A flair for home-grown
The News Review:
- A flair for home-grown
- Sir Alan Sugar, chairman of Amstrad
- The middle classes discover grow-your-own exotica
- Commemorating two quite different conflicts
A flair for home-grown
Topeka Capital Journal - Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) - Apr 30, 2005
Both events are this weekend at the Kansas Expocentre. Paul Sanford filled his booth with between $6,000 and $7,000 worth of candles he brought from Copeland, west of Dodge City. “I’m hoping not to take more than half of them home,” Sanford said. “You have to set your goals. Sometimes I make it, and sometimes I don’t. It’s probably more realistic with the inclement weather because people can’t work outside. As a distributor for Classic Candles Inc.
Sir Alan Sugar, chairman of Amstrad
Guardian Unlimited - Apr 30, 2005
And few men are more symbolic of rough-hewn, homegrown success than the tough-talking East End boy made good. Perhaps surprisingly for those who remember him as the controversial chairman of Tottenham Hotspur football club, the nation seems to have embraced Sugar as its very own sour Donald - a media star and entrepreneurial role model - following the success of the British version of the American reality TV show, The Apprentice. While the Trump version was warmly received over here, the home-grown show has been called the sleeper hit of the season. On Wednesday night 2. 6 million of us watched the final four go down to two and BBC2 hope even more of us will watch Sir Alan say “You’re fired” in that cheesy, menacing way for perhaps the last time this week. The show has also created a buzz, marked by high audience appreciation figures and lots of media attention like this. Last night Sugar appeared on Jonathan Ross’s chatshow.
The middle classes discover grow-your-own exotica
Times Online - Apr 30, 2005
And as Britain’s climate becomes more tropical, horticulture has become more exotic. No longer will a row of runners satisfy the garden-proud: nutmeg, pak choi, tumeric, Vietnamese mint and red reishi mushrooms may soon be commonplace in Railway Cuttings. Home-grown Thai basil will garnish fashionable dinner parties before the slides of the Phuket holiday. Children will be urged to eat up their Malay greens. As an ageing baby boomer generation takes to the gentler joys of gardening, it discovers also the fuchsias and feuds, japonicas and jealousies that have made English gardening almost a bloodsport. Competitive parking of the SUVs at the garden centres, grandiose gazebos and computer-controlled hosepipes are, for the middle classes in designer wellingtons, today’s equivalent of old territorial rows over communal water butts, horse manure and the boundaries of the onion patch. But to win a rosette today takes not a prize marrow but a giant Guyanan gourd.
Commemorating two quite different conflicts
Jamaica Observer - Apr 30, 2005
When they departed a century later, they left a country of landless peasants. That had an enormous impact on the country’s subsequent history. After the defeat of Japan in 1945, the French reinforced their armed forces in Vietnam, in an effort to defeat a home-grown independence force led by a dedicated nationalist, Ho Chi Minh. Ho’s forces defeated the French in 1954 at a remote mountain outpost called Dien Bien Phu. France realised that it could no longer control the colony, and decided to sue for peace. A hastily called set of negotiations in Geneva followed, with a settlement that satisfied no one. It partitioned the country in the middle, and Ho decided to back off using force and try political action instead.