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When it comes to creativity, one of our biggest concerns is usually how we can be more creative, or come up with better ideas. Internet research in this area is all over the place.

An insidious problem that many people have is that they will often take the path of “least mental resistance,” building on ideas they already have or trying to use every resource at hand.

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The thing is, my research also suggests placing self-imposed limitations can boost creativity because it forces even creative people to work outside of their comfort zone (which they still have, even if they are a bit “weirder” than most).

Talking of weird - apparently creative people are a tad crazy… and kind of mean. For instance, creative people are better liars than their peers, and other research has shown that creative people were more likely to cheat in a game and are better at justifying their dishonesty afterwards. And get this: Creativity was more closely associated with dishonesty than intelligence!

Most troubling (and direct) of all, is that, creative people score higher on psychoticism, which includes traits like less empathy, being cold, and egocentricity.

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Is it possible to be creative in your day job?

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WORDS Grant Runyon / ILLUSTRATION Jacques Le Breton

As you get older, there are a lot of questions you need to ask yourself about what you do for a living. Is it legal? Can it support a family? Will you eventually be replaced by a sentient robot, euthanised and your body recycled into the protein-rich slurry that feeds a ruling class of shapeshifting lizards? Keep asking these (sensible) questions and eventually some of you will get down to asking whether your job does enough to satisfy your creative urges.

This is a tough one, because if this matters to you and you’ve chosen to remain in the Isle of Man then your chances of finding employment as a conceptual artist or silent film director are somewhat limited. If you want to get paid to be creative, you’ll probably need to be very creative about what that idea means to you.

Your appointment with the crusher of dreams

Of all the teachers I helped hasten towards early retirement I often feel most sorry for the one in charge of careers advice. A good teacher is a wise, thoughtful individual who spends decades fine-tuning a sense of the likely paths that a child might take through life, and ideally guiding them along the ones that will best lead to happiness. The careers advisor meets precocious oddities who dream of making movies and singing songs and must gently suggest that if they want to remain in the island of their birth they should expect to fund these activities with a working life doing something dull behind a desk. Many of these children go off to university, obtain an unusual haircut and never come back, many more return home and bury their creative dreams deep down in the inbox of life, or ferment them into the reservoir of misanthropy I possess instead of a personality. Each year the careers advisor must preside over a funeral of creative dreams, his soul gradually hardening like the leather patches on the elbows of his cardigan.

That’s what it is, for most creative people.

A dream. The reality is that unless you’re super talented, very lucky, or just rich, you’ll end up being grateful that you even have the opportunity to be creative in your spare time. Working an office job may not be as fulfilling as conducting an orchestra, but unlike a Chinese factory worker you are paid enough to afford violin lessons on the weekend. Unlike the Sudanese farmer who dreams of writing poetry you have time to write poetry at night, and militias won’t attack your cattle if it doesn’t rhyme. This is a reward of sorts, but also a social pressure valve in a capitalist economy - to prevent thousands of frustrated watercolour painters from rising up like bolsheviks, killing their bosses and remaking our society in the image of a sunlit vase of daffodils.

According to this perspective, your day job is a means to an end and the deal is that

you should abandon all creative thoughts the minute you clock on. The problem with this arrangement is that the creative spirit is like a sleeping bag - impossible to put away properly once unwrapped, and often covered in mysterious stains. Sooner or later creativity is going to leak out, even at the dullest job - like suppressed flatulence at a church funeral.

So why not bring your creativity to the workplace?

Suggesting that you “bring creativity to the workplace” is the kind of offer made in a group email from middle management, usually limited to the options of decorating your work area with inoffensive personal kitsch or dressing up in cheesy #banter costume one day a month to raise money for charity. Unfortunately for the productivity slavedrivers who dream up these initiatives, doing spreadsheets whilst wearing a cowboy hat isn’t creative, and will only raise employee morale if your workforce is entirely made up of cretins who spend their evenings reposting Minion memes on Facebook. In fact the only thing less creative than employer-sanctioned wackiness is swanning around like you’re Steve Jobs or Philippe Starck because you work vaguely in the media, have an iMac on your desk or shoehorned the word “creative” into your job title. Writing a hot take on Boaty McBoatface does not make you Charlie Brooker, and you are not Don Draper just because you sold the client a desaturated stock image of some bubbles with their logo on it. I’m writing this on an iMac right now, and I can assure you that my creative fire is currently colder than Donald Trump’s welcome in Tijuana.

Most creative people are terrible at deadlines, easily distracted and prone to thinking about things in illogical and even nonsensical ways. Unless your boss is a super manager with the ability to harness them, these qualities basically have to be suppressed to make a productive employee, rather than championed as a source of

“A true and most appealing voice”

marginally more entertaining PowerPoint slides. Therefore, its is highly likely that the creatively frustrated employee will come to perceive their working life in the form of a drawn-out guerrilla conflict against the forces of order and productivity. Their only weapons will be periods of daydreaming and small acts of rebellion, their only victories a piece of art made out of photocopier paper and Post-It notes, or a comedy wang drawn in marker on the toilet walls.

RUTH KEGGIN’S JOURNEY TO BRING MANX GAELIC MUSIC TO THE MASSES CONTINUES WITH SECOND SOLO ALBUM

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction - Pablo Picasso

This petty war against an enemy who doesn’t even know you exist can be disheartening, and occasionally selfdestructive, but if you’re creatively inclined it might be the only thing that keeps you sane in the kind of society we live in. The reality of your struggle to express the sublime mysteries of the universe (via obscene doodles) will serve as a constant reminder that there are different ways of looking at ideas like success and fulfilment, and that living a good life will involve constantly reassessing what it is to reach a compromise with the systems we live inside. You might come to realise that your personal compromise means being creative in your spare time, aside from the odd bit of creativity left as a furtive present for polite society or your employer - like when your cat leaves you half a mangled thrush, or a pile of furry sick. You might reject the idea of subtlety and proudly court a disciplinary hearing by decorating your desk with naked etchings of Sir Bruce Forsyth, wearing a gimp mask on “crazy hats Friday!” and illustrating presentations on quarterly earnings with slides from The Human Centipede. Unlike me, you might be creative enough to recognise this trap before you fall in it, ignore the careers advisor and follow your dreams of becoming a post-modernist circus clown. Even if you don’t follow that dream, never lose sight of the scary, unpredictable clown you have inside of you.

That’s advice you can live by whether you’re creative or not.

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Young Manx Gaelic singer songwriter Ruth Keggin has already found supporters and fans across the music world, but her second album Turrys (or, in English, Journey) goes that extra mile – she’s mixed old and new so seamlessly that it would take a real Manx music scholar to see the joins. Drawing on traditional folk songs, adding in new melodies and paying homage to recognised contemporary Manx Gaelic experts Ruth has also added her own new lyrics to make up what will undoubtedly become the standout album of the ‘new’ Manx Gaelic tradition.

“Turrys carries on where my first album Sheear left off,” says Ruth, “and I hope it showcases crisp and clean arrangements of traditional music, that are modern and exciting!”

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Manx acceptable and familiar, and not just an odd-ball peculiarity. But she didn’t learn it as a child, only turning to Manx as adjunct to her love of the music when she returned to the Island in 2011 after university, where she first studied music and then became a qualified secondary school teacher.

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Vanessa Hutchinson (double bass) who are based in Scotland and Eoghan O Ceannabhain (flute, concertina and backing vocals) from Ireland, and for the album launch gigs will be joined by well-known Manx musician David Kilgallon. Ruth, David and Vanessa first met at University (as well as singing, Ruth plays fiddle and flute on Turrys) and have played together on and off ever since but Eoghan is a more recent addition to the band. He, with Ruth and musician/radio presenter Mary Ann Kennedy, also make up ‘Aon Teangn/Un Chengey’ (One Tongue) a project mixing the strong traditions of Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic music which has performed to widely in recent months.

“I was immersed in traditional music,” she says, “and realised that I didn’t just want to sing the songs without understanding the language too, and where the lyrics came from. It was, and still is, really easy to begin to learn the basics of Manx, what with language and conversation classes popping up all over the place. I saw how traditional material could be adapted and arranged for new audiences who may not think that traditional can also be contemporary” Ruth produced, mixed and mastered Turrys herself at Watercolour Music in Scotland.

Although she’d have liked to record it on the Island, Ruth says that her choice of studio was actually more for convenience – Ruth’s band are spread across the Celtic world – than anything else. Playing with Ruth on Turrys is David Pearce (guitar),

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big part of the growing Celtic music scene. Ruth’s first solo album Sheear (Westward) was released to great acclaim in 2014 with Cerys Matthews (BBC Radio 3) describing her voice as ‘beautiful’ and Irish Music Magazine saying that she has “a true and most appealing voice.” The album had great reviews from BBC Radio 2, 3 and 6Music which led to performances on radio and television, including a live concert set at Celtic Connections earlier this year which will be broadcast on BBC Alba in September.

Ruth is a great ambassador for traditional Manx music and the language, but if you’re expecting just a rendition of familiar tunes on Turrys you’ll be surprised, but, Ruth hopes, pleasantly. Yes, the traditional is there, but Ruth’s adaptations and arrangements add much more. “Our traditional music and songs, like most Celtic music, have travelled around the world, and travelled well,” says Ruth. “There are echoes of our songs and songs from other Celtic nations in places like North America, even being sung by the likes of the legendary Kurt Cobain, as my cousin pointed out to me”.

Intrigued? To hear Ruth’s own transatlantic mashup of ‘Ushag Vey Ruy’ and ‘In the Pines’ (which appeared as ‘Where did you sleep last night’ on Nirvana’s live MTV Unplugged album) you need to buy Turrys or get to one of the launch gigs at Noa Bakehouse in Douglas (24 June) and Peel Centenary Centre the following day. Tickets for both are available from the venues and from Ruth’s website www. ruthkeggin.com and from Celtic Gold, Shakti Man, Peter Norris and Thompson Travel. The album will be on sale at the gigs, and venues around the Island including the Lexicon bookshop (Douglas) and Bridge Bookshop (Port Erin), from Ruth’s website and to download from iTunes from 25 June.

(For anyone interested in the Manx language, go to www.culturevannin.im or www.learnmanx.com which has details of online courses for beginners and improvers, and places where you can meet and talk Manx with other enthusiasts. www.manxmusic.com is the website for news and views on the Manx music scene).

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Future generations face a shortage of memorable online identities

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“It’s in a class of its own on the Island.”

Thus spoke a highly impressed tourism official after being shown around the newly converted residence on the slopes of South Barrule. Its soft launch, or first opening, occurred in early May to universal acclaim from early visitors.

“who would like to be ‘Dave123456789’?”

Words: Lisa Pollack (FT)

fter five years of receiving emails not meant for me, I finally met my digital doppelgänger in December. I was on a business trip to New York, where she lives.

She suggested afternoon tea at a chic hotel.

What brought us together is a notably contemporary problem of similar usernames. Her last name, “Pollock”, forms part of her Gmail address — like mine.

Approximately once a month, someone who is sending her an email looks at that last “o” in her name and summarily decides it must be an “a”. My inbox is then graced with an announcement about a shipment of skinny belts that has arrived in SoHo, an offer of Latin lessons for children taught

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by an enterprising Brooklyn teenager or an invite to Thea’s sixth birthday party.

I have thus become a voyeur afforded guilt-free glimpses of a parallel world of fashion, interior design and parenting posh children. It is distinctly less pleasant for my digital doppelgänger who, over inexplicably sweet mini cakes , huffs about people’s wrong-headed attempts at spellchecking her name.

Nonetheless, our online identity problem also demonstrates that we were alive during a golden age of online identity that is now over. We may not have defined benefit pension plans or centrally located homes in major metropolitan areas, but we do have relatively simple Gmail addresses that include our names. In a generation or

two, this will make us look like dinosaurs.

Google, after all, does not free usernames that have been taken before, even if an account becomes inactive. So if you have a combination of your first name and last name in your Gmail address and little else: congratulations, you have ruined it for everyone with the same name, or a similar one, who comes after you. Same with Twitter: you can go ahead and feel bad for future generations, if the platform survives that long.

It is a different story when it comes to Hotmail or Yahoo. Their terms of service specify that, after a period of inactivity, addresses may be recycled so that they can be used by others. Yahoo explains that this is “due to the limited number of

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names available”. On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that the digital detritus of my teenage Hotmail account has not cluttered the online world for those to come. On the other, the risks to the privacy of past owners are unnerving. There are disadvantages for the new owners, too.

As one such user discovered, it is hard to enter your new Hotmail address into your current PayPal account if PayPal thinks that address already exists. So, if you do inadvertently pick up a recycled account, you had better hope that the person was as digitally dull as someone who shares motivational quotes on Facebook.

Many will shout that this is all the more reason to purchase a domain name — to allow, say, a family of Joneses to IN-BUSINESS

have email addresses along the lines of [firstname]@jones.com. But here, too, many of the best addresses — that is, those that are familiar, pronounceable and memorable — have been snapped up. Evidence of this is provided in a forthcoming paper in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. Thies Lindenthal of the University of Cambridge finds that there could be up to 25 per cent more registered domain names if more user-friendly ones were available.

New addresses are being released by expanding the universe of top-level domains — for example, to include .site and .online — but whether these are widely adopted is a different matter.

Those unable to find a web address

to their liking may turn to social media or other platforms. But Lindenthal, in a separate interview, questions whether growth in those services will slow when users cannot find an attractive login name.

“In the end,” he says, “who would like to be ‘Dave123456789’?”

One way to get around this might be to start early, ensuring as a parent that you give your child a name that is both unique and memorable. Then immediately buy an appropriate domain as an investment in their digital future (Google and others, by the way, have a minimum age requirement for accounts).

In the longer term though, we may have to develop smarter ways to recycling digital ashes for the benefit of those to come. agenda

Billed as “the Island’s finest short term residence”, The Barn at Ballaloaghtan is offered as serviced or self-catering accommodation for up to 10 people. Owners Monica and Paul Davis, from Castletown, like to think out of the box, and the Barn is very much out of the normal. Situated on farmland below the isolated hamlet of Kerrowkiel, or not far north of Grenaby, the residence offers the ultimate in privacy, convenience and luxury to discerning visitors.

Self-catering accommodation for up to 10 people

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Entertainment – the property graces five state-of-the-art HD TV sets, the largest in the lounge, all with freesat capability. Art – the property features numerous pieces of original art, sourced from as far away as South Africa, but predominantly painted by Island artist Jeremy Paul, arguably the finest Manx animal artist of all time. Décor – subtle paint tones grace all rooms with accent walls and differing finishes; the sunroom or conservatory has a chic-modern “industrial” look with a galvanized steel staircase between floors. Cooking – the three kitchens were all installed by Andrew Williamson of Isle of Man Kitchens, complementing the local expertise also brought in for electrical, security, plumbing and joinery aspects.

As local expert Chris Wade commenced a far-reaching programme of breeding four types of cattle, eleven of sheep and a herd of large black pigs, all on the brink of extinction, the Davis’ sought the help of Peel architectural technician Carl Jenkins to explore the possibilities for the barn. Paul’s “day job” in the financial sector brought him into contact with many visitors who bemoaned the lack of truly excellent facilities for families or small groups, and a decision was made to go “five star” all the way. Design began in earnest in 2013, with planning permission gained within the year to convert the barn into serviced tourist accommodation.

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Challenges included the unusual dimensions of the building, long and thin, and the fact that the views down to Castletown and beyond are much better from the upper floor. As a result, the living concept is “upside down” with the dining room, lounge and only the master bedroom suite on the upper floor; two further bedrooms, the main kitchen and staff quarters are downstairs. Both lead into a new 2-storey sunroom area at the sunny end of the building.

The story starts a little over four years ago, when the Davis family acquired the iconic Ballaloaghtan farm. In the previous decade, under the stewardship of George Steriopulos, the farm was the scene of the dramatic rescue from extinction of the Manx Loaghtan sheep. When George moved to England to farm the richer soils of Warwickshire, Paul Davis identified it as an ideal location to site a new “rare breeds” farm and development and improvement of the land and buildings began in earnest. Paul was struck, however, by the potential of the old stone barn, with its flying buttresses and dramatic views of the south coast, to be much more than a farm building. He consulted with his brother Tim, an eminent interior designer, who agreed that there were huge possibilities. A dream was born.

The issue of the main kitchen being on a different floor to the main dining room is overcome by the provision of a breakfast table in the main kitchen, and a warming kitchen on the upper floor adjacent to the dining area. Every room has an ensuite bathing area, including the staff quarters, and all are finished to the same high standard.

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Edito...........................................................................................................................5 Be Creative in Your Day Job..............................................................10 What’s On..................................................................................................12 Me & My Pet.........................................................................................................14 TV is Not Great Art...........................................................................................16 News in Numbers....................................................................................18 Give........................................................................................................................20 Soapbox...............................................................................................................22

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DRUFC Annual Dinner...............................................................................24 Katie Croft & David Marshall’s Wedding.......................................26 The Wine Cellar Spring Tasting...........................................................28 Birthday Party..................................................................................................30 Lucy Maria Jones & Robert James Monk Wedding..............32

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Ruth Keggin’s Manx Gaelic Music...................................................34 Culture Vulture.................................................................................................36 Culture News...........................................................................................37 My Name Is.............................................................................................40 UPLOAD....................................................................................................42

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Coachella..............................................................................................................46

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In The News........................................................................................................50 Movers & Shakers..............................................................................................54 Business Events.................................................................................................58 For Retirement Riches You Need To Take Risk.................................60

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For Better or Worse The Nature of Money is Changing...............62 Brexit - The First 100 Minutes..........................................................64 Current Affairs........................................................................................66 Robinson’s - A Family Affair..............................................................68 Relative Values...................................................................................................72 Riley’s Dedicated Bikers................................................................................74 IoD Director of The Year Awards..............................................................76 One in a Million - Jamie Milligan................................................................78 RL 360 EURO Championships Top 10....................................................76 Sorry, Kids, All The Usernames Are Gone...................................84 Smartphone use shift from talking to tapping........................86 A Guide To Minding The Technology Generation Gap........88

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Feature Properties........................................................................89-110

FASHION & BEAUTY

Get the look............................................................................................112 Beauty Products...............................................................................................113

APPETITE

Recipes......................................................................................................116 What Do You Sell Then.....................................................................118 ENZO’S - Chef Speak......................................................................................119 Wine Talk...............................................................................................120

HARDWARE

Motoring News.................................................................................................122 Phone Home......................................................................................................124

PAPARAZZI Are you in?..............................................................................................126/130 ISLE OF MAN PREMIER MAGAZINE

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Is it possible to be creative in your day job?

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WORDS Grant Runyon / ILLUSTRATION Jacques Le Breton

As you get older, there are a lot of questions you need to ask yourself about what you do for a living. Is it legal? Can it support a family? Will you eventually be replaced by a sentient robot, euthanised and your body recycled into the protein-rich slurry that feeds a ruling class of shapeshifting lizards? Keep asking these (sensible) questions and eventually some of you will get down to asking whether your job does enough to satisfy your creative urges.

This is a tough one, because if this matters to you and you’ve chosen to remain in the Isle of Man then your chances of finding employment as a conceptual artist or silent film director are somewhat limited. If you want to get paid to be creative, you’ll probably need to be very creative about what that idea means to you.

