Month: January 2018

  • 60 minutes in Stockholm

    I’m all at sea today. Well sort of. If I’m honest I’m currently sat in a hotel in Dubai which is a far-cry from the photo above, but that is the nature of this job sometimes. I spent much of this week on a whistlestop tour of the Nordics and have just touched down in…

  • Getting stuck in the office kitchen

    If you work in an office you will be well aware of the perils of the dreaded office kitchen. It is a melting pot of pointless conversations, social awkwardness, passive aggressive post-it notes and magically disappearing milk. Some people use it as a refuge to escape their desk for a moment, but others desperately try…

  • 60 minutes in Helsink

    Next stop on the whistlestop tour round the Nordic and Baltic region – Finland. I arrived in Helsinki late last night on a quick-hop ferry from Tallin. There was just time for a quick dinner and a few drinks before hitting the sack. This morning I had an hour to kill wandering around the city…

  • 90 minutes in Tallin

    I touched down in Tallin this afternoon as part of a work trip. One of the weird aspects of this job is that I often get to fly out to cool places but then have little time (or in some cases no time) to look around. On arrival in Tallin I had two work meetings…

  • Groom it like Beckham

    “For me, grooming is not about how you look, but how you feel.” This is how David Beckham has introduced his new skincare range. After many years atop the style lists, Beckham has decided to put his face at the forefront of his own skincare and grooming brand – House 99. Celebrities on skincare and…

  • Grabbing a Brazilian

    What could be better on a cold winter’s night than a little taste of Brazil to warm you up? Cabana restaurant at Westfield Stratford is a lovely “shack” in the restaurant section. As you wander through it has a little glow and inside the beach hut decor of wood and bright colours puts away all…

  • Supporting the Hammers – for a night

    “I’m forever blowing bubbles…” Actually I’m not. I feel like I should admit early that I am not a West Ham fan. My dad, however, is and for his birthday my sister and I had plans to take him to a match. So this evening we wrapped ourselves up, draped ourselves in maroon and sky…

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    Honey, they shrunk The Guardian

    There is a new tabloid newspaper in town – but it has a familiar name. The Guardian has joined the ranks of newspapers which have shrunk down to fit in with today’s more hectic, on-the-go lifestyle. Let’s be fair, the times when you could sit at the table or on the sofa and peruse a…

  • Happy anniversary Davidoff

    A note crossed my desk today which rather caught my eye. Davidoff Cigars is turning 50 this year. I recently sat down with the folks at Davidoff to talk about what is new – for the most part it was their superb Winston Churchill range. Inspired by the great man himself and the early hours…

  • How to respond to a libel threat

    Libel threats are very in vogue at the moment. The esteemed President of the United States is currently the focus of a book whose contents and reliability are being disputed by the upper echelons, which makes this sort of thing a hot news topic. With that said, I wanted to share this courtesy of the…