I have been waiting for this day for a while, and have been biting my tongue in the meantime. At the end of last week Barclays announced their gender pay gap. In 2002 I started working in banking, beginning at RBS, moving to HSBC before ending up at Barclays, from which I was made redundant … [Read more…]
At Nunn the Wiser Towers, we love gadgets. I have been an early adopter of technology since 1995 when Mr Nunn brought home a shiny Gateway PC with a 14.4 modem that could connect to the Internet. There were genuinely so few people connected to the Internet back then, that the only person I knew … [Read more…]
As it was half-term, we decided that the whole family should go and visit my parents “for a break”. Mr and Mrs Nunn are very good at taking the children when they wake early, and entertaining them for an hour, before TheBloke (TM) and I crawl out of bed. I suspect they use this time … [Read more…]
I went to an all girls’ school. When I got to the sixth form, much excitement ensued, as we were trusted with our own little kitchenette, which contained a kettle, and was adequately stocked with tea, coffee and milk. I don’t believe there was a microwave, because although many of us were legal voting age … [Read more…]