Your appointment with the crusher of dreams

Of all the teachers I helped hasten towards early retirement I often feel most sorry for the one in charge of careers advice. A good teacher is a wise, thoughtful individual who spends decades fine-tuning a sense of the likely paths that a child might take through life, and ideally guiding them along the ones that will best lead to happiness. The careers advisor meets precocious oddities who dream of making movies and singing songs and must gently suggest that if they want to remain in the island of their birth they should expect to fund these activities with a working life doing something dull behind a desk. Many of these children go off to university, obtain an unusual haircut and never come back, many more return home and bury their creative dreams deep down in the inbox of life, or ferment them into the reservoir of misanthropy I possess instead of a personality. Each year the careers advisor must preside over a funeral of creative dreams, his soul gradually hardening like the leather patches on the elbows of his cardigan.

That’s what it is, for most creative people.

A dream. The reality is that unless you’re super talented, very lucky, or just rich, you’ll end up being grateful that you even have the opportunity to be creative in your spare time. Working an office job may not be as fulfilling as conducting an orchestra, but unlike a Chinese factory worker you are paid enough to afford violin lessons on the weekend. Unlike the Sudanese farmer who dreams of writing poetry you have time to write poetry at night, and militias won’t attack your cattle if it doesn’t rhyme. This is a reward of sorts, but also a social pressure valve in a capitalist economy - to prevent thousands of frustrated watercolour painters from rising up like bolsheviks, killing their bosses and remaking our society in the image of a sunlit vase of daffodils.

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you should abandon all creative thoughts the minute you clock on. The problem with this arrangement is that the creative spirit is like a sleeping bag - impossible to put away properly once unwrapped, and often covered in mysterious stains. Sooner or later creativity is going to leak out, even at the dullest job - like suppressed flatulence at a church funeral.

So why not bring your creativity to the workplace?

Suggesting that you “bring creativity to the workplace” is the kind of offer made in a group email from middle management, usually limited to the options of decorating your work area with inoffensive personal kitsch or dressing up in cheesy #banter costume one day a month to raise money for charity. Unfortunately for the productivity slavedrivers who dream up these initiatives, doing spreadsheets whilst wearing a cowboy hat isn’t creative, and will only raise employee morale if your workforce is entirely made up of cretins who spend their evenings reposting Minion memes on Facebook. In fact the only thing less creative than employer-sanctioned wackiness is swanning around like you’re Steve Jobs or Philippe Starck because you work vaguely in the media, have an iMac on your desk or shoehorned the word “creative” into your job title. Writing a hot take on Boaty McBoatface does not make you Charlie Brooker, and you are not Don Draper just because you sold the client a desaturated stock image of some bubbles with their logo on it. I’m writing this on an iMac right now, and I can assure you that my creative fire is currently colder than Donald Trump’s welcome in Tijuana.

Most creative people are terrible at deadlines, easily distracted and prone to thinking about things in illogical and even nonsensical ways. Unless your boss is a super manager with the ability to harness them, these qualities basically have to be suppressed to make a productive employee, rather than championed as a source of

marginally more entertaining PowerPoint slides. Therefore, its is highly likely that the creatively frustrated employee will come to perceive their working life in the form of a drawn-out guerrilla conflict against the forces of order and productivity. Their only weapons will be periods of daydreaming and small acts of rebellion, their only victories a piece of art made out of photocopier paper and Post-It notes, or a comedy wang drawn in marker on the toilet walls.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction - Pablo Picasso

This petty war against an enemy who doesn’t even know you exist can be disheartening, and occasionally selfdestructive, but if you’re creatively inclined it might be the only thing that keeps you sane in the kind of society we live in. The reality of your struggle to express the sublime mysteries of the universe (via obscene doodles) will serve as a constant reminder that there are different ways of looking at ideas like success and fulfilment, and that living a good life will involve constantly reassessing what it is to reach a compromise with the systems we live inside. You might come to realise that your personal compromise means being creative in your spare time, aside from the odd bit of creativity left as a furtive present for polite society or your employer - like when your cat leaves you half a mangled thrush, or a pile of furry sick. You might reject the idea of subtlety and proudly court a disciplinary hearing by decorating your desk with naked etchings of Sir Bruce Forsyth, wearing a gimp mask on “crazy hats Friday!” and illustrating presentations on quarterly earnings with slides from The Human Centipede. Unlike me, you might be creative enough to recognise this trap before you fall in it, ignore the careers advisor and follow your dreams of becoming a post-modernist circus clown. Even if you don’t follow that dream, never lose sight of the scary, unpredictable clown you have inside of you.

That’s advice you can live by whether you’re creative or not.

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WHAT’S ON 30.05 – 12.06.2016

SHOW AND TELL: TT MEMORABILIA

//MANX MUSEUM, DOUGLAS// Next to a number of different bike displays in the Manx Museum galleries, come along to our show and tell sessions of various TT memorabilia from the Manx Museum Collections.

See unique leathers, helmets, shirts and other items, which represent TT festival history from 1907 to the present day and hear their interesting stories.

Memorabilia includes leathers worn by Dave Molyneux and his winning laurel wreath from 2005. Molyneux is the most successful Manx TT competitor of all time with 17 sidecar wins and he still competes in the festival today.

Non-race days, including Sunday 12 June, 10.30am & 2.30pm. Duration: 30 minutes. www.manxnationalheritage.im

31.05 – 06.06.2016

TT ENTERTAINMENT

//ALL ISLAND// TT Mayhem, the fun fair on Douglas prom, the Red Arrows and Fireworks are all back for TT 2016. Download the official TT App, see the entertainments pages in the official race guide or check for full details on the website. www.iomtt.com/TT-Info/Entertainment. aspx

31.05 – 12.06.2016

PREVIOUS EVENINGS ITV TT COVERAGE

//MANX MUSEUM, DOUGLAS// Daily at 3pm: For the first time ever, ITV’s coverage of the Isle of Man TT races, interviews and highlights from the previous days racing is being shown on the big screen at the Manx Museum. www.manxnationalheritage.im

30.05-12.06.2016

FORGOTTEN HERO

//MANX MUSEUM, DOUGLAS// A documentary about the life of one of Ireland’s greatest sportsmen Stanley Woods, who was the world’s first celebrity motorcycle racer to reach 10 TT wins.

The captivating story offers a great insight into Woods superstar lifestyle with continental holidays and glittering social

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occasions. This unique archival footage shows his long and fascinating career and was recorded by his wife and friends.

Showing Monday - Saturday and Sunday 12 June daily at 11am. Duration 1 hour. www.manxnationalheritage.im

05.06.2016

MAD SUNDAY VINTAGE SHOW

//STONEFIELD, BALLACREGGAN FARM, PORT ST MARY// Display of vintage tractors and machinery, stationary engines, classic cars and motorbikes. Sunday 5th June 2016 from 9.30am until 5.00pm. For further information contact Orry Mitchell on 07624 496870.

09.06.2016

MODDEY DHOO MCC BIKE SHOW/HARLEY DAVIDSON MEET

//PEEL// The Moddey Dhoo MCC TT Motorcycle Show has been a successful event for the past nine years. It has proved to be a much needed and welcomed event that compliments the TT races. It is run by bikers for bikers, and of course those interested in the diverse nature of motorcycling on the Isle of Man. The organisers have gone to great lengths to ensure that the show is not just a pass through event and have organised a ‘live music’ event on the green. Free admission. www.moddeydhoo,co.uk

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MID SEASON DEMOLITION DERBY

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RNLI FLAG & LIFEBOAT OPEN DAY

//HOUSE OF MANANNAN, PEEL// Peel RNLI lifeboat Ruby Clery will be on display for visitors. See the Mersey class lifeboat and meet RNLI volunteers. A lifeboat stall with plenty of RNLI goodies will be set up outside the House of Manannan; home to the RNLI’s Hope in the Great War exhibition. In the evening there will be an RNLI collection during the sand racing on the beach. www.manxnationalheritage.im

19.06.2016

SUMMER SOLSTICE EVE WALK TO THE MEAYLL CIRCLE

//CREGNEASH VILLAGE// For thousands of years people have recognised the significance of the summer and winter solstices when the sun gives us the longest day and the shortest day. This year the rising of a nearly full moon is closely followed by the setting of the sun on the Solstice Eve. In this guided walk Andrew Foxon will explore Meayll Hill, the Meayll Circle and evidence for ancient connections to the rhythms of nature and the sun.

Please wear warm clothes, sensible footwear and bring a torch.

Refreshments after the walk included.

8pm-10pm. Tickets: £12 available from the Manx Museum Gallery Shop & online. www.manxnationalheritage.im

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PARISH WALK

//ISLAND WIDE// An endurance walk comprising of an 85 mile walk through all 17 parishes on the Isle of Man to be completed within 24 hours.

Entries are now closed, but drivers and supporters should be aware of the routes and walkers, and take particular care during the night. More details can be found on www.parishwalk.com

24-26.06-2016

ISLE OF MAN SCOOTER RALLY

//THE CRESCENT, DOUGLAS// Scooter Rally including a Ride-Out from the TT Grandstand on Saturday 24 June, a Ridden Custom Show and trophy presentation, and two nights of Scooter Sounds at the new Northern Soul Room in the Crescent nightclub on the Promenade in Douglas. Pre-paid tickets/wristbands and more information from Barry Turner on 0151 356 8384/07940 915190 or the Facebook page, Isle of Man Scooter Rally.

25.06.2015

BEN-MY-CHREE ROUND ISLAND CRUISE

//DOUGLAS// Tickets are on sale now for Ben-my-Chree’s round-the-Island cruise on 25th June, which departs at 7pm for a four hour cruise, giving passengers the opportunity to enjoy spectacular views of the Manx coastline.

A hot buffet, with ice cream and a nonalcoholic drink are included in the cruise fare, which is just £27 for adults and £15 for children (the bar will not be open, but passengers are welcome to bring their own drinks).

//ONCHAN RACEWAY// After a full afternoons racing (starts 2pm – gates open at 1pm) the Mid Season Demolition Derby will take place, where 25 Championship points and prize money are awarded to the last car mobile.

Cars are allowed to race in any direction to destroy the opposition. A spectators’ favourite event. www.onchanraceway.co.uk

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DEEP SOUTH FESTIVAL

//COLBY FOOTBALL CLUB// A new venue for this family-friendly festival, which is now in its fourth year.

Music legends Space have been confirmed at the headline act for Saturday night, supported by Ska band Barb’d Wire, from Coventry. On Sunday, anthemic rockers The Farm will headline, supported Liverpool favourites The Real People.

More than just a music festival – though there’s lots of local talent too – there is plenty for all the family.

Tickets can be bought now - £13.00 per adult £23.00 per family (2 adults and up to 4 children under 16) OAP £3.00 from the Welcome Centre Douglas or online @ https://villagaiety.ticketsolve.com// Details of the line-up and special events can be found on www.facebook.com/ DeepSouthMusicFestival

To make a booking, call in at the Ferry Travel Shop, Sea Terminal, Douglas or call the Reservations Team on 661661.

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CHILDREN IN SONG

//VILLA MARINA, DOUGLAS// The Buxton Music Trust present ‘Children in Song’ at the Villa Marina. Adults £7, under 16’s £3.50 7pm.

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ME & MY PET

Sally Mac Breed: Human Age: I was born in the same year as Daniel Day Lewis, Amanda Redman, Donny Osmond and Osama Bin Laden.

Likes: All things bright and beautiful: Summer; mountains; travel; a good book; greyhounds; the Rolling Stones; snorkelling; hill walking; friends and family; all the good things in my life.

Dislikes: Cruelty to animals. Driftnets, Rude and aggressive people.

If you ruled the world - how would you change it: I would ban plastic - all of it, not just plastic bags. Plastic bottles and other junk is choking our landscape and oceans. I would also tackle my list of dislikes above and make the world a kinder place.

If animal what would you be: Something which humans don’t mistreat, cull or kill for sport, food or just because they can.

Perhaps a dolphin (if I can dodge humans, driftnets and plastic) they have some of the qualities of humans without the vices. They always look as if they are having fun and enjoying life to the full.

Why did you choose greyhounds as pets: They are beautiful in spirit as well as in looks and there are thousands cast aside every year by the racing industry and in desperate need of loving homes.

Where do you live on the Island: Royal Ramsey in the sunny north of the Island.

Do you have any more pets: Not at the moment, as we have recently lost Rosie, our little Manx cat.

Would you have any more pets: I am always tempted, so you never know

The best and worst thing about having a pet is... Missy, Lottie and Molly bring happiness every day, but I love taking them on hill walking holidays to the Peak District, which is a very dog friendly area. I can’t think of a downside.

How do you help greyhounds: I am part of Team Greyhound and also help to run a Manx charity, Greyhound Aid League.

We are a small but dedicated group of friends and we hold events to raise funds for the welfare, rescue and re-homing of greyhounds.

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Missy, Lottie and Molly Breed: We are greyhounds and having retired from racing, we are now ladies of leisure.

Age: Life really only began when we became pets - so we think of ourselves as pups.

If human what would you be: With our vital statistics - long legs and slender waistlines, we would have to be supermodels.

Why do you love your human: We can’t resist the big brown eyes.

Likes: The perfect day would be - sleep, food, snooze, walkies, nap, cuddles, doze and Zzzzzzzzzzz........

Dislikes: Thinking about all our greyhound friends who have not yet found their own loving homes and discovered the bliss of being a pet.

If wishes came true, what would be your first wish: 26 hours in the day - so we can stretch out in front of the fire and catch up on extra sleep.

Why do you think greyhounds are so special: Not only are we graceful and affectionate, we are an ancient breed, first mentioned in the Bible and portrayed in Egytian hieroglyphs. We are the second fastest animal reaching up to 45mph in a few strides. At full speed, a stride covers 5 metres. But, we are also known as the 45mph couch potatoes, because after a quick sprint, we like to stretch out in comfort and sleep. Our human says that we are also very clean, being non-stick and drip dry!

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e have a real character in the Cattery at the moment called Sheila – a favourite with the Cattery team. As you can see she has beautiful, flecked eyes and she has an equally beautiful character but she very much lives life on her own terms. She is given the run of the Cattery building and somewhat imperiously wanders around checking every room. She allows visitors to stoke her, but is still a little wary and she needs to develop more confidence and trust in humans. Sheila came to us as a stray from central Douglas and so we can only estimate that her age is about six or seven, and ideally she needs to be rehomed at least three miles away from the Woodbourne Road area. She will make the most wonderful companion, and will repay the time invested in her by her new family.

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ovely Lola, the five year old English Bull Terrier, enjoys nothing more than playing with the humans in her life. Vigorous and energetic play in short bursts is a typical trait of her breed, as is the need to be stimulated because Bull Terriers can become easily bored. Therefore Lola needs to be homed with an active family, with older children, who will be able to spend a considerable amount of time with her and enjoy her affectionate and playful personality. For more information about English Bull Terriers, see www.thebullterrierclub. org where you can also read about the rich and fascinating heritage of this breed. Lola does not enjoy the hustle and bustle of life in our kennels and is overwhelmed by it, and she needs the security of her own home and her own family.

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Every drama merits the creepy spectacle of competitive binge-watching, in which adults boast of festering on their humid sofas through 15 episodes of whatever is modish that month Words: Janan Ganesh (FT)

A television drama debuts to cacophonous hype. It becomes a staple among people whose commitments to work and family make evenings out a fortnightly adventure.

Members of my trade parse the show for allegorical meaning. Political columns liken serving ministers to this or that character.

Playfully threatening to garrotte anyone who blurts out a spoiler becomes central to hilarious dinner-party badinage. When the final episode is broadcast, heartbreak is softened by anticipation of a new, yet more vaunted drama. Everyone toasts the golden age of television.

I am not an old man but I have lived through 30 or 40 iterations of this cycle, starting with The West Wing and The Sopranos at the turn of the millennium.

When you remember Six Feet Under’s time as the “best TV show ever”, the breathless acclaim presently engulfing the BBC’s The Night Manager is easy enough to see through. The HBO imperium, the British fightback, the rise of Netflix, the improbable boom in Scandinavian noir: television has been the cultural story of my adult years. Other people had The Beatles and Motown.

It is not some bohemian distaste for television itself that has inoculated me against all this - kept me, even, from watching a full season of any drama. I own a TV the size of Canada, for which the rest of my flat is just a shell. This glowering matt-black thing blitzes my retinas with nothing more refined than live sport and old films. I do not pretend to be annotating Finnegans Wake in the time others devote to Borgen.

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shows are as technically deft as their lavish budgets demand. They are not this century’s Shakespeare plays or Russian novels. They go deep and narrow into a particular profession or slice of life; any themes of wider import are either in the eye of the over-interpreting beholder or conveyed too obviously to constitute a creative feat.

When The Night Manager provokes ruminations on Britain’s place in the world, when Girls and Mad Men are studied for their gender politics, you can hear the sound of material being stretched beyond its tensile capacity. Modern television allows fatigued, educated professionals to feel they are improving themselves without having to work too hard.

All that is asked of them is time. Aeons of it. The languorous pace of these dramas - “It gets going halfway through the third season” - does not testify to their seriousness, only their vanity and the power of new means of distribution, such as on-demand subscription channels, to emancipate producers from broadcast schedules. The result is what you would expect if the publishing industry did away with editors: dashes of genius and many Everests of waffle.

The tabular content relating to this article is not available to view. Apologies in advance for the inconvenience caused. >Concision must be a - though never the criterion for good art. Revolver would not top best album surveys if the same quantity of good music were smeared across a patchy triple LP. Cinema and theatre are exercises in compression: internally coherent two-hour narratives that must find space for beauty and insight without skimping on the rudiments

of exposition. Some great art sprawls, most notably War and Peace. Breaking Bad is not War and Peace.

That is not a deadpan line, it is a plea for perspective amid the hysterical boosterism.

In the golden age, every drama is the best drama ever. Every drama merits the creepy spectacle of competitive binge-watching, in which adults - people with jury service under their belts and clean credit histories to their name - boast of festering on their humid sofas through 15 episodes of whatever is modish that month.

Concision is not everything. As long as aesthetic value remains unmeasurable, longevity is the proxy test. Who mourns Six Feet Under now? When did you last think about 24? What will Homeland mean to anyone in 10 years? For such vaunted works, they do not endure in our lives as novels, films and albums do. Even the comedy series of yesteryear, such as Seinfeld and Only Fools and Horses , remain reference points for millions. Only The Sopranos has avoided the trap of transience, which suggests the golden age of television - like that of pop in the 1960s, and of Hollywood in the 1970s - boils down to one or two exemplary works, with many more ciphers illuminated by the reflected glory.

Not everything put out by these well-staffed studios is wonderful. Much of it is baggy and overwritten. Some - Doctor Who, Game of Thrones - will be remembered as children’s television when everybody calms down. And all of it is puffed up by people convinced they are living in the television equivalent of 15th century Florence, with geniuses beavering away behind every door.

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year old Liam Miller has been elected as a commissioner for Garff Laxey. He is thought to be the youngest ever Manx commissioner and hopes to encourage more young people to get involved in Island politics.

the ‘ridiculously’ optimistic price tag on the new Liverpool landing stage, which the Isle of Man government might be asked to help fund to secure sailings to Liverpool.

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acres of prime development land in Lower Douglas has been re-advertised. Expressions of interest in the Lord Street/Parade Street site – a mixed commercial use including leisure facilities, a hotel, shops and offices is envisaged - are invited by 31 July. An information pack can be downloaded from www.gov.im/lowerdouglas

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years of Met Office forecasts since its origin at the Ronaldsway naval air base in 1946. Daily public weather forecasts only began in 1987.

