http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk Politics, celebrities, interviews, opinions, travel, and more... Tue, 18 May 2010 16:07:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2010/02/06/lord-browne-im-much-happier-now-than-i%e2%80%99ve-ever-been/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2010/02/06/lord-browne-im-much-happier-now-than-i%e2%80%99ve-ever-been/#comments Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:15:38 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=289 Photo: Phil Fisk Lord Browne of Madingley rebukes me in the gentlest way when I make the mistake of asking a question the wrong way round. If the former chief executive of BP, once widely acknowledged as “the greatest businessman of his generation”, and now chairman of the Tate, could live his life again, would he have been happier making a career in the arts? “I think probably not is the answer,” he says. “When I started out, I loved science. I adored it. At Cambridge, I did natural science and physics and I loved mathematics and solving problems. I was thinking about doing research until my father made a very good point that maybe I should go and earn some money. So I tried business and I loved it because the problems were bigger and I could stretch the boundaries of my knowledge. And I loved being an engineer for all that time – so I was very, very happy professionally doing that, and I wouldn’t think of doing anything else.” My question came on the back of us talking – remarkably openly on his part – about the events that led to Browne’s resignation in 2007 from the company he had worked in for 40 years, 3 months earlier than his chosen retirement date. He had been outed by his 27-year-old former lover, Canadian-born Jeff Chevalier, who had sold the story of their four-year relationship to a newspaper. No related posts.]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2010/02/06/lord-browne-im-much-happier-now-than-i%e2%80%99ve-ever-been/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2008/06/20/how-my-group-of-fixers-made-my-flat-my-home/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2008/06/20/how-my-group-of-fixers-made-my-flat-my-home/#comments Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:20:19 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=130 After my six-month odyssey to find a flat in London, following on from decades of family living in Nappy Valley in Wandsworth, I finally had a new home - but fresh challenges lay ahead. Related posts:

1. How buying agents found my dream home in London
2. Better by design: how I can improve your life
3. Hitting all the right notes

]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2008/06/20/how-my-group-of-fixers-made-my-flat-my-home/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2008/06/13/how-buying-agents-found-my-dream-home-in-london/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2008/06/13/how-buying-agents-found-my-dream-home-in-london/#comments Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:46:53 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=128 This time last year I was renting an open-plan flat high up in a mustard-coloured tower next to Tate Modern and thinking of writing something AbsoLoftly Fabulous about the renting life, with its bank of 24-hour porters and fishbowl windows. After my decades in Wandsworth's Nappy Valley, it was more like the glamour of Sex and the City (without the racy bits). Related posts:

1. How my group of fixers made my flat my home

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Murder, she wrote

Oh come on all ye faithful

Hitting all the right notes

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Really good snares, Mum; how Shlomo taught my son and me how to beatbox

Hitting all the right notes

Oh come on all ye faithful

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1. It’s the world that’s gone mad and had a war while I’ve just been sitting quietly in my tent
2. I stand in terror on the edge of the ice. What have I got myself into?
3. Mother and son find themselves in Bangkok

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The incredible lightness of Salman

Enough, says Amis, in Eagleton feud

The voice of experience

]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2006/08/28/where-are-the-muslim-mothers-for-peace/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2006/02/23/when-the-baby-boomers-become-generation-z/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2006/02/23/when-the-baby-boomers-become-generation-z/#comments Thu, 23 Feb 2006 10:10:42 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2006/02/24/when-the-baby-boomers-become-generation-z/ Ginny Dougary Last week’s television highlight, for those of us addicted to the desperate goings-on in Wisteria Lane, was seeing the sober-suited working mother Lynette Scavo transform herself into a reckless sexpot — bedroom hair, bustier, “shakin’ her ass” as she strutted along the bar counter — in a last-ditch attempt to out-floozy her demon (and, significantly, childless) female boss. Ever since my favourite Desperate Housewife returned to work, leaving her hitherto breadwinning husband to do the childrearing, we have seen her performing ever more frantic cartwheels to prove that she can be a high-performing advertising executive while still, somehow, being a supermom (or some sort of mom) to her three children. Related posts:

