How do you get a free airline upgrade?

Posted by on Dec 4, 2007 in updates | 18 comments Does it only happen to celebrities or those who moan a lot? Can smiling beguilingly at the airline’s agent do the trick? Perhaps a cheeky wink or fabricating a desperate yarn will work wonders. I’m talking about free upgrades on aircraft seats. Has it happened to you? How can this be achieved? I’ve never had the cheek to ask, but then if you don’t ask, you don’t get....
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Publish and you are damned!

Posted by on Dec 3, 2007 in updates | 17 comments I have twice deleted a post I have written. On the first occasion, it was a personal account about a friend’s difficult relationship with his mother who happens to be a titled lady and it later caused him some embarrassment, though he was in full agreement at the time. On the second occasion, it was because a teenage missing girl I had highlighted had been found and the young woman at the...
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A lesson in school dinners

Posted by on Dec 3, 2007 in updates | 3 comments -I was driving to my mother’s home yesterday – she is still in a teenage tizz over the “dazzling doctor” who cared for her in hospital this week – and heard the Radio 4 Food Programme awards. I was particularly impressed with an award made to catering manager Hugh MacLennan, from Ruislip High Secondary School, London. From what I could gather, Hugh invites kids into...
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