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Price of potatoes up by 11.3% (Consumer Prices Index, April)

entries for the annual Hall Caine Prize for Creative Writing on the theme of ‘Echoes’. The competition, which is open to students under 21 and in full time education on the Island, produced four winners, whose entries can be found on the Department of Education’s pages on www.gov.im

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10 years since the official opening of the island’s Macmillan Cancer Information Centre, which is based in the main foyer of Noble’s Hospital.

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ROMANTIC BREAK, WEEKEND TRIP, FAMILY HOLIDAY…ORGANISING YOUR GETAWAY DOESN’T HAVE TO BE FULL OF HASSLE.

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t’s simple to create your ideal escape when you take control and book with the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company.

Once the ferry is arranged you can start planning how to spend your well-earned time away, whether it’s a city break, days on the beach, hiking in the hills, hitting the shops, or just relaxing at a delightful country hotel.

When you go by ferry you can take your car, giving you the freedom to be creative about your trip – you can travel as far, or as near, as you choose. Plus, with no luggage fees, you can load it up with everything you might need, from the kids’ buckets and spades to your golf clubs.

The Steam Packet Company’s range of special offer fares make booking your car on the ferry simple, with a 5 Day Short Break for a car and two people starting from just £93 each way this summer.

You can create the holiday you want thanks to sailings every day to Heysham and Liverpool throughout the summer.

Go north to explore the highlands and islands of Scotland, head to Wales with its spectacular valleys and historic castles, or choose a favourite spot on England’s stunning coastline.

If cities are your thing, you can create a break to take in anything from bustling Manchester, with its fabulous shopping and vibrant nightlife, to the historic charm of Oxford, where the Dreaming Spires of the famous university buildings sit alongside world-class museums and picturesque parkland.

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And Ireland is perfect for creating a truly memorable trip. With regular Belfast and Dublin services this summer, you can sail into one of these historic cities, explore at your own pace and then head home from the other. You just need to create a plan of what you want to see, whether it’s the Mountains of Mourne in the north, historic County Kildare in the south or anything in between.

When schools close for the summer, families will want to create some lasting memories with a fun-filled getaway, and the Steam Packet Company’s Kids Go Free summer special is perfect for that.

Up to three children travel for free when you book a car and two adults from just £114 each way - and don’t forget, with no luggage fees you can pack everything you need for the whole family.

Of course, when you are creating the perfect holidays you want the relaxation to start straight away, and that’s just one of the benefits of going by ferry. There’s a choice of lounges offering comfortable seating and plenty of legroom, a wide choice of refreshments and the Ocean Avenue shop, where you’ll find newspapers, magazines, sweets, toys, gift ideas and even famous name perfumes with prices up to 50% lower than in the high street.

When you create your own holiday, the possibilities are endless – but the best getaways start with the ferry.

Prices correct at time of going to print.

Visit www.steam-packet.com for full details of all offers including all terms and conditions.

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GIVE ISLE OF MAN STEAM PACKET COMPANY BACKS FIREFIGHTERS’ 3 PEAK CHARITY CHALLENGE A group of Isle of Man firefighters is bidding to raise cash for charity by climbing three mountains in just 24 hours.

The 3 Peaks Challenge is being supported by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, which is covering the cost of the team’s travel to and from the Island.

Clio Swales, Mark Cleator, Richie Sims, Rod Clayton, Sam Quilleash and Dave Rielly, who are all retained firefighters based at Laxey Fire Station, make up the team which will take on the challenge.

With Dave acting as driver, the other five will attempt to scale Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in England and Snowdon in Wales on 30th June.

The group hopes to raise at least £1,000 for The Fire Fighters Charity, which provides services to enhance quality of life for serving and retired firefighters, fire personnel and their families.

Swales Flooring is also supporting the challenge by contributing a vehicle and meeting fuel costs. www justgiving.com/ laxeyfirefighters3peakschallenge.

NEDBANK PRIVATE WEALTH SPONSORS WINNING CYCLIST Nedbank Private Wealth is delighted to announce its sponsorship of Owen Dudley, the Manx teenager who is currently riding for Team Isle of Man and is lying second in the British Cycling Junior Road Series. To mark the occasion, the 17-year old claimed an amazing double win at the Isle of Man Cyclefest last weekend: winning the gruelling 82-mile (130 kilometres) Gran Fondo road race and the Storm the Tower Hill Climb.

Greg Horton, managing director of Nedbank Private Wealth, said: “We are thrilled to announce our sponsorship agreement with Owen.

It provides a unique local opportunity to help him forge ahead in his chosen sport, both on the Island and in the UK. Having met him personally, I know Owen has overcome many challenges and I am very proud of his achievements to date.

“Owen embodies many of our business’s principal values, including integrity, humility and a commitment to quality and development.

We are therefore delighted to have the opportunity to assist in his own personal development and desire to progress within his sport.

Cycling is a high profile sport in which the Island has already achieved considerable acclaim, having produced a number of world class cyclists.

“Our Nedbank Private Wealth team wish Owen every success and we will all be closely following his progress through ongoing personal contact, social media posts and his blogs throughout the year.”

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IAN HANDS OVER ALMOST £1,200 TO MANX BLIND WELFARE SOCIETY A grandad from Andreas has presented a cheque for almost £1,200 to Manx Blind Welfare Society after shattering his own fundraising target.

Ian Macaulay had his hair, beard and eyebrows shaved off as part of a bid to raise £200 for the Society, which looks after the interests of more than 600 people with serious sight loss in the Isle of Man.

ZURICH SUPPORTS INCREASE IN JUNIOR FOOTBALL COACHING IN THE SOUTH Colby Football Club will be able to provide increased coaching to youngsters living in the south of the Island thanks to Zurich.

standing supporter of Colby AFC, having been kit sponsor for its Under 11 team since 2013 in addition to providing other items of training equipment.

The international insurance company has purchased a number of new sets of goalposts for the club, which will increase its training facilities. Zurich is a long-

The new goals will help add to the existing training facilities which are already used on Saturday mornings by up to 120 children aged between four and 16.

Within just days of announcing his plans, Ian’s £200 target had been beaten. The donations continued to roll in and in March, after growing his hair and beard for six months, he went under the razor at The Executive Barber Shop in Douglas.

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CELTON MANX GOLF DAY SPONSORSHIP SEES CRUSE BEREAVEMENT CARE ISLE OF MAN RAISE £8, 500 Held at Peel Golf Club the event was sponsored for the fifth year in succession

by Celton Manx and renamed The Mike Henthorn Cruse Memorial Golf Day in recognition of the late Mike Henthorn, a well respected and leading figure in the local business community, and a longstanding supporter and former vicechairman of the charity.

Cruse Bereavement’s Sam Skelton said: ‘It’s testament to the affection in which Mike was held that the event this year attracted a record 22 teams. He was a larger-than-life character and the instigator of the golf day. His memory lives on, though, with his son Mark working part-time for Cruse and his widow, Janet, presenting the prizes on the day.

The 62-year-old wanted to donate the money in memory of his late father, Donald, who was supported by MBWS after losing his eyesight.

Ian said: ‘The public support has been utterly overwhelming. I just wanted to show my appreciation for the work the Society does, and especially the help it gave Dad. www.mbws.org.im

Celton Manx executive director Bill Mummery, second from right, is pictured with Janet Henthorn, together with Nick Corlett and Tom Dowling from the winning team (Paul Cowell and Richard Hill unavailable), and Cruse Bereavement Care’s Sam Skelton.

2015-2016 MAYORAL CHARITY APPEAL RAISES £15,000 Three local charities are to share £15,000 thanks to former Mayor of Douglas Sara Hackman’s mayoral charity appeal.

In her final engagement as Mayor of Douglas Mrs Hackman hosted a reception for representatives of her three chosen charities, Junior Achievement Isle of Man, Manx Breast Care Unit Appeal and the RNLI, when she announced that each would receive a cheque on the evening for £4,500, but said a final total had not been calculated.

She praised the efforts of her charity committee which had devised a whole host of inspirational ways to raise money, from pamper evenings to African extravaganzas, Murder Mystery evenings to ‘oompah’ nights. She also thanked her mayoress, Councillor Carol Malarkey, for her support for and for helping her to raise funds in ways that had been ‘fantastic fun’. The appeal raised £15,000 in total and the three charities will now each receive an additional £500.

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Help. I have no internet. It’s day two of no internet and I’m going mad. I almost had to pick up a book the other day – desperate times! I mean, I still have 4G on my phone, but that’s not my favourite way to use the internet, and it’s like three whole seconds slower than my broadband, it’s no way for a man to live.

As I write this, not only am I unsure of Oh well, first impressions aren’t everything just live around the mess for a bit. There’s how I’m going to email it to meet this I suppose, and even if they are, I think I also building going on at work, as we’re month’s deadline, but I’m also feeling quite made a good one with our neighbour by expanding and getting shiny new offices, insignificant in a flat full of packed boxes remembering the names of his dogs. He so this has very much been a month of and marks in the carpet where the furniture takes them for gundog training and I think newness and exciting chaos. I’ve taken the used to be. Yes, I’m moving. My girlfriend they’re obedient to military standards, day off today so I can take some more bits and I have bought a house, and are midway which I guess is reassuring – provided to the house, but so far I’m still in bed and through the move. They say moving house my dyspraxic cat who’s probably ignorant have just watched an hour of pointless TV, a is, according to psychologists, about 75% as enough to make friends with a moving car throwback to my student days if anything! emotionally distressing as losing a loved doesn’t assume they want to be mates and one. I’m not sure if I agree… we’ve all lost a decide to see if his head fits in their mouths.

Seriously though, I’ve been so tired this loved one, and it’s not fun. I remember when week and for once it’s justified, I rarely do my grandpa died, it was horrible, but things… doing things isn’t really my we didn’t get another ‘two bedroom’ style, but I think I’m getting the hang grandpa in Chichester to replace him.

“Upon seeing him I did what of it. It sure is taking its toll though – I guess there’s a lot to be said for being any self respecting man I’d say all in all, the whole process has productive. My advice would be to try been exhausting but exhilarating. Sure, a few hours of being unproductive and would do and pretended it hasn’t been without its problems, but so that when you are productive it the wooden thresholds were lazy, then again life would be so boring if feels more meaningful. It’s sort of like everything went as planned the whole waiting until you’re really hungry to eat my penis – I gesticulated time. The latest hurdle we’ve had to dinner, but less good because there’s accordingly, only to see two no food involved. Better yet, be lazy overcome is buying thresholds for the doors that match the wood. I spent half young teenage girls walking whilst eating, and then be productive! I an hour in Homebase choosing, and think, in last month’s article, my advice their dog across the road” came back with the wrong ones. The way was to embrace 2016 as the year of I see it, they’re all pretty nice problems to the unexpected (which it has been for have – frustrating, but nice. What’s worse, me, ranging from buying a house to maybe, is that I may not have made the best Basically, I think moving in (which we receiving an anonymous Emoji ‘poo’ pillow first impression to the neighbourhood. will have done by the time you read this) in the post), but this month I think I want is going to go as smoothly as expected. to stress the importance of a balanced A friend of ours is decorating for us, and Charlie and I have spent the last week of lifestyle. Be productive, but don’t condemn walking back from Homebase with the evenings stripping wallpaper, which is laziness. Think how advanced we’d be today (wrong) thresholds in hand he spotted me both therapeutic and messy at the same if nobody was lazy! Robots would have through the window, and upon seeing him time, and the rooms we’ve done look like a already enslaved humanity.

I did what any self respecting man would bombsite, but it’s better than the nicotine do and pretended they were my penis – I stained walls of the previous owners. No You’re welcome, world. Let’s raise a glass gesticulated accordingly, only to see two offence to them, it’s just that we personally to putting your feet up. My advice going young teenage girls walking their dog prefer not… that. forward is to always make time for nothing… across the road – so I messed up a bit there. oh, and get on the property ladder – both How does one rectify that? There’s no right Anyway, there’s no rush – it’s not going of these things are slightly less devastating way to fix a situation by saying ‘it’s not what anywhere, and neither is the mortgage, so than losing a loved one. it looks like’. we’re doing it one room at a time and will

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THE DRUFC ANNUAL DINNER

Location: The Palace Hotel Photos: Dollsfactory.net

‘Douglas Rugby Club’s annual dinner at the Palace Hotel brought a full house of 208 guests to be entertained by Scotland and British Lion rugby player Doddie Weir. Players, supporters, sponsors, family and friends were treated to a highly entertaining evening, including the floor show ‘Le Chaude Serviettes’.

Mike Haywood of sponsors Old Mutual International presented the Player of the Year award to Paul Leivers, and spoke eloquently of the successful collaboration between Douglas RUFC and OMI. Geoff Black of Black Grace Cowley presented 2nd XV Player of the Year to Charlie Henthorn, Clubman of the Year was awarded by James Greenhalgh of Hartford Homes to Jasper Kirkpatrick, Top Try Scorer

by Doddie Weir to Ben Webb, Top Points Scorer by ex-All Black Mark Robinson to Bryn Snellgrove, and Robert Todd was presented with the coveted Golden Ball award by Steve McGowan of SMP’.

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KATIE CROFT & DAVID MARSHALL’S WEDDING DAY

Reception: Bradda Glen Photos: Shan Fisher www.shansphoto.com

Katie and David met at the birthday party of their mutual friend Anji, who was one of the bridesmaids at their wedding. After a few meets they just clicked and started seeing each other. Dave lived about an hour and a half away from Katie so they saw each other every weekend for a year before Dave moved down to London.

Dave proposed on a lovely walk in bushy park near where they live.

He then took Katie and her family for a lovely meal, they stayed in a gorgeous hotel and then to fireworks in the evening.

I had a great time at Katie and David’s wedding. I’m honoured to have documented your first day as husband and wife. I am thankful to have been invited into your lives. You both are such an adorable couple. I can’t wait to see what the future holds for you both!

Many thanks to the amazing team who brought this wedding to perfection.

Wedding Dress: Teddington, London Bridesmaids Dress: Coast Shoes: Rachael Simpson Menswear: Reiss Makeup Artist: Daniella Utopia Hair-styling: Kirsty - Utopia Flowers: Suzanne’s Flowers

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Young Manx Gaelic singer songwriter Ruth Keggin has already found supporters and fans across the music world, but her second album Turrys (or, in English, Journey) goes that extra mile – she’s mixed old and new so seamlessly that it would take a real Manx music scholar to see the joins. Drawing on traditional folk songs, adding in new melodies and paying homage to recognised contemporary Manx Gaelic experts Ruth has also added her own new lyrics to make up what will undoubtedly become the standout album of the ‘new’ Manx Gaelic tradition.

“Turrys carries on where my first album Sheear left off,” says Ruth, “and I hope it showcases crisp and clean arrangements of traditional music, that are modern and exciting!”

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Manx acceptable and familiar, and not just an odd-ball peculiarity. But she didn’t learn it as a child, only turning to Manx as adjunct to her love of the music when she returned to the Island in 2011 after university, where she first studied music and then became a qualified secondary school teacher.

“I was immersed in traditional music,” she says, “and realised that I didn’t just want to sing the songs without understanding the language too, and where the lyrics came from. It was, and still is, really easy to begin to learn the basics of Manx, what with language and conversation classes popping up all over the place. I saw how traditional material could be adapted and arranged for new audiences who may not think that traditional can also be contemporary” Ruth produced, mixed and mastered Turrys herself at Watercolour Music in Scotland.

Although she’d have liked to record it on the Island, Ruth says that her choice of studio was actually more for convenience – Ruth’s band are spread across the Celtic world – than anything else. Playing with Ruth on Turrys is David Pearce (guitar), ISLE OF MAN PREMIER MAGAZINE

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Vanessa Hutchinson (double bass) who are based in Scotland and Eoghan O Ceannabhain (flute, concertina and backing vocals) from Ireland, and for the album launch gigs will be joined by well-known Manx musician David Kilgallon. Ruth, David and Vanessa first met at University (as well as singing, Ruth plays fiddle and flute on Turrys) and have played together on and off ever since but Eoghan is a more recent addition to the band. He, with Ruth and musician/radio presenter Mary Ann Kennedy, also make up ‘Aon Teangn/Un Chengey’ (One Tongue) a project mixing the strong traditions of Irish, Scottish and Manx Gaelic music which has performed to widely in recent months.

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big part of the growing Celtic music scene. Ruth’s first solo album Sheear (Westward) was released to great acclaim in 2014 with Cerys Matthews (BBC Radio 3) describing her voice as ‘beautiful’ and Irish Music Magazine saying that she has “a true and most appealing voice.” The album had great reviews from BBC Radio 2, 3 and 6Music which led to performances on radio and television, including a live concert set at Celtic Connections earlier this year which will be broadcast on BBC Alba in September.

Ruth is a great ambassador for traditional Manx music and the language, but if you’re expecting just a rendition of familiar tunes on Turrys you’ll be surprised, but, Ruth hopes, pleasantly. Yes, the traditional is there, but Ruth’s adaptations and arrangements add much more. “Our traditional music and songs, like most Celtic music, have travelled around the world, and travelled well,” says Ruth. “There are echoes of our songs and songs from other Celtic nations in places like North America, even being sung by the likes of the legendary Kurt Cobain, as my cousin pointed out to me”.

Intrigued? To hear Ruth’s own transatlantic mashup of ‘Ushag Vey Ruy’ and ‘In the Pines’ (which appeared as ‘Where did you sleep last night’ on Nirvana’s live MTV Unplugged album) you need to buy Turrys or get to one of the launch gigs at Noa Bakehouse in Douglas (24 June) and Peel Centenary Centre the following day. Tickets for both are available from the venues and from Ruth’s website www. ruthkeggin.com and from Celtic Gold, Shakti Man, Peter Norris and Thompson Travel. The album will be on sale at the gigs, and venues around the Island including the Lexicon bookshop (Douglas) and Bridge Bookshop (Port Erin), from Ruth’s website and to download from iTunes from 25 June.

(For anyone interested in the Manx language, go to www.culturevannin. im or www.learnmanx.com which has details of online courses for beginners and improvers, and places where you can meet and talk Manx with other enthusiasts. www.manxmusic.com is the website for news and views on the Manx music scene).

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A rare opportunity to the see the stunning black and white prints of the Isle of Man’s people and places by distinguished Manx photographer Chris Killip.

Admission free. www.manxnationalheritage.im

//SAYLE GALLERY, DOUGLAS//

05 – 26.06.2016

AROUND THE WORLD IN 90 DAYS: AN ASTRONAUT’S PERSPECTIVE A stunning display of watercolours by astronaut Nicole Stott, who flew on both the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station and spent a total of 104 days living and working in space. She was overwhelmed by the beauty of our planet from this unique viewpoint, and took her paints to the ISS to record it. Nicole’s husband is Manx and she is delighted that the first full exhibition of her artwork is taking place in the Isle of Man. www.sayle.gallery www.facebook.com/SayleGallery

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ARE YOU THE NEXT MANX BARD? //ISLAND-WIDE//

The 2016 competition to find the Manx Bard is now open. Sponsored by Isle of Man Arts Council and supported by Manx Litfest, this exciting initiative launched in 2014 and every year sees the Island’s most worthy poet appointed as Manx Bard via an open competition.

