The glamour and panache of working for an airline has slowly been eroded away over the years to become the stale smell of compressed air and lost dreams that the job now stands for today.
Few people can reach the level of thinly masked contempt that the average face-painted, dead-eyed air hostess seems to convey throughout […]

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Picture the scene -
1. You’ve had a meal out in a restaurant with a large number of various groups of friends.
2. Everyone is slightly the worse for wear.
3. Someone asks for the bill.
4. The clucking and crowing begins followed by some rising screeching and ultimate claw scratching.
After a brief round of “How much is it?……Oof!…Ouch!” […]

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What is more annoying than people braying on about how busy they are?
Not much.
Living in a city can be a demanding experience. There is an underlying feeling of running out of time that’s driving everyone to scurry around cramming in as much ‘Warmest regards’ crackberry sign-offs between crayfish and rocket sandwiches as is humanly
possible.
Maybe I’m […]

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