en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:27:39 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Janice Turner Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-20T07:51:48Z One summer evening I found myself in the bedroom of the owner of a lap-dancing club. I sat primly on a chair, he lounged grim-faced on his grubby counterpane. It was the only place we could hear each other talk, since outside was a large and shouty mob. He hadn’t slept for two nights. Someone had mischievously posted his phone number online in an escort advertisement for a “tall, blonde pole dancer”. This man was a pariah and he knew it. Janice Turner: Commentary Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:07 GMT 2009-11-16T10:28:10Z Judging from her recent speeches Jill Berry, president of the Girls’ Schools Association, seems to fancy herself as a groovy pragmatist, who is down with her kids. Janice Turner Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-14T12:22:34Z At 86 my parents don’t get out much, but once a week they like to have lunch at the café of their local supermarket. Since both now walk with a stick — my ma is registered disabled, my dad recovering from a stroke — they need to park close to the store. Janice Turner Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-11-06T07:21:12Z I once worked for a man who got angry in all the wrong places. Commit some awful, indefensible cock-up and he’d sigh and shoo you away. But forget to double-space your printout or leave coffee-cup rings on a desk and, quite randomly, you could detonate a cluster bomb of his wrath. Janice Turner Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:00 GMT 2009-10-30T07:16:10Z The film Up, that deeply affecting study on mortality masquerading as a kids’ cartoon, tells of a couple who from childhood share a dream of adventure. They fill a jar with spare change, saving for their big trip to Paradise Falls. But the roof leaks, bills need paying: life keeps emptying the jar, until one day death smashes it for good.