1. Yes, we are bovvered
2. Women’s hour
3. Back on her feet

]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2006/02/23/when-the-baby-boomers-become-generation-z/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2006/02/11/the-cure-for-bad-backs-by-royal-appointment/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2006/02/11/the-cure-for-bad-backs-by-royal-appointment/#comments Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:15:39 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2006/02/11/the-cure-for-bad-backs-by-royal-appointment/ Ginny Dougary Sarah Key’s method of stamping out pain is so successful that the Prince of Wales is a big fan. So is Ginny Dougary, after joining a week-long course that brought tears as well as laughter. Related posts:

1. Back on her feet
2. Yes, we are bovvered
3. Women’s hour

]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2006/02/11/the-cure-for-bad-backs-by-royal-appointment/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/10/25/taking-coffee-with-the-reverend-billy/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/10/25/taking-coffee-with-the-reverend-billy/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:27:22 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=18 Ginny Dougary The Reverend Billy of the Stop Shopping Church leads our correspondent on a campaign against the multinationals. No related posts.]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/10/25/taking-coffee-with-the-reverend-billy/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/10/01/david-blunkett-the-musical/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/10/01/david-blunkett-the-musical/#comments Sat, 01 Oct 2005 21:45:15 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=25

David, Kimberly, Boris and Petsy: it’s showtime

Who is David Cameron?

Happy days

]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/10/01/david-blunkett-the-musical/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/07/04/womens-hour/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/07/04/womens-hour/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2005 20:58:14 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=22 Ginny Dougary Women In Journalism started as an accident ... well, certainly by a sort of fluke and I was there to witness the unlikely uprising. In 1993 Eve Pollard, then editor of the Sunday Express, was also that year's appeals chairman of the Newspaper Press Fund, and hosted a fundraising evening with a panel of high-profile speakers. The topic she had chosen for discussion was something along the lines of Are Women Getting their Fair Share in the Media?. Related posts:

1. Paul Foot named journalist of decade
2. Yes, we are bovvered
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]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/07/04/womens-hour/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/05/25/better-by-design-how-i-can-improve-your-life/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/05/25/better-by-design-how-i-can-improve-your-life/#comments Wed, 25 May 2005 14:33:38 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=35 Ginny Dougary Sir Terence Conran has designed a Peace Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show. Now he wants to do a Jamie Oliver on our "horrid" homes. Related posts:

1. Kay Saatchi on life after Charles Saatchi
2. Gordon Brown interview: the election, Blair and family life
3. Lady Antonia Fraser’s life less ordinary

]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/05/25/better-by-design-how-i-can-improve-your-life/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/05/14/hitting-all-the-right-notes/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/05/14/hitting-all-the-right-notes/#comments Sat, 14 May 2005 20:34:07 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=20 Ginny Dougary Singing in a choir is a real joy — especially when you can also spread a little harmony, says Ginny Dougary. Related posts:

1. Music, food of Hove: Ginny Dougary prepares some shockingly filthy numbers
2. Oh come on all ye faithful
3. Men and singing — why we need vocal heroes

]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/05/14/hitting-all-the-right-notes/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/02/19/back-on-her-feet/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2005/02/19/back-on-her-feet/#comments Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:50:18 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=30 Ginny Dougary Prince Charles is a fan; so is the Queen but physiotherapist Sarah Key's approach to backs is thoroughly down to earth. Related posts:

1. The cure for bad backs, by royal appointment
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3. Edge of darkness

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Hitting all the right notes

Men and singing — why we need vocal heroes

How do you pen a song for the Brighton Festival Fringe?

]]> http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2003/12/20/oh-come-on-all-ye-faithful/feed/ 0 http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2000/06/24/in-the-orbit-of-a-goddess/ http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/2000/06/24/in-the-orbit-of-a-goddess/#comments Sat, 24 Jun 2000 09:25:32 +0000 Administrator http://www.ginnydougary.co.uk/?p=32 Ginny Dougary When the writer Ginny Dougary was mistaken for the young Elizabeth Taylor, she was flattered. Inevitably, she began to feel an affinity with the movie star and took a special interest in her sometimes turbulent life. Then she came to realise that she was not alone - everyone feels they own a part of icons such as Taylor Related posts:

1. Elizabeth the first
2. All by herself
3. Ginny meets Dolly

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