Gone are the days when our mothers prepared our pack lunches for us (for most of us anyway, you know who you are). In these troubled times of adulthood we are forced into piling considerable portions of our salaries into venues such as Prêt a Manger, or taking the time to prepare (often the night […]
Lionel Richie’s “Hello” was a huge hit of 1984 and the video for the song, in which Richie plays a teacher stalking a blind student, is even more iconic of that decade. It’s a song that resurfaces constantly, like a bloated corpse in a canal, but if you feel you need further a reminder of […]
Department store Debenhams has decided to ditch words like “latte”, “cappuccino” and “espresso” at its Oxford Street branch in favour of more literal English equivalents like “really really milky coffee”, “frothy coffee” and “a shot of strong coffee”. The aim is to diminish what Debenhams called “coffee confusion” and to encourage patrons to try something […]
Smarter children tend to drink more alcohol more often than their less intelligent counterparts in adult life. That’s the finding of a recent study of data from the National Child Development Study (NCDS): “More intelligent children, both in the United Kingdom and the United States, grow up to consume alcohol more frequently and in greater […]
A German-owned supermarket chain has attracted scorn for selling peeled bananas on plastic trays wrapped in cling film. The company’s Facebook page suffered a torrent of abuse from customers, many of whom threatened to boycott the store. The irony is that that Billa, which has thousands of store across Europe, promotes itself as a “common […]
Are Jaffa Cakes biscuits or are they actual cakes? As far as the taxman is concerned they are cakes rather than biscuits and it’s an important distinction. Because value added tax (VAT) is payable on chocolate-covered biscuits which are regarded as ‘luxury items’ but not on chocolate-covered cakes. And in 1991 McVities, the makers of […]
The Pope was presented with a huge chocolate Easter egg in the Vatican yesterday. The egg was made by Cremona-based Tosca which specialises in oversized treats. The company donated a 1,000-kilogram panettone to inaugurate the millennium on New Year’s Eve in 1999. The Easter egg stands at six and a half feet tall and weighs […]
One in thirteen UK workers goes for a run during their lunchbreak, according to recent research commissioned by sportswear brand Helly Hansen. The poll found that in total about a fifth of employees do some form of exercise during their lunch breaks. A Helly Hansen spokesman said, “There is a definite trend of the nation’s […]
British office workers are taking short lunch breaks, with many shunning the outside world and even contact with colleagues during their mid-day respite of the daily slog. That’s according to a new poll commissioned by Campbell’s Soup. Most office drones only manage a measly 15 minutes snack break. Three-quarters would rather surf the web than […]
A Singapore resident spent two and a half years on the toilet and is now explaining why, reports The Daily Mail. Mee Yan Leong sat down on her bathroom’s toilet bowl on March 25, 2009 and spent the next 902 days there, eating and sleeping in the same position and only showering 18 times throughout […]
How to plan the office Christmas party Whether you count down the days, or desperately scrabble around for an excuse not to go, the office Christmas party is an event on almost every company’s calendar. So, how do you plan a party that everyone will enjoy? It’s a tricky balance to get Bob from Accounts […]
Top tips to improve your time management skills Despite what people say, time is not a commodity. It cannot be traded, expanded or reduced. It is fixed. Our perception of time, however, is another concept. How often do you think at 4pm “Where has the day gone?” and go into panic mode to try to […]
Planning in business is essential Everything from the monthly sales drive to a new product launch or project needs planning. It promotes joined-up thinking and good decision-making throughout the whole organisation. “A goal without a plan is just a wish”, observed the famous writer Antoine de Saint-Exupery, summing up a key business principle. Each business […]
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