Christmas Letters (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... . However, the highlight was receiving the Good Food on the Public Plate award from journalist Rosie Boycott at City Hall for her contribution to the school’s food policy. As for Paul, in April he gained the title of Environmental Manager, successfully getting ISO 14001 certification for Manestream’s Environmental Management System. Unfortunately, though, he still has...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... by joining and I hope other landowners jump on board, freeing up more underused plots of land.’ Rosie Boycott, Chair of London Food said: ‘ It is welcome news that Londoners can now apply for small pots of funding as well as receive practical advice to get their veg plot up and running, helping us to meet our target of 2012 spaces by 2012. More and more people are recognising the...
Belle de Jour (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... Hope you find it useful too! I'm considering making a board game version of this and calling it Rosie Boycott Bingo. When someone says: "I have too much respect for myself ever to do that." What they mean is: "My self-esteem is so fragile that stepping outside the mainstream would mess it up for life." When someone says: "She's not even that good-looking."...
the irresistible fleet of bicycles (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
I’m a huge fan. This is an excerpt from her book, Our Farm My life as a smallholder by Rosie Boycott When Rosie Boycott lost her job as a Fleet Street editor, she sank into depression and drinking and was seriously injured in a car crash. But as she describes in a magical new book, she found an [...]
Talk about Newsnight (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... Kirsty on what's coming up in tonight's Newsnight Review at 11pm. I'll be joined by Tom Paulin, Rosie Boycott and Sarfraz Mansoor and we'll be roaming over making fiction out of history. Does dramatic licence reveal deeper truths, or is it wrong to play fast and loose with the facts? We'll be discussing Women We Loved, the new season of drama on BBC Four which goes behind the public...
TravelDailyNews.com (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Oldie magazine announced the winners of The 2009 Oldie Travel Awards. Now in its third year The Oldie Travel Awards, in association with Tresco, seeks to reward the heroes of the travel industry – and expose the villains. The 2009 Oldie Travel Awards are chaired by Rosie Boycott, The Oldie’s Travel Editor, and she is joined by a judging panel made up of intrepid travellers Dea Birkett...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Lewis would argue that Ailred had it easy, living in a time of plagues, wars and colossal infant mortality. At least he didn't have to go on a cruise up the Amazon with Rosie Boycott and Maureen Lipman, or suffer the put-downs of "sad mother" Julie Myerson and historian Andrew Roberts, with his "grimace of a baboon with diarrhoea", or breathe the same fetid air as Piers Morgan, Simon...
