Posted on October 13, 2008 by Marion
I’ve been a somewhat breathless observer of all the recent tumult in the financial markets, to the point that hubby and I did have a ‘what’s the worst case scenario’ conversation over the weekend. Admittedly, being young, in the upper end of the socio-economic spectrum, having some assets and no dependents definitely means that our [...]
Filed under: Finance, London, Politics, musings | Tagged: City of London, financial bailout, financial crisis, Gordon Brown, London, necessary evils | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 29, 2008 by Marion
To follow on from one of my previous posts (The current financial madness), I’ve been watching today’s news in a sense of complete disbelief. To think that so many enormous, financially earth-shattering events could happen in the space of 24hrs, and then to top it all off 13 foolish, idiotic Republicans scuppered the Paulson rescue [...]
Filed under: Finance, Politics, musings | Tagged: financial bailout, financial crisis, general madness, idiot Republicans, London, Paulson plan, US Congress | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 25, 2008 by Marion
Flicking through the online news coverage just now (yes, I’m at work, but it’s also lunch time – so I’m not completely skiving!) and I spotted a new line of stories and analysis on the BBC website based around the announcement today of the go-live date for the first stage of the UK government’s controversial [...]
Filed under: London, Personal, musings | Tagged: Big Brother, data protection, ID cards, London, non-EU ID card, personal security, UK government, UK media | 3 Comments »
Posted on September 18, 2008 by Marion
Having a husband employed in the London City corporate banking world, I suppose I’m on the ‘curious and relatively infomed’ end the spectrum when it comes to normal people watching the financial markets tear themselves apart. (Very) Fortunately for us, it seems that hubby’s job is very unlikely to be one of the predicted 110,000 [...]
Filed under: Personal, Random, musings | Tagged: financial crisis, general madness, Lemmings, London, musings | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 19, 2008 by Marion
I’m an avid Vanity Fair reader. I don’t subscribe, because while I could save money by paying up-front for 12mths-worth of issues, I simply wouldn’t have the patience to wait for my issue to arrive every month when it’s already on London’s newsstands. {sidenote – not only is each month’s issue published and distributed the [...]
Filed under: London, Personal, musings | Tagged: Commuting, London, magazine subscription, Mugabe, Peter Godwin, Vanity Fair, Zimbabwe | 3 Comments »
Posted on August 16, 2008 by Marion
While making my world-beating pancakes this morning, I started to think about what the benefits are of our typically tiny, London apartment kitchen. (This list may well grow over time … if I can think of any more plus-points) Everything is within arms-reach (or at most, a step) away The restricted cupboard space is a [...]
Filed under: London, Personal, cooking, musings | Tagged: cooking, London, London kitchens, musings | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 15, 2008 by Marion
As I’ve said in a previous post, I think almost my whole online life (apart from this blog) is completely ‘Googlised’. So I’ve got a pretty positive view on Google as a company and as a service provider over-all. However, I was checking out Google’s new Street View service (it’s an add-on to Google Maps) [...]
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Posted on August 15, 2008 by Marion
Walking home from the tube this afternoon, two things struck me as worth sharing: Why is it that for the vast majority of drivers in London, it is apparently entirely optional to stop at a pedestrian crossing when a pedestrian is waiting, politely, to cross the road? Why is it that it seems that the [...]
Filed under: London, Random | Tagged: London, London drivers, Rant | 2 Comments »
