WHEN the Advanced Level curriculum was born, back in the early 50s, three A grades was regarded a rare, and extraordinary, achievement.
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Cultivating your family tree
April 9, 2009 – 3:00 pm
HOW do you get started with researching your ancestry?
Make the most of it
February 3, 2009 – 3:00 pm
ALTHOUGH it’s unlikely that the credit crunch will reduce Islanders to acorn tea, potato peel pie and sugar beet coffee, only 63 years ago most of Jersey was suffering from serious malnutrition.
Bargains on the go
February 2, 2009 – 2:53 pm
GOING on holiday may not seem like the smartest thing to do when you’re strapped for cash.
More for your money: Haggling
January 26, 2009 – 2:18 pm
THE last time I haggled was on a beach in Goa. A girl was trying to sell me an ankle bracelet that I did not want.
Pets: Tessa’s golden gifts
January 22, 2009 – 2:57 pm
THE Clarke family, who have kept golden labradors for years, had a wonderful present on Christmas Eve when their pet Tessa produced nine beautiful puppies.
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Silver screen service
September 2, 2008 – 3:00 pm
EVERYTHING used to be so much better – entertainment was more interesting and celebrities were greater. But was it, and were they really, or are we just looking back through rose-tinted spectacles?
In tents experience
August 27, 2008 – 3:00 pm
IN every club, there is always one poor drunken soul who just cannot dance. You know the type – arms flailing everywhere, heavy clumping bear-steps and a manic grin never wavering on his blissfully oblivious face.
It takes two to tango
August 21, 2008 – 3:00 pm
THERE is something a bit saucy about the tango, isn’t there? Let’s face it, there can’t be many women out there who have not, at one time or other, rather fancied the idea of being skilfully swept around the dance floor by a confident (and, if you are honest, muscular, young and altogether dashing) gent.
The man who stayed after the tsunami struck
August 20, 2008 – 3:00 pm
AARON Le Boutillier is not the first man to write a book as a cathartic process but when you know the subject matter it seems even more understandable than most.
