trading as reports in Italy suggested that the beleaguered country is to receive an aid package from the international Monetary Fund (IMF). The package would help shore up Italy’s finances by up to €600bn (£515.8bn), newspaper La Stampa said. But the IMF distanced itself [...]
OECD: UK to return to recession November 28, 2011 Britain will slip into a modest recession early next year, the OECD said, slashing its 2012 growth forecast and urging the Bank of England to expand its asset purchase programme. On the eve of Chancellor George Osborne’s latest budget and growth announcements, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said the government may have to [...]
Government to inject £25bn into infrastructure November 28, 2011 Britain plans to pump £25bn into infrastructure projects, part funded by private investment from pension funds, to help bolster its economy, Treasury Minister Danny Alexander said. Alexander told BBC Radio an agreement had been signed with the big British pension funds to pump £20bn into projects such roads and railways. An additional £5bn of government [...]
Rolls-Royce seals deal with pension fund trustees November 28, 2011 Aero enginemaker Rolls-Royce has reached a deal with the trustees of its pension fund to offset the risk of pension scheme members living longer than expected. Rolls, the world’s second-largest maker of aircraft engines behind US group General Electric said the longevity swap deal it had agreed would give additional security to all members of [...]
