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Journal: June, 2010
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Lightweight Shopping Day
And a mini-kaleidoscope
24 June 2010
Cork Street Mews graffito
Face tatoo in Bond Street
Chinese dancing at British Museum 1
A day spent prowling shops for light-weight clothes for an impending trip to India - and took back a Panama hat that I have not had long, but which has developed a crack in the crown. Bates replaced it instantly, no questions asked. Marvellous. Then we took in Jieying's counter-current embroidery for framing at Railing's in New Cavendish Street. Then on to the British Museum to meet Will Rosenzweig, ahead of supper at the Court Restaurant there. Many things going on at the BM these evening, including an exhibition of Chinese dancing and operatic singing. Interesting, but hard on the ears. Will gave me a wonderful little kaleidoscope for my birthday, to promote even more colourful visions. Am contemplating having it implanted as a third eye.... more >
A Flock of Fish
Zheng Jieying's extraordinary piscatorial gift
24 June 2010
Last night, in Soseki restaurant, I opened a most extraordinary gift from Zheng Jieying, one of or two Chinese interns at Volans who left us recently to work in New Zealand. She had commissioned a silk embroidery based on my 'counter-current' motto, titled 'Against the Tide'. The artist, based at the Su Embroidery Art Studio in Suzhou, China, was Wang Ling. Astounding.... more >
Birthday Celebration at Soseki
An evening of fish
23 June 2010
Odd view of Gherkin, but I quite like the accendality of it
Hoarding passed en route - combination of setting sun and angles meant I missed the 'world'
Soseki restaurant, under the skirts of the Gherkin
Hania's photo of fish in Spanish river printed on canvas
Emma (Bond), me and Turkish Delight
Gassan-no-Yuki sake, Hania, me, Emma
Looking for the third eye
A rather unusual start to my sixty-first birthday, with typhoid jab at the surgery, delivered by a trainee - but scarcely felt a thing. Had broken a tooth eating muesli first thing, but managed to enjoy insanely delicious a couple of five honey mangoes Sam had given me last night, with coffee, in the sun. Then made my way across to Richmond in the early afternoon to see dentist. Train late, so had to run in some afternoon heat, so arrived hot and flustered. Different dentist took me in hand, was merrily drilling away, then there was a power cut - probably a combination of everyone turning England-vs-someone World Cup match and their air-conditioning. Got a temporary patch and have to come back tomorrow ...... more >
Sustainability in the C-Suite
Are we seeing the beginning of a C-change?
23 June 2010
It's almost 25 years since we launched SustainAbility, building on the work done by Gro Harlem Brundtland and her World Commission on Environment and Development. At times it seemed as if we were making little progress, or - as today with climate change and the Deepwater Horizon spill - moving backwards. But there is growing evidence that the sustainability agenda is penetrating the C-Suite, a trend that Charmian Love and I took a look at earlier in the year in a series of blogs for Fast Company.... more >
Highgrove, Hill House and 1 Jermyn Street
HRH, parents, and Blood & Gore
22 June 2010
Fairly busy week so far, driving down yesterday to Highgrove, for a meeting of the alumni of what is now called The Prince of Wales's Business & Sustainability Programme, developed by the University of Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership. The S-word just adopted in the first case. Terrible jam on the M4 on the way down, where I lost over an hour, because of a fire in a truck of charcoal. Eventually passed the burned-out wreck. Rubbernecking drivers headed eastward had created jams that extended for miles in that direction, too. The spotlight of the event was on natural capital, Polly Courtice and Jonathon Porritt steered, and Pavan Sukhdev talked about his TEEB study on ecosystem services.... more >
Julie's Bicycle in the Royal Albert Hall
Greening the music industry
17 June 2010
Queen Victoria and Winston Wong Bio-Inspired Ice Vehicle, Imperial College
Jimi, Ray and Jacqueline, Royal Albert Hall
Elton John's piano taps its three toes
As I walked uphill from South Kensington to the Royal Albert Hall this morning, my eye was caught by Winston Wong's Bio-Inspired Ice Vehicle in the front window of Imperial College - and had to go in and take a photo or two, which I also did on my way back. Fascinating piece of sculpture, apart from anything else.... more >
