Life Tips
Life Tips: Michael Albert, Owner, Blustons
‘My children are doing other things so all I can do is try to sell it as a going concern – and at least no-one can change the frontage’
Life Tips Special: Green Your Gaff with Jon Cowdrill
So let’s get started. How can we reduce our energy use in the home and lower our carbon footprints? Usually people want practical advice about …
Life Tips #19: Rowland Byass, 35, Landscape Architect
‘Relationships are like plants. You need the element of time, the shared history’
Life Tips #18: Vincent, Metalworker & Sculptor
Don’t Look Back. My Mum and Dad came over from Jamaica in the 60s with the dream of a better life. It was a bit …
Life Tips special: Green Your Gaff with Jon Cowdrill
I’m Jon, The Kentishtowner’s new Green Home Guru. Over the next few months I hope to save you some cash – and make your home …
Life Tips #17: Eileen, 92, Retired Nurse Matron
‘Take every chance you get to go anywhere and everywhere’
Life Tips #16: Wayne Dhesi, 30, founder of rucomingout
1. Complement each other. A really great thing about gay relationships is that the basic differences between men and women are simply not there. My …
Life Tips #15: Julia Riddiough, Artist
1. You’ve got to Speculate to Accumulate in this life. So declared our belated and much admired friend P.G. Wodehouse and I think that I’m …
Life Tips #14: Melody Gardot, 25, Recording Artist
We grabbed Grammy-nominated songstress Melody Gardot for a chat after the debut London live performance of her forthcoming album at Freemasons Hall. 1. The body …
Life Tips #13: John, Fisherman
1. If I feel lousy, I stand by the sea. That smell gives me life back. 2. Kids should learn a realistic attitude to death. …
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