Life stories – Eve and Sue
Eve is in her 80s and her daughter, Sue visits her every day. I have always been struck how elegantly they have managed to negotiate the challenges of the mother and daughter relationship as they both...
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Life stories – Ronnie Fox
Ronnie Fox has been a City lawyer all of his professional life. Having already founded one law firm, Fox Williams, and at an age when most of his contemporaries had already been pensioned off, he left...
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Life stories – Dr Penny Aeberhard – retired GP
Dr Penny Aeberhard retired as a GP in 2005. In 2007 she volunteered to teach gynaecology skills in Nepal. “Before starting out, I refreshed my supply of books for use in the developing world, buying...
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The Jigsaw Club – older people doing it for themselves
Readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of Eve, my friend now in her 90s, who is tackling getting older with considerable aplomb. This week I learnt of her latest project. Eve was speaking...
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First love – the first cut is the deepest
One of my favourite Tweeters is @boyfrombristol. Today he tweeted this gem of a story about unrequited First Love in the wake of the 1948 Olympics which he has kindly allowed me to reproduce here. The...
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Photojournalist, Thurston Hopkins celebrates his 100th birthday
La Dolce Vita Knightsbridge, London 1953 by Thurston Hopkins courtesy of The Aldrich Collection Thurston Hopkins, one of the great photojournalists of the 20th century, celebrates his 100th birthday...
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Intuition, emotion and charm – Peter Thornton on being an entrepreneur
Peter Thornton talks to Dermatuff user, Flo Lees Formerly chairman of Thorntons, Peter Thornton was inspired by his own experiences to develop an innovative new skin protection product, Dermatuff which...
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Peter Thornton on having the idea for Dermatuff – and a sticky moment along...
Peter Thornton talks to Dermatuff user, Flo Lees Formerly chairman of Thorntons, Peter Thornton was inspired by his own experiences to develop an innovative new skin protection product, Dermatuff...
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Life stories – Michael Aldrich – on line shopping pioneer, father of 4 and...
I have been on the look out for inspirational life stories and what better place to start than with my father. Michael Aldrich worked in the IT industry from July 1962 to January 2000, when computers...
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Meeting an original Swynnerton Rose
I was very privileged a few weeks ago to be invited alongside Molly, one of our Digital Champions, to meet an original Swynnerton Rose and former “Bomb Girl”, Eve and to hear her story. Here is...
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