I mentioned a few months ago that I had won a competition to have my caricature created the very talented Times cartoonist Morten Morland. It took a while, but I now have the drawing on the wall in my office. My goodness though – he hasn’t been kind. If you know his work you’ll know [...]
Had the misfortune to read the Metro on my way home from a meeting with Google today. Was thoroughly depressed by the whole paper until I spotted this little gem. “It’s United’s year, vote rival bosses. The majority of Premier League managers believe Manchester United will win the title this season. A survey of 15 [...]
Amongst my other jobs, I am the Editor of the holiday cottage review website, MyCottageHoliday.co.uk. If I tell you that VisitBritain call it the “TripAdvisor of self-catering” you’ll get the idea. It’s a small but growing site hosted on a 1and1 cloud server. A few days ago the site was in trouble – it was [...]
I thought I knew a bit about English. I’m no copywriter, but English is my mother tongue. So when I read in a full page article in The Sunday Times on 23rd January that The Minister for Tourism had said that he wanted to “encourage any customer websites that improve the quality of information which [...]
