Gatwick Airport in London holds many firsts. It is the busiest single runway airport and the sixth busiest international airport that shuffles through 30 million passengers a year.
Having begun its life seventy years ago, this airport was ahead of its time. It set up a direct link between the airport and the nearby rail station which proved an absolute godsend for commuters and in the...
For just about every business there is a software package that will cover the basics. You can adapt your needs to the limitations of the software and the rest is left up to people skills to make sure things are in the right place at the right time. But is there a way to eliminate the possibility of human error?
Bespoke software, provided by many IT companies, is one way to possibly avoid any...
What is it about office furniture that makes it such big business? Surely, all that's really needed is a desk, a chair and a pen and you're away. Apparently not. Today, people have come to expect so much more from their workplace that standards have been raised and the office furniture contributes towards an atmosphere that can be the making or breaking of whether or not the staff want to work...
What is it about a uniform that gets us all in one way or another? Beginning in infancy, we automatically recognise uniform as having a sense of authority, to be respected and feared. A uniform can also represent safety and young children quickly learn that if they feel threatened they can go to someone in uniform for help. Our early perception of work uniforms also shapes our future.
When I...
Does it ever make you wonder what goes through designers and builders heads when you see some of the ultra modern buildings that we have today? Personally speaking, I think it's a good thing to see the results of architectural visualisation that lead us to some of the high tech buildings we have today.
If we have to have a landscape littered with practical buildings then why not make them...
One of the great things about today's society is that we are not all hemmed into feeling like we have to follow one trend. There is room for self expression and pretty much anything goes. In fact, the more you can make yourself look different the more widely you will be admired. This is in total contrast to the experience of many young people while I was growing up.
You don't have to go far...
We see far too many parents these days willing to keep their child subdued with food treats in the hope that they will be still and quiet, needing less attention. This is lazy parenting and quite clear that the parents either don't know or don't care about the knock on effects that this behaviour brings about.
Some parents think that they will score points with their offspring, bringing...
All it takes is to hear the catchphrase, as in the title of this article, or to hear the theme tune of an old television programme and immediately you are transported back to your childhood. Romper, bomper, stomper, boo was what the hostess of Romper Room used to say when she looked through her mirror to see all the children in television land. I can remember it as if it was yesterday.
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Every day we can read in the press about compensation claims for all manner of injuries or affronts. It has led us to what has now been dubbed the 'compensation culture' where people hire injury lawyers to extract money from anyone and everyone in any case, instead of taking responsibility for their own behaviour. The 'where there's blame, there's a claim' phrase has been used to exhaustion...
There I was, sitting in my mother's lounge while she went off to make tea and suddenly someone hissed at me. Now, it's not a big lounge, not the type where you could hide someone behind the curtains or anything like that, but there was a definite hissing nonetheless. I looked around me, I even looked under the sofa, but nothing. All was quiet and I began to think that I had imagined the whole...
