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For the past year I’ve begun the morning in a French café, enjoying the aroma of freshly baked pains aux chocolat while sipping a double shot latte. The owner gets up in the dead of night to create the most delicious croissants and breads, which …

Fast Women and Other Business Associates
I spent an inspirational day with a business-woman who built a business from scratch and sold it for £20 million. How did that great experience come about? I heard her speak at a business seminar, I bought her book and …

Technology is a wonderful thing – especially when it comes to skincare and cosmetics. But with all the techno-jumbo surrounding skincare it’s difficult to know our peptides from our retinol. If the term BB makes you think of a weapon that Arnold Schwarzenegger used in …

As the reader of a business-focussed magazine you may be unaware, as I was until recently, of the rule of the “Golden Section” used in art composition. However, just as art often illuminates daily life, this artistic rule has helped me consider the strategic use …

I’m passionate about colour.
I love the soft breezy palettes of Scottish coastlines where pale sand merges into grey-blue sea and comforting clouds drift over a laid back sky. Or the hot frenetic colours of a Mediterranean fishing village, where an ice-white house can be engulfed …

What do women on top look like? For me I would imagine the answer is a bit saggy with the beginning of jowels but you’d have to ask my partner for an honest answer. The question might be regarded as subjective in nature …