Globish at Daunt's
An evening with McCrum, FDR and Churchill
17 June 2010
Soon-to-be hot seats at Daunt's
Elephant observes FDR and WSC
Went across to Daunt Books in Marylebone High Street - one of my favourites worldwide - this evening, to listen to Robert McCrum interviewed on his book Globish, which I have been enjoying this past week or so on flights and trains. As Elaine and I walked back to Green Park, we passed the wonderful sculpture (Allies) by Lawrence Holofcener of Roosevelt and Churchill, where - appropriately - Old Bond Street joins New Bond Street. The sculpture is intriguingly overlooked at the moment by one of the elephants that currently dot town, emplaced by the Elephant Family, who occupied our 2 Bloomsbury offices before we did.... more >
Big Think in Paris
And lunch at Le Pre Catalan
16 June 2010
Place Vendome - with mummified white cars
Above our heads as we dine
View from 'home', on 23rd floor
Ready for the Big Think debate
In the garden of Le Pre Catalan
Peter Hopkins and Victoria Brown of Big Think
Fairly busy day, then Eurostar to Paris, dinner at Hotel d'Evreux, Place Vendome. Part of the Atlantic Dinners series, the theme this time: Brazil - the Atlantic's Wild Card? Stayed at the Hotel Concorde La Fayette, which afforded spectacular view over the city towards La Defense.... more >
Kitchen, Garden
Poppies and a Cycladic head
12 June 2010
Bumblebee on poppy in garden
Cycladic head in glass cupboard
A couple of images snapped this morning in the garden and kitchen. I love Cycladic art (and its variants) almost as much as I love bumblebees.... more >
CSR 2.0 in Athens
Somewhere between Operation Mincemeat and Globish
11 June 2010
Wayne Visser discusses BP disaster
... as Wayne interviews me
Front cover picture (detail) of EuroCharity Yearbook 2007, post-fires
Just back from Athens, where was a speaker at the CSR 2.0: CEO & CSR Money Conference held in the Zappeion building. Arrived late yesterday at the Royal Olympic Hotel and was very struck by the view of a Roman temple from my bedroom window. Had meant to have breakfast on the roof terrace, overlooking the Acropolis, but had to get my suit pressed this morning - and decided I couldn't trudge around the hotel in a dressing gown.... more >
Aflatoun and Child Finance in Zandvoort
My Leica drowned in Haarlem
09 June 2010
Jeroo at Kasteel Marquette
Princess Maxima kicks off
Partial view of mobile home park from conference room window
Unusual windbreak, made of 45s, LPs and CDs
Audrey (Tan) and Min Xuan (Lee)
Yellow car 1 (Tintin and Captain Haddock)
Statue of L.J. Coster, inventor of movable type
The most basic form of art known to humanity
Arrived at Schiphol on Sunday afternoon - and took the train across to Zandvoort. Drizzling when I arrived - and that later turned to rain, which persisted for much of the time I was there. Was taking part in the first international meeting of what is billed as the 'ChildFinance' movement, though there are still some different views on what the name should be. That first evening centred around a dinner at the Kasteel Marquette, which was romantically surrounded in low mist, with a heron soaring past my head as we came out later into a surprisingly light evening.... more >
Volans Parties
A celebration of our interns
04 June 2010
Group 1: Char, Sam, Alex, Amy, Thais, me, Rafael, Tim, Amanda, Erica
Group 2: Rafael, Char, Sam, Amy, Sam, Thais, Erica, Tim, Amanda, Alex, me
Sam nurses Alex's cycling accident wounds
Amanda says goodbye - for the moment
Lovely evening, extending into dinner for some, at 2 Bloomsbury Place - celebrating the work of our interns, represented today by Amanda (Feldman, LSE), Erica (Barbosa, LSE), Rafael (Morais Chiaravalloti, Escola Superior de Conservacao Ambiental e Sustenabilidade, ESCAS) and Tim (Barrow-Williams, Imperial College). Rafael's last working day, so spotlight on him. The sound-track was the playlist I put together for my sixtieth birthday party last June, so at least I was happy. What a privilege it is to work with such motivated, talented and generously spirited young people.
Group 3: Alex, Tim, Sam, Amy, Rafael, Amanda
Accidental still-life, with salt
Mea Culpa?
Looking back through Time
01 June 2010
John Manoochehri reminded me today of the piece I wrote in Time magazine about John Browne in his heyday at BP. Mea culpa.... more >
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