If you think you’ve got what it takes you can find more information and entry forms at www.facebook.com/ManxBard or by emailing bridgetcarterpoetry@mcb.net or picking up an entry form at the Henry Bloom Noble library or the Legislative Buildings. The closing date for entries is 8 July.

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OF GORSE AND GAELS //STUDIO 42, PORT ST MARY//

Ellie Baker is a landscape artist who is inspired by the Isle of Man’s patchwork fields, rocky beaches, dramatic skies, ragged gorse and dry stone walls. She has been developing her distinct style for over ten years and has always worked in acrylic paint and in vivid colours. Ellie also includes Celtic and Viking motifs into some of her work, hidden in the form of lichen on rocks or hillside bracken. www.studio42gallery.co.uk/ www.facebook.com/Studio42IsleofMan/

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CHRIS KILLIP’S ISLE OF MAN REVISITED //MANX MUSEUM, DOUGLAS//

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BROADENING HORIZONS

//THE ISLE GALLERY, TYNWALD MILLS//

Brigid Stowell and Bryony Harrison are well established contemporary painters whose work fills the room with an explosion of colour and vibrancy.

This exhibition of new work takes both artists in new directions, promising to be an intimate look into recent changes and upheavals in their lives offering an honest interpretation of their worlds and a fabulous peek into what truly lies behind expressionistic painting.

There will be a chance to meet Brigid and Bryony to discuss their work over light refreshments at the Isle Gallery on Sunday 12 June, from 2pm. www.theislegallery.com www.facebook.com/theislegallery

25.06 – 25.09.2016

CREATIVE SUMMER

//MARKET HALL, DOUGLAS// A three month extravaganza from the Island’s creative industries, including visual art, architecture, design, performance, poetry, music and more.

Free entry, and every week is different.

24/25.06.2016

TURRYS – RUTH KEGGIN ALBUM LAUNCH //NOA BAKEHOUSE AND PEEL CENTENARY CENTRE// Popular Manx Gaelic singer/songwriter Ruth Keggin launches her second album at Noa Bakehouse (Friday) and the Peel Centenary Centre (Saturday).

Tickets are available from the venues, www.ruthkeggin.com and Celtic Gold, Shakti Man, Peter Norris and Thompson Travel.

every Friday

FRIDAY ART CINEMA //SAYLE GALLERY, DOUGLAS//

An eclectic selection of art films and films about art every Friday at 7.30pm.

See website for details. www.sayle.gallery

MANX ELECTRIC RAILWAY; PAST & PRESENT - NEW PUBLICATION Unpublished images of the Manx Electric Railway are rare. George Hobbs was lucky enough to be loaned some archive photographs of the MER, most of which had not been published before. He thought it would be interesting to set some of them next to modern photographs taken from the same place. It was!

Memory plays tricks on you and it is amazing how much has changed in the half century or so covered by the photographs. Edwardian rolling stock dwarfed by a ‘modern’ building which has since been demolished; antique vehicles trundling through countryside which is now a housing estate. Ironically the old rolling stock seems to be the only thing which has stayed the same. www.loaghtanbooks.com

THEATREFEST: THE JOURNEY CONTINUES New works for the theatre will continue to challenge and entertain Manx audiences with the announcement that TheatreFest16 is to be held over the weekend of September 23 to 25 and will take as its theme ‘journeys’.

The festival builds on the success of TheatreFest15, a legacy outcome from Island of Culture 2014 and the first of a five-year project sponsored by the Isle of Man Arts Council.

‘TheatreFest16 will continue that momentum of discovery and it’s against that background that we have chosen journeys for the theme for the 2016 programme which, in the main, will follow last year’s format but with one significant difference. This year’s works will not be performed at the Gaiety Theatre but at the Studio Theatre in Ballakermeen High School.

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CREATIVE SUMMER – A SEASON OF EVENTS AT THE MARKET HALL, DOUGLAS A bold and exciting initiative is taking place in Douglas over the summer, with a season of events taking place at the Market Hall from the end of June until September.

The individually themed weeks will include workshops, exhibitions, demonstrations and talks from on and off-Island experts featuring all aspects of the Creative Industries, from architecture to the

visual arts, fashion to performance, film, illustration and music, and much much more. And the last Friday of each month will be ‘Market Late’, a free event with music, food and drink.

The Market Hall is not only part of the Isle of Man College’s Art Department, but also a much loved part of the Douglas landscape, and this carefully curated season will show

off just how central the Creative Industries are to the Island’s economy, and how they impact on every part of our lives.

For more information on what’s happening and how you can get involved, check out the events on the Creative Season 2016 Facebook page.

MEMBERS OF THE CHOIR OF GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE INVITE YOU TO JOIN THEM FOR A MUSICAL EVENING WITH THE WESLEY FAMILY The famous Choir of Caius College, Cambridge (as it usually known) will be singing a series of Concerts throughout the Isle of Man, in early July, with daily Concerts from Monday, July 4th to Saturday, July 9th in Castletown, Peel, Malew, Douglas, Laxey and Ramsey. Each Concert will contain a different programme.

The Choir is well known internationally for their beautiful and often ground-breaking CDs, and under their renowned Director of Music, Dr Geoffrey Webber, who will direct the Choir, and also play the Organ, they will be presenting a fascinating “Musical Evening with the Wesley Family” - music by Charles, Jr., Samuel, and Samuel Sebastian, whose music is still frequently performed in Cathedrals and Churches throughout the world. There will also be music by Bach, Handel and Mendelssohn.

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discovered by the Wesley Scholar, John Nightingale, in the dusty vaults of the British Library, where the original hand-written manuscripts have only recently come to light. Each Concert will showcase some of these florid and extended Anthems, so the whole series will be heard across the six Concerts.

It is rare that newly discovered music from such a well-known source as the Wesley family comes to light, and reaches the performance stage in the hands of such accomplished singers as the Caius Choir, all Choral Scholars at Cambridge University.

Admission will cost £10 (£7 for the usual concessions). Tickets will be available from each Church in advance, or at the door, and Programmes will be given out on the day.

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THEATRE ON THE ROCKS BENEFITING TRI-ISLAND HOSPICES Hospice Isle of Man are delighted to be the beneficiary of a magnificent production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest at Peel Castle and Rushen Abbey.

TNT Theatre & ADG Europe have produced this play which will be performed on Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd July at Peel Castle with doors opening at 6pm and Rushen Abbey being the venue for an afternoon show on Sunday 24th July doors opening at 1pm.

Tickets are priced at £22 per adult and £12 per child.

MANX FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY’S FILM TO FEATURE AT CANNES A short film by Isle of Man production company Solus is to feature at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Written and produced by Alistair Audsley the film Leni. Leni has been selected for the Short Film Corner, an out-of-competition showcase for short films from around the world.

Filmed at Ealing Studios in 2015 Leni. Leni is a surreal biopic about Leni Riefenstahl, one of the most controversial film directors of the 20th century, who became famous as Hitler’s propagandist. Directed by wellknown British features director Adrian Vitoria (The Crew, Heist, Age of Heroes) and co-produced by Rosie Fellner of Rosebud Pictures, the film stars Hildegard Neil (Anthony and Cleopatra) and Russian star, Valeria Kozhevnikova.

Mr Audsley explained: ‘I’ve always found Leni a fascinating character in history; a genius filmmaker undone by her associations with the Third Reich.’

The story is based around Leni preparing for a famous interview she gave in 1993 at the UFA studios towards the end of her life. Left alone, she faces her inner demons: her younger self at different phases of her career.

He continued: ‘Casting was key as we had to have a younger version of Leni

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match with her older self and we were very fortunate to attach both Hildegard and Valeria. I think the film poster shows how perfectly matched they were and their performances were outstanding. It was a particular honour to work with Hildegard, who was a leading lady in the 1960s opposite the likes of Charlton Heston and Roger Moore - a real legend.

Tickets are available for purchase from The House of Manannan and Celtic Gold in Peel, Manx Museum and Peter Norris Music in Douglas, Shakti Man in Ramsey, Station Travel in Port Erin and Rushen Abbey or www. manxheritageshop.com This wonderful production is straplined as “Hell is Empty and all the Devils are here” should make interesting viewing.

Why not take a picnic and Prosecco?

‘We also managed to attract a top-level feature film crew, with a couple of Oscar nominees and BAFTA winners and with Technicolour providing post-production, I’m delighted with the finished film. It’s very much a creative showcase for everyone involved and I have high hopes for the international film festival circuit.’

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On Saturday 23rd April, World Book Night was celebrated by members of the public at the Henry Bloom Noble Library.

The event, which was sponsored by Sure, fell on the anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birthday as well as the 400th anniversary of his death. The evening was chaired by John Quirk who invited authors Rakie Keig, Michele McGrath and Michelle Tonnesen to share the inspiration behind their own books and to talk about their journey in the writing process. After a short reading from each of the books featured on the night the audience was invited to ask further questions. The evening featured a guest appearance by the Manx Bard, Stacey Astill, who performed her mind provoking poems around the theme of books and reading. At the end of the evening each member of the audience was delighted to receive a free book in the true spirit of World Book Night.

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Out of this world: Astronaut and artist Nicole Stott exhibits her work at the Sayle Gallery

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he view of Earth from her voyages on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station was, in Nicole’s own words, ‘awe-inspiring’ and she knew that once her astronaut days were over, she’d dedicate the rest of her life to sharing that experience with others.

‘Around the World in 90 Minutes: An Astronaut’s Perspective,’ now on at the Sayle Gallery until 26 June, is Nicole’s first exhibition and she’s delighted that it will be taking place in the Isle of Man: “The Island is a very special place – and not just because my husband Chris and his wonderful family are Manx. It is a place of outstanding beauty, in its landscapes and its people. I took a little bit of the Isle of Man with me into space, and now I’m happy to be bring my perspective of space back here.”

Nicole Stott is a veteran astronaut, with two space flights and 104 days of working and living in space. After 28 years with NASA, Nicole retired in 2015 to begin her next adventure as an artist, motivational speaker and passionate advocate for SciArt education, continuing to promote work being done in space to ultimately benefit everyone back on Earth.

Nicole will be on the Island during her exhibition and the Sayle Gallery is planning a number of ‘meet the artist’ sessions and talks. www.sayle.gallery

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An Island’s country lanes have nothing on America’s six lane freeways, (astonishingly) we decide to skip the plane and drive instead of fly. Some 60 minutes later, and the somewhat ‘lax’ Satnav finally points us in the right direction – the long stretch of tarmac between LA and Indio, a right of passage for many a cocktail caressing Californian or in this case, four friends about to embark on the trip of a lifetime.

ROCK REUNIONS AND DESERT DANCE PARTIES For two weekends every year, Indio, a small Southern California town, is transformed into the centre of the music world…after what seems like several weeks of planning, we’re now at the heart of it!

Checking into the JW Marriott on the eve of the festival, we spend the next few hours exploring the hotel’s vast grounds in a golf buggy, topping up our tans by the palm-lined pool (this hotel has three, some of which require a gondola to cross) and sipping on organic cocktails by the fire pit. We wake up refreshed and raring to go. Several outfit changes later and we’re ready to hit the desert in style.

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With a lengthy journey ahead of us, we decide to make it more of an adventure and less of a race. The windows are down, the DJ has been appointed and we’re all singing (albeit a little off tune) to a mix of rock, punk, pop, hip-hop and indie. Where are we heading? None other than Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, a celebration as diverse as it is demographic, and an event we’ve all been dying to tick off our bucket list since the age of 21.

Coachella can only be described as ‘a Californian desert extravaganza’ and one that is peppered with more stages, surprise guests and rising upstarts than you dare to imagine. With gourmet festival food and exclusive cocktail bars galore, you can dine on top nosh from over 40 different traders, not to mention three fine-dining restaurants and some unique pop-ups along the way. In three days, we sample everything from soya-stacked sushi to five bean tacos, to broccolini and goat’s cheese pizzas, coconut-infused juices and moreish margaritas — whether you’re a no-nonsense vegan, a gluten-free goddess or a meat-feasting music fanatic, we soon discover there is something for all.

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THE MUSIC Calvin Harris found love with Rihanna, Diplo teamed up with Major Lazer and Jack Ü, Guns N' Roses transformed the desert into a jungle, and Sia’s squad included none other than Kristen Wiig, Tig Notaro, Maddie Zieglar and Paul Dano. Needless to say we danced until daylight, inhaled our own body weight in dust and sang our hearts out until our voices were no more.

LOS ANGELES Next stop on our road trip? Los Angeles.

We soon come to realise this happening place has two very differ ent personalities!

The old Hollywood history and glamour, vegan attitude and white-sand beaches certainly make up for the claustrophobiaheavy crowds, dubious superheroes, tattoo parlours, gift shops and ragtag lingerie stores. All however make for the experience of a lifetime…

OUR FAVOURITE HANGOUT… Having a friend who has a friend who is best friends with a magician is sometimes all you need to embark on a (excuse the pun) magical evening…

The Magic Castle, with its labyrinth of rooms and old school glamour, is surreal, intriguing and opulent all at the same time. It’s also outrageously exclusive; entry is permitted solely to members and their guests through ushering the words ‘open sesame’ to a bookcase hidden in the wall.

Once inside we breathe in the rare memorabilia and magnificent posters; and soon discover magic shows that are more like miracles and full stage illusions that are all the rage. There’s even a piano that plays itself, or rather plays anything you ask it too…

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“ Needless to say we danced until daylight, inhaled our own body weight in dust and sang our hearts out until our voices were no more.”

WHERE WE ATE… Café Gratitude boasts a positive, flowerchild ambiance - think Disneyland gone vegan. The food (21 dishes between the four of us) was inventive, delightful and wholesome, with each offerin g brandishing a self-affi rming name, guaranteed to brighten up even the dullest of days... although, as we soon discover, there aren't many of these in L.A. As our server saddles up to our table in all his vegan glory, we order various fanciful titled dishes, brandishing names including ‘I Am Elated’ (enchiladas), ‘I am Thriving’ (butternut squash chipotle soup), and ‘I Am Transformed’ (corn tacos).

Before wandering offtoth e open plan kitchen, he gives us a question to ponder over whilst we wait for our food – ‘what are you thankful for?’ This question changes every day and is all part of the restaurant’s positivity campaign.

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THE MIAMI BEACH EDITION

2901 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida 33140

For reservations visit www.editionhotels.com Standard King starts at $429 per night

VEGAS Excited to start our next adventure, we pack up our worldly belongings and begin our journey to the top of Cajon Pass, just west of Interstate 15 and a short hop from Old Route 66 – a dirt track that wouldn’t go a miss in a classic country and western film. We pass old diners, an antique shop, an ostrich farm, the oldest meteorite in the world and what my trusty guidebook describes as, 'the diamond of the road' - the Bottletree Ranch - a jumble of metal trees dressed with ancient glass bottles. Our detour may have added an hour or two to the journey, yet it was certainly worth it for the photo opportunities.

Once in Vegas, we check into what appears to be a small city, which is in fact one of the smaller hotels on the strip. The next few days pass by like a whirlwind, we dine at all hours (think waffles oozing with maple syrup at 4am), spend our days soaking up the sun listening to the hot sounds of Avicii at one of Vegas’ most renowned pool parties, and our nights watching RiRi perform in the flesh. Two days later, we pack up our bags once again and head for the airport. Next stop…Miami.

MIAMI BEACH EDITION – A NEXT GENERATION URBAN RESORT They say that once you step inside the Miami Beach EDITION, there’s no need to leave. What they say is true. 24 hours later, we're still firmly ensconced in our new (somewhat elegant) home. In fact, we may have forgotten what the outside world looks like.

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Landscaped gardens inspired by the legendary 1950’s Tropicana Nightclub, two pools and private members beach encompass a well-dressed vibe. Inside, you'll discover two restaurants (one - JeanGeorges’ newest venture), a sophisticated spa, boutique shop, bowling alley and basement nightclub - with custom-made lightscape and state-of-the-art sound system. And that’s not all; this lower level is also home to a 2,000 square-foot ice rink brandishing a Patrick Woodroffeorchestrated LED show and a backdrop of Collins Av…what’s not to love about this lavishly lush, urban resort?

The hotel presents a meticulous renovation of the prestigious Seville Hotel, which was for many years, a global playground for the rich and famous. It’s kitschy, catchy, unconventional and engaging all at the same time. The staff not only look the part in their elegant crisp white ensembles, they act the part too, and are every bit as welcoming as you’d expect.

The Miami Beach EDITION’s magnificent features take inspiration from Donald Judd and Aldo Rossi; all pay homage to the original Seville establishment. 24-karat glass gold mosaic columns dominate the lobby, a mass of tropical custom-lit palm trees create an elegant glow, whilst oversized silk rugs, bleached rift-cut white oak and a diverse range of antiques add a vintage edge.

With its avant-garde façade – described by many as one of Miami Beach’s most distinguishing architectural delights – it is here well-designed simplicity encounters a dramatic pizazz. Everything about the EDITION oozes old-school glamour.

GOING HOME Finally time to say goodbye, we reluctantly pack up our things and board the ‘faster than lightening’ shuttle to the airport. Six plane journeys later, thousands of miles travelled and many memories made, it’s back to reality. Would I do it again? I’m already looking into options as we speak…

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The Lady Chauffeurs

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N ISLAND taxi firm has announced a new addition to its fleet - which has been specially named in honour of the Queen. ‘Elizabeth’, a Mercedes S-Class, is the latest car to begin service with The Lady Chauffeurs.

The all-female cab crew picked the name in honour of Queen Elizabeth’s 90th birthday on April 21st and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on the same day to mark the occasion. The announcement also coincides with news that the firm has doubled in size, having recently employed four new drivers to expand The Lady Chauffeurs’ coverage of the Island.

The new recruits all have a background in serving air passengers, as cabin crew and joined in the special occasion at Ronaldsway Airport.

£1,750 in cash prizes up for grabs to aspiring creatives in Ashgrove Awards

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ull service agency Ashgrove Marketing has announced £1,750 in cash prizes for the Ashgrove Creative Awards, a competition which seeks to unearth creative new talent on the Isle of Man. Open to anyone over the age of 16 who doesn’t use their artistic talent as their main source of income, the Ashgrove Creative Awards offer the chance for aspiring creatives to unleash their imagination and show how they could bring a brand or campaign to life.

Winners of each of the six categories will receive £250 and see their work showcased in Gallery magazine. An additional £250 prize will be given to the “People’s Choice” award, as voted by Ashgrove’s social media followers, and the overall winner, drawn from all categories, will receive a threemonth internship at Ashgrove Marketing’s headquarters in Tromode to help launch them on their way to a career in marketing, PR or the creative arts.

The cash prizes have been made possible by the generous sponsorship of local businesses including Boston, Ramsey Crookall, Sure, Thomas Patrick and Matt Mosur Photography.

Ashgrove Creative Awards coordinator Callum Finch says: “I would like to say a massive thank you to all our sponsors for

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supporting the awards. They have enabled us to show aspiring creatives that their ‘hobbies’ can become careers. Creativity, innovation and passion are hugely attractive qualities to employers and the Ashgrove Creative Awards brings out these qualities. If we can help realise the potential of even one local person and show them that they can make a living doing what they love then we have achieved our goal.”

Entrants can submit a piece of work in any of six categories. These include: Copywriting. Writing with an agenda for advertising, PR, websites, SEO or creative campaigns.

