Advert: ‘Tom’ (Google+) – 31 March 2012
It’s almost exactly two years since John Lewis aired their renowned Always A Woman advert for the first time, which followed one fame from infant girl to loving grandmother. After seeing it in that...
It’s almost exactly two years since John Lewis aired their renowned Always A Woman advert for the first time, which followed one fame from infant girl to loving grandmother. After seeing it in that...
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Today marks the tenth anniversary of the 9/11/2001 attacks. In the run-up to today, there’s been a huge media focus on what went wrong; what’s changed since; and the incredible stories of survival, bravery,...
It’s New Year’s Eve, so today I’m taking a look back over 2010 and all of the things we Burdetts got up to in the last 12 months. Back on 1 January, the world...
Hello! That’s it. The big day’s over. Of course, officially Christmas is only just beginning: the twelve days of Christmas run from 26 December to 5 January (Twelfth Day). In the Russian Orthodox Church,...
It’s 19:23 on 4 December 2010, the first Saturday of December – and the busiest day in the retail year. I’m on a cramped train, heading back home to Maidenhead after a great day...
It’s official! The countdown to Christmas has begun! And by ‘countdown to Christmas’, I don’t mean some weird Adobe Flash® countdown timer, giving the number of seconds until the big day. No, I mean...
Here we go, regular readers will know from my last post that Dad was having troubles with the MS-DOS computer. Those problems are now fixed: it turned out that the screen’s florescent backlight had...
Tonight, Dad encountered massive problems with the computer that controls the Christmas lights – a 20-year-old, clapped-out old laptop. It wouldn’t boot and the screen had failed. This wasn’t the first time it had...
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