The recent sale of the Rothschild Faberge Egg (1902) brought these little gems to my attention for the first time. Indeed, they appear to be sensational works of craftspersonship and are very striking. I found a good site with pictures of a lot of the eggs if you’re interested in taking a sticky-beak […]
I found this website interesting. It shows that top 100 contractors used in Afghanistan and Iraq between 2004-06. At first I thought the sums were large… and then I realised I’d missed a few 000’s and realised they were huge, $52 billion in all. Although I’m not in the line of fire, […]
Well… honours is done, submitted, completed, finished, and over. In what was a stressful final few days and weeks, the paper took on its final form with not too much drama and slowly tottered towards the required word limit. After a final proofreading on the due date and the requisite printing dramas, it […]