Design and Branding. Exploring imagery to showcase brands. Submissions in this category could include photo manipulation, branding, an advertising campaign or a corporate brochure.

Innovation. Anything from start-up ideas to a new use of technology.

Multimedia. Video, animation, film, apps and games.

Online and Digital. This could include social media campaigns, website designs or an online marketing campaign.

Photography. Using the perfect image to express an idea or product, design an advert, present an art direction or showcase a brand.

The closing date for the Ashgrove Creative Awards is Monday 8th August 2016. More information and entry details are on www.ashgrovemarketing.im/aca Sponsorship opportunities are still available. Please contact Callum Finch at callum@ashgrovemarketing.com or call 645390.

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Creechurch Capital shortlisted in The Citywealth Brand Management and Reputation Awards

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Claremont invests further £1m in business visitor upgrades

he Claremont, the Isle of Man’s premier luxury 4-star hotel, has announced a further £1m investment in a series of new executive suites and an upgrade to its conference and banqueting facilities.

This follows an earlier £2.0m investment in the hotel during 2012-2013 which saw the Claremont firmly established as the Island’s top business visitor accommodation, attracting a raft of highly prestigious industry awards.

Work will begin later this year on the new suites which will each feature a separate lounge as well as a luxury bedroom space. The interiors have been developed by the same European architects, Bernreider, Sieweke-Lagemann

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The new executive suites will include luxury fittings, hypoallergenic finishes, super-king sized beds with Tempur® pressure relieving mattresses, Hungarian goose down pillows, Amazon waterfall-style showers and a range of Aveda® botanical toiletries.

Guests will enjoy full connectivity with Smart TVs, multi-media desk and complimentary superfast broadband from a dedicated 100mps hotel connection.

Each suite is expected to feature a bespoke mural reflecting an iconic Isle of Man image.

NEDBANK PRIVATE WEALTH WINS BEST UK PRIVATE BANK FOR SECOND YEAR RUNNING

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edbank Private Wealth has won Best UK Private Bank for a second year running at the prestigious City of London Wealth Management Awards 2016. The awards were announced in April at a Gala Dinner at The Guildhall, which was hosted by BBC news presenter, Sophie Raworth.

Greg Horton, Nedbank Private Wealth’s international executive head, said: “The purpose of the City of London Wealth Management Awards is to recognise and promote quality of service from wealth management companies and individuals.

What is particularly satisfying is that the winners are determined by a public online vote and the poll is reviewed by an independent panel of judges. The fact that so many of our UK clients and contacts have made time to go online and actively support us speaks volumes about how much respect they have for us and how much they value our behaviours. We are so grateful to them and will continue to always strive to put their interests beyond all others.

“This award represents a strong, independent endorsement of our team’s

reechurch Capital has received another shortlist, this time at the Citywealth Brand Management and Reputation Awards under the ‘Overall Marketing Campaign’ category.

The shortlisting is in recognition of the company’s marketing campaigns highlighting the ongoing commitment to deliver personalised and bespoke services to all clients. With a tailored approach at the forefront, Creechurch is able to provide unique solutions for clients’ requirements and deliver added value.

Mary Brady, COO of Creechurch Capital, said: “We have been recognised

by Citywealth before and are thrilled to be shortlisted again in their recent awards. Whilst we maintain our boutique approach, this shortlisting acknowledges that we have a truly international outlook, and the calibre of our fellow shortlistees demonstrates that we are competing with some truly big names in the industry.”

ongoing commitment to providing exemplary service. It also reflects our unique integrated banking and wealth management service, Focus, which can be tailored to suit each client’s individual financial needs.

Within Focus, clients can choose from an extensive range of financial services including international banking, global discretionary and execution-only investment dealing and settlement services.”

Stephen Pinner, managing director of Goodacre UK, the leading specialist business and technology consultancy behind the awards, said: “Winning a City of London Wealth Management Award is significant proof of distinction for the best companies and individuals providing services for private investors. The fact that winners are determined by individual votes is a huge endorsement for all winners.” agenda

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RBS International investing over £4 million to improve service for their customers

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Crowe Clark Whitehill financial reporting update seminar hailed a success

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seminar organised by Crowe Clark Whitehill to provide an update on the changing Financial Reporting Standards required under the new UK GAAP, (Generally Accepted Accounting Practice in the UK), has been hailed a success.

More than 150 accountancy professionals gathered at the Claremont Hotel for the seminar which built on the firm’s introductory UK GAAP ‘call to action’ session held in May 2015.

Director Debbie Clague said: ‘Crowe Clark Whitehill strongly believes in supporting clients and industry in whatever way we can. We saw this seminar, which we offered free of charge, as a means to help clients and professionals alike with the complexities of these latest FRS (Financial Reporting Standards) requirements. You

want to be able to rely on your accountants to fully understand and apply the new standards, and we wanted to share our experiences in dealing with their application so far.

‘Financial reporting is continually changing and Crowe Clark Whitehill is here to help clients and companies respond to those changes.

‘By arranging this seminar, Crowe Clark Whitehill’s aims were to bring clarity to the key issues, identify areas of common concern and alert clients and professionals to the consequences and implications of the changes to UK GAAP to help them to make informed decisions. Judging from the level of positive feedback we’ve received, we have hopefully succeeded in achieving those aims.’ www.crowecw.im

RL360° achieves 21% growth in 2015

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L360° achieved 21% growth in new business in 2015, with sales in PVNBP* terms hitting £715m.

This was up from 2014’s figure of £591m, fuelled by a strong regular premium (RP) performance. RP sales soared by 67%, from £141m in 2014 to £236m last year.

The results for 2015 also reveal Single Premium (SP) sales are up from £450m in 2014 to £479m, a 6% increase.

New business results were particularly strong in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.

The achievement comes in a year of significant development for the RL360° Group, which completed the acquisition of CMI Insurance Company Limited (CMI)

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from Lloyds Banking Group plc late last year. The acquisition of CMI - now renamed RL360 Life Insurance Company Limited and operating under the brand name RL360° Services – creates a combined group with $10bn in assets under management, circa 60,000 policies and 300 staff.

BS International is completely overhauling their Isle of Man Bank Athol Street branch and the floors above to create a modern banking centre.

Their NatWest branch will be moving from its existing premises on Victoria Street to utilise these new facilities and create a new NatWest branch experience.

Their Regent Street branch will also be refurbished to improve the banking facilities for their customers and to host more of their customer facing teams in one place.

They are also recruiting a new team of 20 to deal with specialist risk services based in their Howard Pearson House building, consolidating that expertise into the Isle of Man from their other jurisdictions.

“We are starting our branch modernisation programme in the Isle of Man and intend to build a world class modern banking centre in the heart of Douglas. Far too often companies invest in building head offices rather than investing in the customer. The days of banking in remote head offices are over for RBS International. Our customers and colleagues are incredibly loyal and passionate about their bank and this investment is designed to make it easier for everyone to go about their business.”

“Once again it has been a busy and successful year for RL360°,” said Chief Executive David Kneeshaw. “The acquisition of CMI and subsequent rebrand to RL360° Services has made us stronger, increasing our book of business and allowing us to integrate an experienced workforce to help support continued growth. The 2015 results, continue our record of year on year growth. Our 2015 RP performance is reason to celebrate and the increase in SP sales in a very competitive market is equally pleasing.

“Our sights are now set firmly on pushing forward with new developments, such as our online applications, and on ensuring we continue to provide the best service and standards for our supporting advisers and their policyholders.”

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Manx Telecom staff awards reflect core values

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Darren Shaw, Global Solutions Business Development Manager, winner of the Enterprising Award.

Lisa Pugh, Consumer Sales Clerical Officer, winner of the Confident Award.

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our Manx Telecom staff received awards for their outstanding work, with each winner reflecting one of the company’s core values - enterprising, proactive, confident and trusted. The presentations were recently made at the annual motivational event and staff briefing, held over three days at the Palace Hotel in Douglas.

Winners were chosen by a judging panel of directors from 38 nominations made by colleagues. Each winner received a custom made wooden trophy made by The Manx Workshop and £500.

Manx Telecom Chief Executive Officer Gary Lamb said: “This was the fourth consecutive year we have held our annual ‘staff briefing’ event and, as always, it was a great opportunity to thank our colleagues for their hard work and recognise outstanding achievements. It’s important for us to invest time in this type of event so that everyone understands where Manx Telecom is heading, the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, and the role that each of us must play in delivering our business objectives. But equally it’s

New post created due to continued growth at Sure

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ure has promoted Paul Marriott to the newly-created position of head of enterprise sales.

Mr Marriott has worked for Sure since 2009 following a 25 year career working in relationship management in the local telecoms and IT sectors.

In his new role he is responsible for Sure’s enterprise sales team and oversees the company’s relationships with hundreds of businesses in the Isle of Man.

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Paul Jones, Senior Field Technician, winner of the Proactive Award.

Luke Rowe, Mobile Networks Technical Specialist, winner of the Trusted Award.

an opportunity to listen and learn from our colleagues across the business, and celebrate everything which makes Manx Telecom a great company to be part of.” www.manxtelecom.com/careers

Mr Marriott’s role has been created as a result of increased business for the local telecoms services provider, which was able to offer independent fixed line services for the first time in 2015.

Mike Phillips, chief executive of Sure Isle of Man, said: “Paul’s hard work and dedication over the past seven years make him fully deserving of this promotion.

“I’ve had a 20 year working relationship with Paul and know that he’s the right man to lead our enterprise team through this period of expansion.

“This newly-created role is the consequence of our continued growth in the island, where we now offer a full range of enterprise solutions and managed services for business customers of all sizes.”

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ROGER SIDDLE APPOINTED ESTERA CHAIRMAN

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r Siddle brings a wealth of expertise to Estera as it embarks on its journey as an independent fiduciary business.

His experience covers a range of business areas, including strategy, performance and change management, gained from various professional roles as an advisor, professional services manager and public company chief executive.

Sir Miles Walker to step down from Manx Telecom Board

Sean Dowling, Managing Director of Estera Trust (Isle of Man), said: ‘Estera here in the Isle of Man and across the global group has ambitious plans and the appointment of Roger Siddle not only signals our determined intentions to grow the business, but also further strengthens the leadership of our firm with the addition of such experience and expertise.’

Commenting on his appointment, Mr Siddle said: ‘It is an honour and a pleasure to have been appointed chairman of Estera at such a pivotal time in its history. I am looking forward to working with a great team and playing my part in helping guide the company to further its success as an independent fiduciary business.’

Farah Ballands, CEO of Estera, added: ‘On behalf of Estera I am delighted to welcome Roger to the team. His significant board experience, knowledge of our dynamic industry and personal qualities will be invaluable in accelerating Estera’s growth ambitions globally, while continuing to deliver quality results for our clients.’

Estera, formerly Appleby Fiduciary Business, completed its management buyout from the Appleby Group in December 2015.

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ormer Chief Minister Sir Miles Walker CBE has announced that he is to step down from the Manx Telecom Board after 13 years with the Company. He was appointed in 2003 as a Non-Executive Director and served as Chairman from June 2010 until the Company became an AIM-listed PLC in February 2014.

Paying tribute to Sir Miles, Kevin Walsh, Manx Telecom Non-Executive Chairman, said: “Sir Miles’s time on the Board has been an era of significant change for the telecoms industry, and for Manx Telecom. As a Board member, his wealth of knowledge and experience has helped to ensure that we serve the best interests of the Isle of Man, our customers and our people. On behalf of everyone at Manx Telecom, I thank him for his invaluable contribution.”

Sir Miles commented: “Long before I joined the Board, I recognised the vital role which Manx Telecom played in the Island’s development. The provision of first class telecommunications services has always been fundamental to the Isle of Man’s growth as a successful offshore jurisdiction. The telecoms industry has undergone revolutionary changes in recent years, especially the growth in mobile communications, and I’m very proud of the contribution the Company has made to the Island’s economic development.”

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Councillor John Skinner elected Mayor of Douglas

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ouncillor John Skinner has been elected Mayor of Douglas for the 2016-2017 municipal year.

Members of the council voted unanimously to elect Councillor Skinner at a statutory public council meeting held on Wednesday May 11, 2016.

Councillor Skinner will be supported by his wife, Gillian Skinner, as mayoress. Councillor Ann Corlett will serve as deputy mayor and Wendy Caulfield as deputy mayoress.

The Rev John Coldwell will serve as mayor’s chaplain.

In his proposer’s speech Councillor David Ashford said Councillor Skinner had shown ‘great dedication to our borough’ over the four years he had served a member of the council, helping to identify and implement savings, latterly in his role as chairman of the regeneration and community committee. agenda

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Creechurch Capital continues expansion with latest appointments

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From kitchen to front of HAUS

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xperienced local chef Claire Duke has joined the team at Braddan-based kitchen and bathroom specialist HAUS, bringing with her a wealth of knowledge in catering and cookware.

Claire, who was previously a senior sous chef at the Hilton Hotel and sous chef at the Regency Hotel on Douglas promenade, will initially manage HAUS’s new tableware and cookware department.

HAUS Sales Director Bob Love said: “Claire is an excellent chef and will be a

huge asset to our showroom, bringing with her technical and trade skills which she can use to enhance our customer experience.”

After 25 years trading under the In-toto franchise, HAUS is now an independent supplier of quality kitchens, bathrooms and, most recently, bedrooms.

Claire said: “I’m really looking forward to meeting new clients and getting back in the kitchen! I’m excited about tapping in to new people and developing new ideas.”

New Principal for University College Isle of Man (UCM)

iscretionary fund manager, Creechurch Capital, has made a duo of appointments, with the hiring of Emily Garrett as management accountant within the finance team and Annette Ferguson as assistant portfolio manager.

Emily joins from Sanctuary Trust Limited where she was the chief financial officer. Joining the business at a time of growth, she brings with her a wealth of experience in regulated entity financial reporting. Outside of the office, Emily is a trustee of Naseem’s Manx Brain Tumour Charity and is the treasurer for the Isle of Man Athletics Associations.

Joining the business with eleven years’ experience, the team welcomes Annette from Barclays Wealth where she was a treasury specialist and dealer.

Throughout her career she has built a stellar reputation with premier and corporate clients, providing bespoke solutions. Her experience is a fantastic fit with Creechurch Capital’s values and ethos of providing all clients with a personalised approach for wealth protection.

Speaking of the latest appointments, Mary Brady, COO at Creechurch Capital said: “We are delighted to welcome Emily and Annette on-board. These key appointments will strengthen our team during this time of expansion for Creechurch Capital. We now have a reputable presence spanning the globe as the business continues to thrive on an international stage, establishing the Isle of Man’s presence as a global centre for excellence. We will continue to nurture and grow talent from the Island with a global outlook.”

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he newly rebranded University College Isle of Man (UCM) will have a new principal from September 2016.

Jo Pretty moves to the Island from Lowestoft College, which she has headed for two years.

Jo spent 17 years in the private and public sector, with roles in the NHS, utilities, engineering and manufacturing and recruitment. She owned and ran a design and steel fabrication company.

She joined education as a higher education lecturer and moved into adult education, then qualified as a secondary school teacher before switching to her current field of further education and skills.

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Norwich, she had strategic leadership of a £10 million portfolio comprising engineering, construction, business, creative arts, retail and enterprise.

L-R: Emily Garrett, Mary Brady and Annette Ferguson

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stera, formerly known as Appleby Fiduciary Business, celebrated the launch of its new brand and identity last month with four glittering celebrations in New York, London, Bermuda and the Isle of Man. The local event saw more than 90 guests join the Estera Isle of Man team to celebrate the brand launch at the Courthouse in Douglas on Thursday 19 May. Sean Dowling, Managing Director of Estera in the Isle of Man, welcomed guests to the event and commented: ‘We are delighted and proud to launch Estera and to have the opportunity to share our celebrations with our valued clients and intermediaries in the Isle of Man. It is an exciting time for the business and we wanted to ensure that our important partners had the chance to hear more about our vision for the future’. Guests were treated to drinks and canapés along with an impressive show by world-renowned magician David Penn, who appeared on ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent. Sean continued: ‘Our rebrand presents a significant opportunity to build on the strong reputation we have already achieved in the Isle of Man. The growth plans for our business will focus on the alignment of our people, clients and jurisdictions to provide a standard of service that sets us apart.

I am looking forward to the opportunities this will bring for our people and our clients’. The name Estera was inspired by an internal staff competition.

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For better or worse, the nature of money is changing

The benefits of scrapping cash Words: Gillian Tett (FT)

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ohn Cryan, co-head of Deutsche Bank, is not a man given to hyperbole. A couple of weeks ago, however, he made a comment about money that might make ordinary mortals blink.

Speaking on a financial technology panel at Davos, he cheerfully predicted that in a decade’s time cash probably won’t exist. Yes, you read that right: all those grubby greenbacks and tattered euro bills in your wallet are heading for the dustbin of history. “There is no need for it,” Mr Cryan declared. “It is terribly inefficient and expensive.” Can we believe him? Not if you look at the data.

It is true that in recent decades, as electronic finance has taken hold, our use of cash has been declining. According to the Bank for International Settlements, outstanding cash in circulation was 7.9 per cent of gross domestic product in the largest 19 economies in 2014, the most recent available data; in 2010 it was 8.4 per cent.

But what is striking is not the fact that cash use has declined but how slow — and uneven — this trend has been.

Indeed, if you look at the total volume of cash in circulation, rather than cash as a percentage of GDP, Sweden is the only leading western economy where it has recently declined. Elsewhere it has been rising. In Japan, Switzerland, the eurozone and the UK, the ratio of cash to GDP has actually grown.

In Japan today cash in circulation is more than 20 per cent of GDP, while in Switzerland the ratio is above 10 per cent.

In the UK, this ratio is 3.7 per cent, higher than in 2010. Those smartphone bank accounts and innovations in blockchain technology might look flashy but they have not killed off paper money. Yet.

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Why? It is partly down to consumer habit, coupled with a popular mistrust of banks in countries such as Japan that have suffered financial busts. Another factor is that millions of poor households, even in America, still do not use banks. Criminals, terrorists and tax-evaders also tend to use cash for their operations, particularly large denomination bills.

The other factor, though, is the behaviour of central banks themselves.

One unintended consequence of superloose monetary policy is that it has reduced incentives for consumers to store their money in banks. With low interest rates in many developed economies, and negative rates in places such as Switzerland and Japan, savers are likely to find they receive negligible returns or may even be penalised with charges. This may be boosting cash usage, too, although nobody knows exactly to what degree.

But the really interesting thing is what happens in the next few years. For there are at least three situations bubbling that could yet change this dynamic and prove Mr Cryan at least partly right.

First, and most obviously, digital and cyber finance is spreading rapidly. Second, some governments are belatedly realising that reduced use of cash is helpful in terms of security and fighting crime. After all, drug dealers and Islamist militants generally do not use bank accounts or mobile payments. So one way to cut terrorism and crime might be to withdraw the big denomination bills they prefer.

The European Commission is already pondering this: it announced this week that WEALTH & INVESTMENT

“One way to cut terrorism and crime might be to withdraw the big denomination bills”

it is looking at whether to curtail the use of €500 notes. This seems a sensible step, one that other governments should consider.

The third factor that could influence cash usage in the next few years is, again, the stance of central banks themselves.

As rates turn negative, central bankers in places such as Switzerland are scrambling to prevent consumers dashing into cash as this not only makes financial transactions less efficient but also makes monetary policy less effective. After all, if people hold physical cash — which, unlike a bank account, is not directly affected by negative rates — central bankers have less control.

