The economic news is unremittingly bad. The sky is falling in and all the solutions being put forward by the Government feel like trying to pushing a broken down car with a rope…
The latest suggestions of guarantees of up to £20bn of loans to small businesses potentially involves very large taxpayer liabilities and is [...]
Entries from January 13th, 2009
Is the sky falling in?
January 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
St Albans Market in the chill
January 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Gosh it was chilly in St Albans market this morning. All the stallholders were blue with cold, coriander was virtally frozen solid, clouds of breath from shoppers’ mouths. But it was cheerfully dickensian, people stamping their feet, rubbing their hands, and the Abbey Tower peeking over the roofs.
How lucky we are to have the [...]
The “Arc and Arc” and the Herts Advertiser
January 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
“The Arc and Arc” is much less of a mouthful than the St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society. SAHAAS is a splendid and learned survivor from the days of Victorian self-improvement and organises a seriously impressive set of lectures, events, streams of research and archaeological digs, as well as organising the rota of [...]
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