Brown and his nation of bullies

Nikki Hunt sheds some light on the widely ignored issue of bullying. Bullying in the workplace has again become a talking point as a result of the recent allegations made against Prime Minister Gordon Brown ‘bullying’ his staff. These allegations have since died down but there still remain some questions that haven’t been answered; why [...]

Job Done

Did he do it? Of course he did, huge legend that he is… Nick Hall writes on his triumphant battle with Kilimanjaro.. Well…I made the summit! I’m not sure how…but I did it. This brings 7 months of volunteering to a nice conclusion. I reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro very early on Friday morning, [...]

How many men is too many men?

Sarah Sole returns to Fingertips with advice on how to deal with ‘your number’. “What’s your ‘number’?” he said, smiling slightly as if he knew full well he was bordering on bad-mannered. Granted, I’d had a couple of drinks but I certainly wasn’t willing to take it there. “Ummmm…” I mumbled as I stuffed food [...]

Moving Mountains

Genuinely the most worthy cause we’ve heard for a long time… raising money for the Amani Children’s Home, Nick Hall begins his climb of Kilimanjaro in 12 days. I first met Nick ‘Hippo’ Hall somewhere between Christchurch and Wellington in 2005. The British and Irish Lions supporters party had taken in an ill-advised wine tasting [...]

Snake in the grass?

Sarah Sole returns to Fingertips, and today wonders whether if your boyfriend was once a cheat, is he always a cheat? Can a leopard change its spots? Not per se…however, if it donned a Dolce and Gabanna jacket and bought itself a house I may be able to blur the spots out. No, I’m joking [...]

Moving in with the Boyfriend…Concluded.

The end of Sarah Sole’s three part series on taking the plunging and jumping head first into domestic life… My boyfriend was at first too astounded for words and then happy that he could remedy the situation when I told him I had never been to IKEA. Immediately, we planned a visit for that weekend [...]

Moving in with the boyfriend (contd.)

The second part of Sarah Sole’s blog…today, the division of possessions and the fight for creative control… Choosing what to keep and what to throw out I never in my wildest dreams could ever have imagined how stressful moving in could be! We decided to tackle my stuff first. With this began the initial cull. [...]

Moving in with the boyfriend…

Fingertips’ newest columnist, Sarah Sole, begins her blog on the scary steps into the world of living with your partner… The decision to move in with my boyfriend came about in quite a strange way. When we told people, most of them nodded and said “yes of course, recession has made us all do things [...]

Recession Friendly Fashion

Brand new Fingertips Columnist Rebecca Almond walks us through the changing economic attitude in the fashion world… Some like it haute while others like it cheap, and the Noughties has certainly come up trumps for label-loving fashionistas forced into frugality by the recession. Down the designers stepped from their ivory towers to protect our wardrobes [...]

Fair trade is fashionable

Save the planet and be fashionable at the same time – has the time for fair trade fashion arrived? Fingertips’ Nikki Hunt finds out I like to know where my food, my drink and my clothing come from. A few years have passed since the controversy surrounding Primark being named the least ethical place to [...]