So far, nobody has seriously tried to ban cash to make negative rates more effective.

But the idea has been floated by people such as Andy Haldane, Bank of England chief economist, and Kenneth Rogoff, the Harvard economist. The idea still seems far-fetched — but the longer rates stay low or negative the more “unthinkable” proposals could become mainstream and (if nothing else) prompt official support for electronic finance.

It may take longer than a decade for Mr Cryan’s prediction to come to pass; but it would be dangerous to discount it.

For better or worse, the nature of money is changing. And who knows? If this revolution helps curtail tax evasion and terrorist finance — and makes our lives more convenient along the way, too — it might turn out to be one of the better developments to have emerged from the finance industry in recent years. agenda

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Brexit: the first 100 minutes

If Britons opt to leave the European Union in June, predictive articles entitled “Brexit: the first 100 days” will appear soon after. Lombard likes to get its retaliation in first, and with greater precision than rivals. Here, as sterling hits a 10-week peak on abating Brexit fears, is our timeline for the first 100 minutes supposing a shock decision to leave is announced.

1 min — Currency investors dump sterling. The pound slumps 20 per cent against the dollar and 10 per cent versus the euro.

2 mins — Exporters wonder whether a short-term currency fillip outweighs the long-term blight of trade-deal renegotiation. They decide it doesn’t.

3 mins — The stock market plunges.

Despite a fervent personal belief in the UK’s prospects as a proud independent nation, investors switch out of domestically oriented shares such as Next and into US-focused businesses like Prudential Plc and Ashtead.

10 mins The BBC website, as is customary in such circumstances, illustrates a snap report on market mayhem with an irrelevant photo of copper traders at the London Metal Exchange.

20 mins — Lord Rose gives up the unequal struggle to remember the name of the pro-EU business group of which he is chairman.

30 mins — Paris Charles de Gaulle implements its Brexit contingency plan. The airport sets up a special queue for Britons seeking admission to France marked with an eye-catching “position fermé” sign.

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40 mins — Specialists in eurodenominated securities at the City offices of Deutsche Bank light candles at a shrine bedecked with union jacks and expired Oyster cards. One recalls visiting quite a lively bar in Frankfurt once. He can’t remember its name.

50 mins — Ugly scenes at the stationery cupboard at Credit Suisse in Canary Wharf, as traders fight over a fast-depleting stash of banker’s boxes.

60 mins — The Irish Development Agency books an extra stand at the 2017 Mipim property fest.

80 mins — Albanian prime minister Edi Rama sends David Cameron a friend request on Facebook. Mr Cameron resigns.

90 mins — Sensing a buying opportunity, Pimco of the US sweeps into the UK bond market while Norges Bank Investment Management fills its boots with equities. What’s the big deal with this EU thing anyway?

100 mins — Sterling rallies. Boris Johnson announces his candidacy to lead the Tories and the country.

Sterling craters again.

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For retirement riches, you need to take risk Short-term stock market wobbles have little effect on our long term future Words: Don Ezra (FT)

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n general, we don’t save enough to afford the same post-retirement standard of living as we had before retirement, if we retire as early as we want to. That’s why we take investment risk.

So how much do we need to save? A little arithmetic sheds a great deal of light.

To keep it simple, let’s assume a 25-year-old is given pay increases in line with inflation and saves 5 per cent of their income each year, investing it safely to earn a return in line with inflation but nothing more: a 0 per cent “real” return. At 65, after 40 years of toil, this saver will have a lump sum equal to 40 multiplied by 5 per cent equalling 200 per cent of final pay.

This generates a 20-year (inflationindexed) drawdown equal to 200 per cent divided by 20 equalling 10 per cent of final pay each year, if the assets continue to earn a real 0 per cent return.

So if you want a 40 per cent drawdown (four times as much) after age 65, you need to save four times as much: 20 per cent of your income a year. Of course, there’s the state pension too. But this example should prove a real eye-opener about how expensive it is to save for a comfortable retirement.

We either have to save more than 20 per cent, retire later, or take on more investment risk, in the hope and expectation of creating a multiplier effect from investment returns.

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the long term, returns won’t match expectations. The traditional way risk is expressed, in most investment situations, is via short-term volatility - which actually has very little impact on our long-term future.

This distinction (long-term versus short-term) is captured in a little gem of a book called Deep Risk, by William Bernstein (disclosure: I don’t know the author, but I love his entire series of brief books).

He distinguishes between “shallow risk” and “deep risk”. Shallow risk is the risk that we’re forced to interact with the market at a bad time. We’re forced to buy right after the market has gone up, or to sell right after it’s gone down. Yes, it makes sense for volatility to be a good measure of shallow risk. Much of what’s called “modern portfolio theory” is based on this concept.

But it’s an avoidable risk, as I’ll show.

Deep risk is much more serious. It’s the risk that the economy, and therefore the stock market, doesn’t perform over the long term. This is what places us all in retirement jeopardy. And sadly it’s unavoidable.

Mr Bernstein identifies four possible causes. Fancifully, think of them as the four horsemen of the deep risk apocalypse: inflation, deflation, confiscation (taxation) and devastation (wars and natural disasters). How likely are they to happen, and what can we do as a partial hedge against each of them? Read his 50-page ON THE AGENDA

“It makes sense for volatility to be a good measure of shallow risk. Much of what’s called “modern portfolio theory” is based on this concept. But it’s an avoidable risk”

book for the full answer. But here’s my very quick summary.

He sees inflation as the most likely disaster for investors, followed by confiscation, with deflation and devastation as the least likely - at least in the US. Mr Bernstein also sees inflation as having (relatively) the lowest cost of hedging against. His study suggests that partial hedges against inflation are to invest in global equities, commodities producers and index-linked gilts.

Against confiscation (both direct and indirect taxation on savers, such as the UK and US current regimes of financial repression), few would be willing to move abroad or renounce citizenship. In which case he thinks the sensible long-term partial hedge is to invest in foreign-held assets and property.

A partial hedge against long-term deflation is more costly. He suggests global equities, long gilts, savings bonds or fixed term deposit accounts (short-term assets) and gold.

And against devastation: quite simply, foreign-held assets - a hedge against local devastation only, of course.

If you follow his thought process, you design an aggregate portfolio that offers you some chance of partially hedging against these forms of deep risk. And every investment in your portfolio will have a specific job description: your partial way to survive the worst effects of deep risk WEALTH & INVESTMENT

while giving you a hope and expectation of thriving if deep risk never occurs.

How can you escape shallow risk?

In the accumulation phase, you don’t really need to. It has little effect because you’re investing regularly. Volatility just means that sometimes you’ll buy high and sometimes low. Americans call this “dollar cost averaging” and have analysed it thoroughly.

In the decumulation phase, I partially avoid shallow risk personally by having five years of spending in savings bonds or fixed-term deposit accounts: my fiveyear spending “ladder”. Each year, the ladder naturally shortens by one year. If markets are good, I’ll extend it by a year, back to five. If markets have fallen, I’ll wait for a recovery. My risk, of course, is that there’ll be five years without a recovery.

Then I’m in trouble - but by then I think of it as unavoidable deep risk anyway, on which the rest of my portfolio is focused.

Mr Bernstein thinks of shallow risk as extending for perhaps 30 years. But at least I’ve kept shallow risk at bay for five years.

I wish I could afford something closer to 15 years. But holding the required amount in savings bonds or fixed term deposit accounts wouldn’t give me enough exposure to the long-term growth I still hope for.

Don Ezra is the former co-chairman of global consulting for Russell Investments worldwide, and the author of “Happiness: The Best is Yet to Come”. agenda

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Our advice to this is to consider firstly whether you can turn your idea into a business?

To do this you need to: 1. Research your market and potential customers 2. Make a plan and test it 3. Identify partners and suppliers 4. Consider the legal structure including registration for tax 5. Establish a financial plan including sourcing finance

For some people starting a business may be perceived as the best way of obtaining work. For others, it may be that they want to be in charge of their own destiny. You need a very strong worth ethic and also have a certain attitude to risk in order to transition to success. Once you are confident your idea can work, then the plan needs to be implemented. A written business plan will greatly assist with implementation but it should be noted that any plan needs to be somewhat fluid to take into account changes in circumstances that may happen.

Monitoring the financial performance of the business is also essential and in this respect having periodic statistics such as management accounts are important to understand what is working and what is not so that action can be taken as appropriate.

Finally, a mentor is important as a sounding board and for advice. This may be a family member experienced in business, or an accountant or business advisor. Listen carefully, but make your own decisions!

Do you have a question for the current affairs panel?

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Tim Rattray

Managing Director, Rossborough Isle of Man

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ardly a week goes by without news of another cyber attack hitting the headlines. Indeed last year one of the UK’s eminent cyber experts claimed there are now two types of businesses in the UK – those who have been hacked and know they have been hacked, and those who have been hacked and don’t yet know it!

It is vital that all companies, irrespective of size, bring the matter of IT security into the boardroom. Criminals will often target smaller companies because they are less likely to have the biggest and best IT security. Directors need to understand where their vulnerabilities lie and do all they can to prevent a loss through a cyber attack. In particular they need to educate their staff not to blindly open emails, what to look out for and how to deal with suspicious email as this is a recognised area of weakness.

A good quality cyber insurance policy is also essential. This will cover the company’s legal liability to Third Parties (such as being sued after accidentally sending a virus to a contact or for ‘allowing’ a hacker to gain access to sensitive client information). It will also cover First Party losses to the company in having to repair or reinstate data or pay a ransom demand. In some sectors, it may even refund money taken out of bank accounts by hackers.

Prevention is clearly better than cure but a Cyber Risks Policy can provide invaluable back up should the worst occur.

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Jennifer Houghton Managing Director, Annexio

How will Britain leaving the EU affect regulation on the Isle of Man?

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rom a secondary lottery service and wider eGaming perspective, a potential Brexit does not pose an immediate threat to Isle of Man companies and their ability to trade, nor for the regulators on the Isle of Man. There is a danger however that over time a regulatory divergence could develop between the UK and the EU which would lead to issues with future trade in the EU, either for the UK or the Isle of Man, and the regulators on the island may need to perform a balancing act between meeting both UK and EU regulations. Of course this doesn’t just apply to the eGaming sector For the eGaming sector itself one of the more immediate aspects is the strategies that the Isle of Man companies have used to trade and to be regulated within the EU. Some have done this with a UK license, and clearly the terms of the UK exit from the EU could have a potential effect on those companies if there are restrictions imposed on the UK’s dealings with the EU under any new agreement. However under EU law there is a two year negotiating period under which the shape of the new arrangement would become clearer, and which would give eGaming companies a window to develop new strategies if required.

Businesses which hold licences in other EU member states would continue to have a direct relationship with those jurisdictions and would still be able to provide cross border services in the EU, however they may need to reconsider their UK market strategy.

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CAN YOU BECOME A MANX STARTISAN AND JOIN THE LOCAL FOOD REVOLUTION?

A family affair and a people business!

Words: Les Able

This is Robinson’s, one of the Island’s oldest companies which can boast of a legacy stretching back to the 1880s and is today thriving in the very capable hands of the fifth generation of the same family.

The business was started in 1886 by Mary McGreevy, a market trader in Douglas who married James Robinson, and it is her descendants, brothers John, Tony and Michael Horsthuis who now hold the reins which steer Robinson’s in the 21st century.

Looking into the future, however, it is again a woman who has a key role to play in the growth spiral of one of the Island’s oldest companies. Janna, one of John’s three daughters, is the only female director in a senior management team which includes other members of the family along with three employees who have been with the business for more than 30 years.

“I’m quite vocal and challenge things and being a member of the family gives me an added advantage,” says 35-year-old Janna who, after university, was initially looking to go into the police force.

“Janna asked for the chance to work in the business and was given that opportunity under Tony Fox and Linda Stanton so I blame them for any bad habits she picked up,” laughs John. “It was nine years before she became a director and she has more than proved herself as has her husband Ross and my other son-in-law Matthew who are both part of the team which will take the business forward in an ever changing world.”

There is much good humoured banter and repartee between father and daughter. Of her being the only female director he replies, “She is the only one “bolshy enough.” T his prompts an equally swift response from Janna, “I’m the only one crazy enough to be with this lot on a daily basis.”

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“...like so many of the people who work here, have been loyal to us and we are loyal to them, the biggest asset is your people ”

Looking across at her father and grinning she adds: “Like him, I have no patience, I’ll want something done there and then. Mum will say ‘you’re just like your father’. As for working together, along with uncles Tony, Michael and Peter plus other family members, we see each other all the time. We have a great relationship and that applies to the whole management team.”

This is a team which also includes employees who are now directors having been with the company for more than 30 years; Noel O’Reilly, Tony Wilson-Spratt and Tony Fox (now a consultant).

“They, like so many of the people who work here, have been loyal to us and we are loyal to them, the biggest asset is your people,” says John who, although 65, is someone who swiftly dismisses any suggestion of retirement and is buoyed by the assurance from Janna that she would miss him when “not here for valuable advice and contacts”!

When it comes to the workforce, John says: “We probably have the best employee retainment in the Isle of Man. What makes us what we are is the people who work here and many of them are friends.

Everyone who works here knows they have a key role to play in growing the business and we strive to make sure everyone feels valued, pulls together and enjoys their work.”

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There is an open and informed relationship between John and the 170 employees and as you are shown round the 55,000 sq ft depot in Cooil Road he seems to know everyone by their first n ame. For him the word ‘staff’ is anathema. At Robinson’s there is most definitely not a ‘them’ and ‘us’ structure. “ There is always terrific enthusiasm in a working environment that is ever changing with new customers and new people. The biggest change, which will come next year, is a new IT system, it’s a massive investment but the benefits should be rapidly apparent to our customers.”

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John continues: “We have listened to our customers as part of the relationship we have with them and we will certainly change as the Island changes. If we don’t have the product they want we will source it. We are handling more speciality foods and goods and have some 6,000 lines at our Cooil Road Store and take around 600 orders a day from 5am to 11pm for the food service with 20 vans delivering p roducts to over 90 per cent of businesses, schools, shops, hotels and caterers throughout the Island.”

The family attributes business instincts to the brothers’ late father Johan. “He was a very straight talking Dutchman with good instincts which he taught us,” says John.

Their mother, now 88, worked in the business until she was 72 and every Sunday the brothers regularly have dinner with her at a local restaurant when the family will bring her up to date on what’s been happening in Robinson’s over the past week. “She still takes a very keen interest in the business,” declares John.

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with major retailers, including Shoprite.

Robinson’s relationship with the Nicholson family, who founded Shoprite in 1972, goes back over 40 years.

The TT plays a major part in the company’s planning with half a million baps being ordered by buyers in advance of this year’s event. “The TT is an opportunity to grow the business and boosts business by close on 30 per cent,” he says. “The wonderful thing about the TT is that it benefits everyone – us, our customers, the taxi drivers, the hotels. It gives us all the chance to scale up for a while and a good TT can see us through hard times later in the year.”

Robinson’s works as much as possible with local producers. “We made a decision to support the local growers because if they go out of business, a set of skills will be lost – and they won’t ever come back again.

Shoprite supermarkets are our main trading partner and together we are defeating the trend of family owned local businesses to be run by the big four supermarkets who dominate food retailing in the British Isles.”

John goes on: “We are more nimble, quicker and more flexible than some of the big retailers because we have pretty generous storage already, we can keep supplying everyone when the Island is cut off by the weather. But we also have to ensure we and our customers remain competitive and it has to be remembered our customer base is small but we are the largest wholesaler on the Isle of Man.”

Over the years the family has seen significant changes in the fruit and vegetable business. “My parents used to say how melons were hardly ever seen and oranges were only available at Christmas,” recalls Tony. “Avocados and kiwi fruits have gone from being exotic to everyday item while mangoes and paw-paws are now accepted as everyday fruit. There is now the all-year round availability of strawberries, grapes and iceberg lettuce.”

The new Floristry Centre is the Island’s biggest seller of flowers with over 20,000 Post-a-Rose.com bouquets being delivered via IOM Post Office every year throughout the UK. Signature by Robinson’s provides luxury flowers locally from the Floristry Centre and it also houses Isle of Man Hampers, an online service which provides hampers celebrating the very best of Manx food and drink all over the UK. The Cooil Road Store has been long recognised as the Island’s leading Chinese and Oriental supplier to both retail and wholesale customers, including lines from the Philippines, Thailand, Poland, South Africa, America and Europe as well as displaying as much Manx produce as possible.

The Fish Market counter at Cooil Road is primarily used by caterers but Paddy’s Fresh Fish can be found at the Prospect Terrace shop and of course Shoprite counters and stores.

“We provide what the Manx people want and there’s a sense of pride in the food our Island produces,” declares John. “Robinson’s is a small business that thinks big.”

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“We made a decision to support the local growers ”

Robinsons was started from a fruit stall in Douglas market by John’s great-grandmother who was helped by her son Johnny, the business later transferring to Nelson Street then to 40 Strand Street in 1919.

The business was handed down on the female side of the family with John’s grandmother Florence running the business by the time it transferred to 30 Strand Street in 1938. It operated from there until the site was taken over to be totally revamped.

The Horsthuis brothers, all born in the Isle of Man, came back to the island after university in 1972, entered the business that same year and took over the Prospect Terrace shop. They later became involved with the Nicholson family who own Shoprite and a further expansion followed.

Robinson’s was also the first company in the UK to bar code fruit and vegetables.

Currently, over £1m of Robinson’s produce is being locally grown, only the climate stops the island from growing 100 per cent Manx produce.

Robinson’s over the course of a year injects around £7m into the Island’s economy.

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Carlo Takes Over the Family Business as Father Jokes “I’ve Been Sacked”!

Sons and daughters should avoid joining a family business straight from school or university until they have worked elsewhere and proved their worth and independence.

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on’t just rely on being ‘nursed’ amid the comfort and security of the family business,” is the unequivocal advice from Carlo Tramontana, who successfully ran a major travel agency before joining his father as a partner in Ramsey Art Gallery & Jewellers.

Carlo, 44, left Ramsey Grammar School when he was 16 and had an engineering course booked at college but decided to forego it and become a travel agent at the Ramsey branch of A T Mays.

“I thoroughly enjoyed it and was manager of the Onchan branch by the time I was 19 and then manager at Douglas, its biggest branch, shortly afterwards,” recalls Carlo. “But as time went on I could see that with a discount war in the industry getting under away and computerisation coming in it was perhaps time to get out of the travel business.”

It was only then that he looked towards the art gallery and jewellery business established by his father Michele. Nott only was there the gallery in Ramsey but a gallery and gift centre in Onchan. It was there that Carlo found his niche for the next seven years and the start of a lifetime business partnership with his father.

“Until then I had never thought of going into the family business but by then I had proved I could be independent and successful outside it, in the process earning the respect of my parents in doing so,” says Carlo, who is married with three teenage daughters.

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he was born and his catering qualification led to him getting a job at the Falcon’s Nest Hotel in Port Erin. Ambitious, It wasn’t long before he had his own restaurant, the Casa Siciliano and then a 26-bedroom hotel, the Eskdale in Queen’s Drive, Ramsey.

By now married and with two children, his wife Brenda from Port Erin, Michele had decided his future lay in a different direction. The hotel was sold and a building in the centre of Ramsey was bought and opened as an art gallery where Michele could show his work.. “I just wanted to paint and by the time I was 40 I was a full-time artist,” says Michele.

