Daily Archives: May 17, 2011

Book Review: In Office Hours by Lucy Kellaway

  By Jenny Foxe | May 17, 2011 - 11:47 am | Books, The Culch
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I picked up this book with glee. ‘A funny and moving tale of two affairs…don’t miss’ shouts the cover. What a great excuse to have to read some steamy chic-fic which the Sunday Times declares is ‘Whip-smart and blisteringly observant. Funny, truthful and cracking satire’ And so it begins - at the end; two out of the blue emails to two women from two men who have obviously caused them much heartache and emotional chaos. So far so good. Then it takes us back two years to when Stella is a bigshot economist in Atlantic Energy, a global oil firm, firmly keeping her married home life out of the office because a photo of her child on her desk may reveal a vulnerability which would be used against her in the cut throat oil world. A female colleague is leaving after making a fool out of herself and ‘destroying her … There’s more →

Competition CLOSED: Win a Nokia N8 Smartphone

  By Sinead Keogh | May 17, 2011 - 10:29 am | Competitions, wantsies
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  ***Competition Closed. Congrats to Nessa O’Mahony*** ***Edited to add: Guys, please note that as per Culch.ie’s T&Cs competitions are only open to ROI residents. A number of entries on this one have ISP addresses from outside Ireland. Unfortunately, while we’re delighted with your interest, we cannot validate these entries. If the winner provides a postal address outside of ROI we will have to declare the entry invalid and choose another winner. *** Nokia and Culch.ie are delighted to offer one of our readers a chance to get their hands on the N8. Perfect for you lot (easy access to social networks as well as on-demand Web TV programmes and Ovi store apps!) it also has a very impressive camera (geek breakdown: 12 megapixels, Carl Zeiss lens, Xenon flash and a sensor to rival a point-and-shoot) and it’s described as ‘made for making’ with an in-built editing suite for making … There’s more →