The father and son relationship had always been good. Carlo laughingly points that in those early years of working as a partnership there was an 18 mile working distance between them so they didn’t get under each other’s feet; that arrangement ended, however, when they decided to merge the two businesses and open a larger gallery in Ramsey, a building which they have since sold and is now Costa Coffee.

“Dad has always been encouraging but while giving his opinion he lets you do your own thing,” says Carlo. “But in looking back to when I was growing up he was certainly very strict and instilled in me the value of honesty and doing things in the right manner and taking people how we see them ourselves and not as directed by other people.

“When we started working together we agreed ground rules that while we were father and son we were also work colleagues and partners in the business and must respect each other accordingly.

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“I just wanted to paint and by the time I was 40 I was a full-time artist”

Outside work we aren’t equal, he is my father and you respect your father to the end.”

Carlo goes on: “We have never had any major arguments. For the last two years he has been semi-retired and I have been a 75 per cent shareholder in the business but from July 1 that all changes and I will be the total boss as 100 per cent shareholder which leaves Dad to go off and do his painting.”

Michele’s paintings cover most of the wall space in the Market Hill Gallery and pictures, along with framing, are an integral part of the business although jewellery and engraving are becoming increasingly popular and in demand.

“You can’t get a picture framed on the internet and Carlo produces the best frames in the island,” says the proud father.

“He and I have always combined well, he has such a good brain and hands but my way of working is probably more oldfashioned. I will now be focusing entirely on painting which is why I left the hotel trade all those years ago to become an artist.

“I love to go out and paint the impression I feel when I look at the world around me. I started painting in oil, then water colour and pastel. Constable is my idol, he’s the painter I looked up to when I first started. He has a passion and a way of looking at life.”

Of the future, Michele with a big smile adds: “You could say that as of 1st July I’ve been sacked.”

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IoD Award Winners L-R: Jennifer Houghton, Phil Taylor, IoD Branch Chairman Clive Parrish, and Kate Hegarty

IoD Director of the Year Awards Reflect Island’s ‘Diverse’ Economy Winners of the first awards given by the Isle of Man branch of the Institute of Directors for outstanding business leadership and success reflected the diversity of the Manx economy.

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his is the reaction of IoD branch chairman Clive Parrish who added: “The diversity factor bodes well for the future of the island and its economy. The judges were also delighted with the response and with the calibre of those who entered.”

The winners of the three categories came from the hospitality, communications and e-Gaming sectors and were presented with their awards at the IoD’s Spring lunch at the Sefton Hotel

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The awards, sponsored by law firm Appleby, are aimed at raising awareness of the contributions made by companies and directors to the economic prosperity of the island, The SME company director of the year – open to companies with an annual turnover of under £10 million, was Phil Taylor, whose company Rock Food Concepts is a privately held investment company that focuses exclusively on the hospitality industry. Under its corporate umbrella are irestaurants 14 North and Little Fish on North Quay in Douglas and wine bar and restaurant Bath & Bottle in Victoria Street, Douglas.

The International Director of the Year award went to Jennifer Houghton, CEO and managing director of registered online gaming company Annexio. The company, which has seen soaring growth, offers its member the chance to play in some of the biggest jackpots worldwide and win substantial cash prizes through the website.

The Young Director of the Year award, open to directors under the age of 42, went to Kate Hegarty, director at Douglas-based Elite Communications Group, the island’s only fully owned communications business which last year acquired Wi-Manx, an island provider of data centre, hosting and network solutions.

All three winners will be entered into the UK IoD National Awards, which take place in London, as national winners in the Isle of Man. ON THE AGENDA

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RILEY’S DEDICATED BIKERS

It’s a great feeling, getting on your bike, turning the key and off you go, there’s just not the same restrictions as with a car,” says veteran biker Martyn Riley, managing director of Riley’s Garden and Lifestyle Centre on the outskirts of Douglas.

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“When riding a bike it’s a freedom thing”

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hat appeals to genuine bikers is the camaraderie,” says Martyn, a sentiment not only echoed by son Thomas, marketing director of the business, but four of the company’s employees who, are all dedicated bikers.

“I’ve had a bike since I was 17,” says Martyn, who now rides a Honda CB650F but amid nostalgia recalls how he once built a Kawasaki 175 from scratch. “It took weeks,” he adds.

“I was only aged four when I started watching the TT, the buzz fantastic, but for so many bikers the real enjoyment is getting together in Bushy’s tent, watching the racing on the big screen while chatting to their mates, with the radio commentary IN-BUSINESS

in the background. In the days of Mike Hailwood and Giacomo Agostini the noise from those early bikes was just wonderful.

Yes, these days, I’m a bit more of a fair weather rider but as long as I can bend my knees I will be riding a bike.”

Thomas was aged 11 when his father got him interested in motor bikes and today he’s very much an enthusiastic biker and the owner of a Triumph Scrambler, the replica of the bike ridden by ‘the king of cool’ actor Steve McQueen and regarded as an iconic symbol of rebellion and independence.

“On a daily basis I ride a Honda Grom 125,” says award winning athlete Thomas.

“When riding a bike it’s a freedom thing, there’s a euphoric feeling which you can’t get when driving a car, it’s hard to explain.

In a car you might want to take the shortest

route to your destination but with a bike you’ll opt for the longest, you just want to enjoy and take in everything that’s around and there are so many lovely roads on the island where you can do that when on a bike.”

Two-and-a-half years ago Przemek Lechanski (known to his workmates as ‘Jack’) left his native Poland for a new life with his wife in the Isle of Man and now works in Riley’s cafe/restaurant. Each day, no matter the weather conditions, he rides his Yamaha TZR A25R to and from work.

“I first started riding a bike 10 years ago but it’s not enjoyable in a busy city like Warsaw, the capital, which is where we lived,” says Jack, once a restaurant manager in Poland and previously a bank manager with a team of 30 people. “Here, it’s a different story with beautiful roads on which you can practise your skills and my favourite ride is the road between Castletown and St Mark’s.”

A trio described by Thomas as amazing hands on mechanics and dedicated bikers who can strip a bike down and put it back together without any problems are Rennie Hollings, Ian Kirk and Brian Kinrade.

“I was a nipper of about seven or eight when I started riding,” says Rennie who has a Kawasaki Z800 and a KTM EXC 400. “I was actively discouraged by my parents, said they were death traps,” recalls Rennie.

“For me riding a bike is all about the sights, the sounds, the smells and every part of your body is involved.”

Ian, riding bikes for 40 years, has a Yamaha WR 450. “It’s all about the peace and quiet, apart from the exhaust,” he declares. “No wife, no kids, just me wondering if I will make it round the next corner as I’m going into it a bit too quick.”

Brian, island champion in Formula 2 stock car racing many times, opted for a bike when he decided to give up racing and rallying and has a Honda 1978 CB 400/4.

Two years ago he took part in the Motogiro d’Italia ona 1957 BSA Bantam which he had ‘done up’ and re-commissioned. “Doing that on a single spring seat was tough,” he laughingly admits.

Summing up the thinking of thousands of dedicated bikers he adds: “What I most enjoy is the crack with the boys, the trials are good fun and it gets you out of the house on a Sunday morning.”

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One in a million

Jamie Milligan might be new to the Isle of Man, but when it comes to golf, he has been perfecting his skill and indulging his love of the sport for years. Now, with the backing of one of the island’s most prestigious

organisations, Best Group, he looks set to hit it big.

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Hi Jamie. Can you tell us a bit about when your love for golf first started and why?

I first started to play golf when I was around 13 or 14, back in Northampton where I grew up. I’d never looked into golf before, as it was football that I played a lot of at that time, like most lads my age, but it all started when my Dad wanted to take up the game, so my brothers and I headed down to the local municipal club to have a go on the driving range. Needless to say, I loved it and from then on I just played rounds with my brothers. My Dad didn’t take it up in the end, as he couldn’t really hit the ball!

I ended up going to the golf course all summer with friends from school; our mums would drop us off and pick us up when it was time for dinner, later in the evening. It was brilliant fun back then, as we’d literally play all day, every day, until we had to go back to school. That’s when I really started to love the game, as it was something that I got into with my family and it always reminds me of the fun times I had when I was a teenager, growing up.

Did you always know that you had a talent for the sport, or was it passion and dedication that saw practice actually make perfect?

One of the things I really love about golf is that it’s a very honest sport; you have to call penalties on yourself and you always check with your playing partners before a ruling to make sure everyone agrees. I hope golf stays that way, as I would hate to see it digress to where people have to break the rules in order to lower their handicaps.

Golf for me was always a bit of fun, but I managed to hit the ball well, in a relatively short space of time, so you could say that I had a bit of natural talent for the sport.

I believe I had a relative somewhere in my family line that was a professional golfer back in the 40s 50s. He played in the open a few times, once in 1946, and he was in the field with Sir Henry Cotton, Bobby Locke and the winner, Sam Snead.

So maybe there is a golf gene that has been passed down! But on a serious note, I have worked hard in recent years, putting in the time on the practice range and having regular coaching, so I’ve been doing all the right things in order to improve. Golf is a good sport because you can always get better at every aspect of it. There really is no limit as to how good you can be, but golf is something nobody will ever be perfect at.

What prompted you to move over to the Isle of Man and how do you find the greenways here?

I moved to the Isle of Man because of a lovely lady I met last year. Since coming here I’ve loved the island and the people here. Everywhere you go is so friendly and it’s nice to be somewhere that you can feel so safe. Golf over on the island is great and there are good people at the head of the game over here, such as Geoff and Stephen, who run the IOM team. They made me feel very welcome and included me in the squad IN-BUSINESS

when I moved here. I’m looking forward to playing with them through the summer.

There are very talented players here, so golf on the IOM is going great guns and I can only imagine it moving forward from here. As for golf courses over here, I’ve not played them all but from what I have seen of the few I’ve played, they are varied and are all maintained to exceptional standards. I’ll be spending my time mainly at Castletown and Peel for practicing and the only thing missing for inclusive practice is a top class short game or short course. If the island could build one of those, it would be brilliant, so maybe one of the existing courses will do this in the future. The good thing about a really well maintained short course is that not only will established players be able to practice there, but it will also attract young golfers coming through the ranks. If you have a small course of holes ranging from 30-120 yards, youngsters will be able to play it like a normal length course.

Tell us about your recent sponsorship deal with Best Group. What really spoke to you about them, as a potential sponsor?

The sponsorship deal with Best Group is a dream come true for me, it really is.

Brooke and Nathan Cafearo have offered me an amazing opportunity to pursue a passion and chase my dream of becoming a professional golfer and it all came about from me simply playing a few holes with Nathan. We had nine holes around King Edward Bay one Sunday afternoon and the next evening he and his wife sat me down and gave me the news that they want to help me to become a professional golfer. I was absolutely speechless; I’ve never had an opportunity like this and I cannot thank them enough. Having a sponsor is its wait in gold really; now, golf can become my full focus. Securing the backing of a sponsor is a big weight off your shoulders, financially speaking, but to get a surprise sponsor it astounding!

What difference do you think the sponsorship and support will make to your game?

The difference now is that I don’t have to worry about juggling a job alongside improving my golf game, so whereas I used to only have the daylight after work to practice, unless I want to go up to a floodlit driving range, I can now spend eight hours a day practicing, when not playing tournaments of course. I can also get the benefit of extra coaching, which will help to focus me on developing and practicing specific things. When an opportunity comes along like this you have to put a firm plan in place, while understanding that it won’t be realised overnight. The first year will be tough, as I’ll have to get used to a lot more travel and staying in hotels, but I’m committed enough to make it happen.

Tell us about your ultimate ambition.

Five years from now, will we be seeing you playing all the major global tournaments?

Ultimately, the plan is to work my

way onto the main European tour. It’s not impossible by any means, as long as I apply myself in the right way and stay focused.

I believe I have the ability to do it. Any professional’s main goal is to compete in major championships and while right now that’s a long way off for me, I will be entering open qualifying and then who knows? You could see me at Troon this summer!

It’s all very fresh for me at this point, so what I need to do is sit down with my coach, as well as the right people, to come up with a playing schedule and some targets to work towards. I feel that with Brooke and Nathan behind me, I’ll have all the support and guidance I will need.

What advice would you give to any budding golfers out there and could coaching be a potential career progression for you in the future?

There are a lot of incredibly talented golfers out there, including some very young players that will one day make it.

My advice to them is to keep focused on where they want to go and stick to the same coach. That’s key really. If you take Rory McIlroy as an example; he’s had the same coach all his life and the bonus with that is that they know you, your swing and game as a whole. The relationship between a coach and player is built on mutual trust and respect, so developing a long-term relationship is vital.

Could coaching be a future for me?

Right now I’m not even thinking about that, but if I had to give an answer I’d say no.

Right now I want to be serious about the playing and making that my career.

Finally, what do you think is the secret to your success?

There’s no secret to my success, I’ve just worked really hard on my game for a few years and been coached in the right ways.

My coach has always said to me that there are no limitations in golf and if you work hard you can achieve great things. I hope to prove him right in the near future.

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RL360째 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP TOP 10 With England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland all preparing for the largest ever European Championships being held in France this summer, RL360째 Marketing Services and Communications Manager Nigel Danzelman looks back at the top 10 moments from previous Euros.

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THREE LIONS COME SO CLOSE

Played to the soundtrack of Badiel & Skinner’s “Three Lions” anthem, England came within a stud length of Gazza’s boots to winning their semi final against the German’s at Wembley stadium in Euro 96. Instead Gareth Southgate’s penalty miss inevitably saw the Germans win the shoot-out and go on to defeat the Czech Republic in the Final.

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THAT PENALTY - THE “PANENKA” IS BORN

Very few footballers do something so completely original that they are named after their ‘invention’.

Such an honour fell to Czech midfielder Antonin Panenka in the penalty shoot-out in the 1976 Final in Belgrade against West Germany. He ran up, waited for the keeper to commit himself, before gently chipping the ball over the sprawling keeper into the middle of the goal. The “panenka” was born, and perhaps even more surprisingly the Germans lost a penalty shoot-out.

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“PLATINI, PLATINI, PLATINI!”

The most gifted player of his generation, Frenchman Michel Platini, had almost singlehandedly dragged France to the semi-finals of their own tournament in 1984 with 7 goals in their 3 group matches. With the semi-final against Portugal poised at 2-2 and penalties looming, Platini twisted and smashed his shot past 3 defenders to decide what many consider the greatest game to be played at the Euros. Platini scored in the final when France beat Spain 2-0.

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VAN BASTEN’S WONDER GOAL

In 1988 football’s perpetual bridesmaids had their moment of glory. Holland, who had confidently brushed aside England in the Group stages, had a glittering array of stars to call on in 1988 – Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard, Ronald Koeman and, in the form of his life, Marco Van Basten, at that time the best striker in the world. In the final against the USSR, Van Basten struck a ferocious volley from an impossible angle into the top corner to seal a 2-0 Dutch victory.

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ROONEY ANNOUNCES HIMSELF

In 2004 Wayne Rooney burst onto the world stage at the age of 18, scoring twice against both Switzerland and Croatia in the Group stage.

Rooney and England looked unstoppable. A broken foot in the quarter final against hosts Portugal ended Rooney’s and England’s dream, with England once again failing at the penalty shoot-out stage.

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DANES COME OFF THE BEACH TO UNLIKELY GLORY

The Danes weren’t even meant to be there. They hadn’t qualified and many of the players were on holiday when war in the former Yugoslavia forced the Yugoslav team to withdraw from the 1992 Euros in Sweden. With the pressure off, the Danish underdogs surprised everyone to reach the final, where they surprised strong favourites Germany 2-0.

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SPAIN SEAL UNIQUE TREBLE

Spain stood on the brink of becoming the first nation to win successive European Championships in 2012. Sandwiched in between – in 2010 – Spain had lifted the World Cup, so a unique treble beckoned. The Spaniards, surely one of the greatest European teams ever, grabbed their chance in glorious style, sweeping aside Italy 4-0 in the final.

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GREEKS SMASH AND GRAB

The Euros have thrown up a few surprise winners over the years, but none more unexpected than the Greeks in 2004. Ranked as 150:1 outsiders before the tournament, the Greeks ground out wins against more fancied opponents including host nation, Portugal, in the final. But can anyone remember a single player from that Greek team?

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GAZZA LEAVES HENDRY ON HIS BACKSIDE

Billed as “the Battle of Britain”, the game between the Auld Enemy was eagerly anticipated in 1996. England led 1-0 into the second half when in 2 frantic minutes the game was decided. First, Scotland had a penalty that was saved by David Seaman. Play switched to the opposite end and Paul (Gazza) Gascoigne had Scottish centre back Colin Hendry twisting and turning and then falling over as Gazza flicked the ball over his head and volleyed home gloriously.

10. TREZEGUET STRIKES GOLDEN GOAL WINNER The golden goal was a short-lived experiment designed to make extra-time more interesting – with whoever scored the first extra-time goal winning the game. The final of Euro 2000, held in France, was decided in such a manner by Frenchman David Trezeguet with a fine strike in the first period of extra time against the Italians. Time seemed to stand still after the ball hit the net, before players and fans realised the final had been won.

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Future generations face a shortage of memorable online identities Words: Lisa Pollack (FT)

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fter five years of receiving emails not meant for me, I finally met my digital doppelgänger in December. I was on a business trip to New York, where she lives. She suggested afternoon tea at a chic hotel.

What brought us together is a notably contemporary problem of similar usernames. Her last name, “Pollock”, forms part of her Gmail address — like mine.

Approximately once a month, someone who is sending her an email looks at that last “o” in her name and summarily decides it must be an “a”. My inbox is then graced with an announcement about a shipment of skinny belts that has arrived in SoHo, an offer of Latin lessons for children taught

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by an enterprising Brooklyn teenager or an invite to Thea’s sixth birthday party.

I have thus become a voyeur afforded guilt-free glimpses of a parallel world of fashion, interior design and parenting posh children. It is distinctly less pleasant for my digital doppelgänger who, over inexplicably sweet mini cakes , huffs about people’s wrong-headed attempts at spellchecking her name.

Nonetheless, our online identity problem also demonstrates that we were alive during a golden age of online identity that is now over. We may not have defined benefit pension plans or centrally located homes in major metropolitan areas, but we do have relatively simple Gmail addresses that include our names. In a generation or

two, this will make us look like dinosaurs.

Google, after all, does not free usernames that have been taken before, even if an account becomes inactive. So if you have a combination of your first name and last name in your Gmail address and little else: congratulations, you have ruined it for everyone with the same name, or a similar one, who comes after you. Same with Twitter: you can go ahead and feel bad for future generations, if the platform survives that long.

It is a different story when it comes to Hotmail or Yahoo. Their terms of service specify that, after a period of inactivity, addresses may be recycled so that they can be used by others. Yahoo explains that this is “due to the limited number of ON THE AGENDA

“who would like to be ‘Dave123456789’?” names available”. On the one hand, it’s comforting to know that the digital detritus of my teenage Hotmail account has not cluttered the online world for those to come. On the other, the risks to the privacy of past owners are unnerving. There are disadvantages for the new owners, too.

As one such user discovered, it is hard to enter your new Hotmail address into your current PayPal account if PayPal thinks that address already exists. So, if you do inadvertently pick up a recycled account, you had better hope that the person was as digitally dull as someone who shares motivational quotes on Facebook.

Many will shout that this is all the more reason to purchase a domain name — to allow, say, a family of Joneses to TECHNOLOGY

have email addresses along the lines of [firstname]@jones.com. But here, too, many of the best addresses — that is, those that are familiar, pronounceable and memorable — have been snapped up. Evidence of this is provided in a forthcoming paper in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. Thies Lindenthal of the University of Cambridge finds that there could be up to 25 per cent more registered domain names if more user-friendly ones were available.

New addresses are being released by expanding the universe of top-level domains — for example, to include .site and .online — but whether these are widely adopted is a different matter.

Those unable to find a web address

to their liking may turn to social media or other platforms. But Lindenthal, in a separate interview, questions whether growth in those services will slow when users cannot find an attractive login name.

“In the end,” he says, “who would like to be ‘Dave123456789’?”

One way to get around this might be to start early, ensuring as a parent that you give your child a name that is both unique and memorable. Then immediately buy an appropriate domain as an investment in their digital future (Google and others, by the way, have a minimum age requirement for accounts).

In the longer term though, we may have to develop smarter ways to recycling digital ashes for the benefit of those to come. agenda

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Smartphone users shift from talking to tapping More than a quarter of smartphone users in developed markets will not typically use the devices for traditional voice calls this year, according to research showing that the handsets are increasingly being used for data use only.

Words: Daniel Thomas (FT)

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eloitte, the professional services company, found that people are turning to internet-based messaging, social media, video and voice services to rather than making calls over a mobile voice

network.

“It used to be good to talk,” said Paul Lee, analyst at Deloitte. “Now its good to tap.”

About 22 per cent of smartphone users said that they had already stopped using their phones to make traditional phone calls in any given week in 2015, a rise from 11 per cent in 2012.

Deloitte said this showed the rapid migration of people to so-called “over the top” internet services rather than using the voice minutes assigned by their mobile provider. It predicted that this number would rise to 26 per cent this year.

The age group with the largest proportion of so-called data exclusive packages was 18-24 year olds, with almost a third in developed countries not making phone calls on a weekly basis.

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mobile groups and device makers that rely on voice services to attract customers.

Deloitte believes that telecoms groups will need to add extra data into bundles while larger handsets, known as “phablets”, that are designed for reading and sending messages and emails, will become increasingly popular.

Deloitte also pointed to the use of smartphones for other purposes. It estimates that 2.5tn photos will be shared, posted or uploaded this year, and almost 90 per cent of these will come from smartphones.

It is not just private conversations that are being usurped: mobile phone apps are also replacing functions that have traditionally been done via phone call, such as ordering a takeaway or requesting a taxi.

Deloitte predicted that the number of people using a smartphone to pay for goods and service will also rise rapidly.

In 2016, it expects the number who use a

touch-based payment service such as Apple Pay to make a purchase on their mobile device will rise by 150 per cent to reach 50m regular users.

Most forms of data communication have also become more popular. Text messaging remains the most widely used among those not making voice calls, closely followed by instant messaging, email and social networks.

Instant messaging had the most rapid uptake among consumers since 2012, with the proportion of adults using services such as WhatsApp more than doubling from 27 per cent in 2012 to 59 per cent in 2015.

One sector that Deloitte said would struggle to match the hype is virtual reality headsets. The firm expects just 2.5m headset units to be sold in 2016 even as the devices become more commonplace with launches by Oculus, Sony and HTC.

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A guide to minding the technology generation gap You may choose to amend your techie ways and appear more up-to-date, or be old-tech and proud

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o you send emails in literate, properly spelt English, broken down into crisp, relevant paragraphs, signed at the end, even with the mandatory extra space inserted after each full stop?

If you do, you are almost certainly old. How old? From a not hugely scientific study of everyone I happen to know, I’d say over 40, but more likely 10 years north of there.

What are the tells that make a speedy, clear, informative email the mark of advancing years?

Well, the main one is that you are emailing at all. For reasons I fail to understand (but then I am quite old) most of my younger friends prefer the cumbersome, hit-and-miss messaging of social media sites, or to use fiddly phone messaging utilities such

as WhatsApp. They reserve the directness and unambiguousness of email for writing to, well, old people.

Second, if your emails are in reply to someone else’s, any unseemly promptness will give you away. The young (ie under 40) may pride themselves on being quick about most things, but when it comes to electronic communication, an insouciant satellite delay of a few hours to forever seems to be not just acceptable, but cool.

It doesn’t mean, I have learned, that they don’t like you; they just converse when it suits them. Rather than conduct written conversations as a polite, if slightly geriatric, tennis game of lobs and returns, the under 40-or-so favours a style more akin to random teenage grunts.

So here is my 2016 guide to other age giveaways, aside from the email thing.

You may choose to amend your techie ways and appear more up-to-date, or be old-tech and proud. I’m just saying. n Bashing devices to stop them misbehaving. This hasn’t worked since about 1974, sorry.

n Giving your own number when answering the phone; this is so 1960, it’s amazing that hipsters haven’t adopted it.

n Shaking mobile phones when reception is bad. And shouting into them like old GPO telephones.

n Using text language in texts. Young people would rather use a flip-phone than say ‘CU L8R’ like their parents do.

n Jabbing at touchscreens. For oldsters, buttons have to be pushed hard to make two contacts meet. They find capacitive touch, requiring a mere brush of the finger, unintuitive.

n Saying LOL in any electronic communication, ever. A report for Facebook last summer, The Not-SoUniversal Language of Laughter, found that LOL is now used by only 1.9 per cent of us, with a Methuselahn average age of 28.

“Haha” is how young people signify a joke.

Still best avoided if you’re old, though.

n Getting confused by Facebook — especially conducting private conversations publicly. “Hope all’s OK, how was the hysterectomy?” n Signing posts on Facebook: “Love, Marjorie”. Also, writing long posts. Taking “likes” too seriously, and penning thank-you emails for all likes received. And sending affirmations: “If you hate cancer, like this.”

n Finding it obnoxious when people check their phones and smartwatches in the middle of a conversation.

n Come to think of it, Facebook itself is mostly for the aged.

n Giving a damn about privacy. Young people don’t get this at all.

n Getting angry with incompetence. I tend to send furious tweets (see, I’m modern) to companies about stupidity on their websites. My children acknowledge that aspects of the sites are poorly designed but laugh at “Dad going off on one”.

n Sorry, but back to email again: not attaching the attachment you say you’ve attached. Oh, and adding a PS to an email.

Anything but that.

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The Island’s finest short term residence

“It’s in a class of its own on the Island.”

Thus spoke a highly impressed tourism official after being shown around the newly converted residence on the slopes of South Barrule. Its soft launch, or first opening, occurred in early May to universal acclaim from early visitors.

Billed as “the Island’s finest short term residence”, The Barn at Ballaloaghtan is offered as serviced or self-catering accommodation for up to 10 people. Owners Monica and Paul Davis, from Castletown, like to think out of the box, and the Barn is very much out of the normal. Situated on farmland below the isolated hamlet of Kerrowkiel, or not far north of Grenaby, the residence offers the ultimate in privacy, convenience and luxury to discerning visitors.

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The story starts a little over four years ago, when the Davis family acquired the iconic Ballaloaghtan farm. In the previous decade, under the stewardship of George Steriopulos, the farm was the scene of the dramatic rescue from extinction of the Manx Loaghtan sheep. When George moved to England to farm the richer soils of Warwickshire, Paul Davis identified it as an ideal location to site a new “rare breeds” farm and development and improvement of the land and buildings began in earnest. Paul was struck, however, by the potential of the old stone barn, with its flying buttresses and dramatic views of the south coast, to be much more than a farm building. He consulted with his brother Tim, an eminent interior designer, who agreed that there were huge possibilities. A dream was born.

As local expert Chris Wade commenced a far-reaching programme of breeding four types of cattle, eleven of sheep and a herd of large black pigs, all on the brink of extinction, the Davis’ sought the help of Peel architectural technician Carl Jenkins to explore the possibilities for the barn. Paul’s “day job” in the financial sector brought him into contact with many visitors who bemoaned the lack of truly excellent facilities for families or small groups, and a decision was made to go “five star” all the way. Design began in earnest in 2013, with planning permission gained within the year to convert the barn into serviced tourist accommodation.

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One of many sources of pride for the owners is that all of the contractors, virtually all suppliers and virtually all product within the conversion is truly Manx. Cedar Developments Limited won the tender process demonstrating superior understanding of the demands of the project, Carl Jenkins supervised the project from start to finish, and Tim Davis Design took responsibility for the interior design, conceptual design of the 2-storey sunroom addition, and the organizing of supply for everything interior. The finished result is outstanding!

Challenges included the unusual dimensions of the building, long and thin, and the fact that the views down to Castletown and beyond are much better from the upper floor. As a result, the living concept is “upside down” with the dining room, lounge and only the master bedroom suite on the upper floor; two further bedrooms, the main kitchen and staff quarters are downstairs. Both lead into a new 2-storey sunroom area at the sunny end of the building.

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The issue of the main kitchen being on a different floor to the main dining room is overcome by the provision of a breakfast table in the main kitchen, and a warming kitchen on the upper floor adjacent to the dining area. Every room has an ensuite bathing area, including the staff quarters, and all are finished to the same high standard.

Entertainment – the property graces five state-of-the-art HD TV sets, the largest in the lounge, all with freesat capability. Art – the property features numerous pieces of original art, sourced from as far away as South Africa, but predominantly painted by Island artist Jeremy Paul, arguably the finest Manx animal artist of all time. Décor – subtle paint tones grace all rooms with accent walls and differing finishes; the sunroom or conservatory has a chic-modern “industrial” look with a galvanized steel staircase between floors. Cooking – the three kitchens were all installed by Andrew Williamson of Isle of Man Kitchens, complementing the local expertise also brought in for electrical, security, plumbing and joinery aspects.

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Throughout the rustic theme is preserved with exposed beams to the vaulted ceiling and oak used for all doors, cupboards and floors. The result is a light, airy and spacious feel to the property, with generous space and room to move even in the four-person second bedroom.

The interior designers have combined minimalism with functionality, meaning guests are not encumbered with masses of cushions, accents or artefacts, yet have ample space for storage, work and play.

“We’ve tried to think of everything,” says Monica Davis. Again, thinking out of the box characterizes pricing for visitors. Only one family or group will ever be in occupation at one time, the price is for the whole unit.

A single night will be very expensive, but in each month of the annual calendar, the first night is the most expensive and the thirtieth is an absolute bargain. At high season a 30-day let results in the pricing for the final nights dropping to a stunning £100 per night for 10 people, while in the low season it drops to £50 per night for the whole residence.

Longer lets are obviously much preferred by the owners. A long let is also available for the entire off season from September to May, opening up the potential for the residence to be used as a comfortable first place to stay on the Island for re-locating families.

“Everybody wants something different,” says Monica. We’ve included complementary airport or seaport transfers in our basic pricing, but no guest will pay for anything they don’t actually want. “We will cook three meals a day, provide on-site staff 24/7 – or give people the keys and leave them to enjoy complete privacy. The choice is completely theirs.”

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The Davis’s anticipate adding earning opportunities to other local businesses. There is the possibility of meals sent in from local restaurants including Leonardo’s in Castletown, The Forge and The Abbey. Contracts have been made with local car services to provide transportation on demand, laundry services are to be provided out of Ballasalla and tours will be available from a Port Erin provider. “Nothing,” says Monica, “is too much trouble. But we don’t insist anything on anybody.”

Are there any restrictions? Indeed, the whole property is strictly “non smoking” and guests will be politely asked to respect the essentially rural and agricultural nature of the surroundings. But the experience is available year-round and in all weathers. At the 600 foot contour, some winter guests will definitely experience “living in the clouds”.

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Perhaps the most soulful aspect of the whole venture, is that profits from the residence will not line the pockets of the shareholders, but be devoted back to the rare breeds farm which characterizes the use of the surrounding land. An expensive venture, the farms at Ballaloaghtan and Balladaniel are home to many amazing animals whose types are on the very brink of extinction yet worthwhile and colourful additions to the countryside.

For further details, to request a brochure or learn about the charms of The Barn at Ballaloaghtan, call Paul Davis on 07624 497333, email paul@manxrarebreeds.com, or visit the website www.manxrarebreeds.com

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FO GLION, GLEN MAYE, IM5 3BA ÂŁ895,000 Fo Glion is situated in a spectacular elevated position with panoramic views of the surrounding hillside in Glen Maye.

This exceptional family residence extends to beyond 3350sqft and is sat in approximately four and a half acres of land including glen style walkways, mature trees and shrubs plus a meadow that extends to almost two acres. Fo Glion itself has been modernised to a contemporary standard throughout and benefits from the natural light offered on all four sides of the property. The house itself comprises five bedrooms, two reception rooms, four bathrooms, a reception hall, wraparound sun room with stunning panoramic views and two balconies. In addition to the very generous accommodation is a detached triple garage with open plan studio space above extending onto a private balcony with views across the Village of Glen Maye.

The property is located within a twenty minute drive of Ronaldsway Airport and King Williams College.

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CLAREMONT HOUSE, RAMSEY, IM8 3EP £925,000 Nestled in the heart of Ramsey, Claremont House is a superb example of a fully refurbished detached period residence in private and secluded grounds extending beyond two acres. This Georgian home of approximately 3300 sq ft has been sympathetically restored and comprises five excellent size bedrooms, four reception rooms, three bathrooms, country style kitchen breakfast room, sun room, utility room, detached garage and various outbuildings. Cowley Groves are delighted to offer for purchase this unique Estate within walking distance of Ramsey Town Centre, Ramsey Harbour, Mooragh Park and Ramsey’s beaches.

T: Mark Canty - 07624 220109 W: www.cowleygroves.com

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Raven Electrical Services are a Manx company with an office based close to West Quay in the heart of Douglas, making it an ideal place to meet and discuss electrical contracting projects with clients and for them to meet our team.

• We have been trading since 2010 and developed an excellent island wide reputation for quality and service, of which we are proud.

• Our rates are competitive and we provide a prompt 24/7 callout and friendly service to all customers.

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• We employ a local team of certified tradesmen who specialise in all aspects of electrical contracting, from industrial/commercial design build, to domestic house re-wiring, electrical installations and alterations of all types. Along with our direct employees we carry a select list of sub-contract electricians for which we can draw upon as and when required.

• The Isle of Man Apprenticeship Scheme is proudly supported by us, as is the Isle of Man Work Experience in administration and trade.

• As registered members of professional bodies ECA members, members of the Isle of Man Construction Federation and Part P registered installers, we are regularly assessed to ensure quality and performance to the high levels required by such trade bodies which we fully endorse and welcome.

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Seacrest Lodge is a superb coastal residence in a sought after private location in arguably one of the best headland locations on the Island.

Landscaped stepped gardens extend to approximately 1½ acres with sweeping lawns to the front. Manx stone walling and hedges to borders with a large patio strategically placed to take advantage of the superb uninterrupted sea views. Nineteenth century Manx stone building used for storing explosives for the Laxey Mines. Sweeping driveway to the front providing ample offroad parking.

Featuring n 4 Reception Rooms n Breakfast Kitchen n Large Utility Room n 4 En-Suite Bedrooms n Oil Fired Central Heating n uPVC Double Glazing n Integral Double Garage & Detached Triple Garage n Ample Off-Road Parking n Phone Entry Gate System n Offered for sale with no onward chain.

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THE ISLAND'S MOST EXCLUSIVE DEVELOPMENT SITE The former Howstrake Holiday Camp, King Edward Road, Onchan

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A unique opportunity to purchase one of the Isle of Man’s most iconic coastal sites.

Extending to some 25 acres, this secluded headland location to the north of Douglas, on the coast south of Groudle Glen, provides dramatic views across the Irish Sea to Cumbria.

Howstrake now benefits from planning permission in principle for development of a signature residential building of over 20,000 sq ft, including ancillary staff and office accommodation, a new access road and an improved site boundary.

Key Features n The Island’s most exclusive development site n Site extends to circa 25 acres n Stunning coastal location with stunning sea and rural views n Planning permission for a 20,000+ sq ft dwelling and ancillary buildings n Truly unique opportunity n Short drive to the Islands capital centre n 25 minutes to the airport n Perfect location for business and pleasure n Private and secluded gardens

DESIGN PROPOSAL The proposed design will create an open plan lifestyle with specialist touches to create a truly inspirational space where the highest specifications are integrated with eco-friendly living systems. It will be a comfortable sanctuary of health and wellbeing to relax, work and entertain. The Architecture will effortlessly flow, frame sea views and capture natural light into the living spaces.

THE SITE Howstrake, home of the first holiday camp in the British Isles, has lain vacant since its last visitors left in 1973. On the coast South of Groudle Glen, the site is adjacent to King Edward Road. The beautiful forested Groudle Glen with nature trails lies immediately to the north of the site.

There is also private access from the site to the stunning cove at Groudle Beach.

The landscape will embrace the house within a series of indoor and outdoor spaces and into winter gardens where the orientation and site planning has maximised seasonal enjoyment throughout the day. The place will be framed by an outstanding wooded landscape and spectacular secluded cliff top environment.

The purchaser will have the flexibility to develop the detailed design of the house to their own specifications.

A reserved matters application should be submitted before the end of August 2017.

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UPPER BALLAVARKISH, GRENABY ROAD, BALLABEG n Detached Manx Farmhouse Enjoying Magnificent Rural & Coastal Views n Sympathetically Renovated and Finished to a High Standard Throughout n Set in Approx. 7 Acres with Additional Holiday Accommodation and Outbuildings n Formal Lounge, Kitchen/Dining Room, Hobbies Room/Snug, Home Office/Study, Conservatory n Cinema Room/Second Reception, Utility

Room, Cloakroom n Master Bedroom with En-suite, Dressing Room/4th Bedroom, 2 Further Double Bedrooms (En-Suites) n 2 Holiday Cottages with Additional Outbuildings, Detached Double Garage n Oil Fired Central Heating, Double Glazing, Ventilation System, Vacuum System

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The Bremont MB range is built in collaboration with British firm Martin-Baker, the pioneers of the ejection seat. At their test centre, the watches are strapped to the wrist of a crash-test dummy and shot out of the cockpit. Enduring forces of between 12G and 30G in the process.

But this doesn’t mean the MB is built for endurance at the expense of performance. It’s a beautifully-engineered mechanical chronometer certified 99.998% accurate by COSC.

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FRAGRANCES THAT WILL GROW ON YOU… THE FRUIT COCKTAIL

Diptyque Eau de Sens Eau de Toilette, £60 for 50ml, takes a new approach to citrus, combining elements of orange tree blossom, peel and flowers. Rounding out that acidic trio with musky angelica and patchouli, the florals really shine through. (www.johnlewis.com)

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When fashion editor Jo Levin ran out of the scent oil that had garnered her so many compliments over the years, she decided to enlist the help of Escentric Molecules founder Jeff Lounds to recreate the fragrance. In OdeJo Eau de Toilette, £55 for 50ml, aromatic lily and Tahitian rose meet their yang in cucumber oil and blue sea kelp, the blend evoking dusk during summertime. (www.harveynichols.com)

THE SUGAR RUSH

Like a cool Cosmopolitan on a hot New York night, DKNY Summer for Women Limited Edition, £44 for 100ml, is a sparking medley of goji berry, peach bellini, water lily, violet and rose, that will satisfy any sweet tooth. (www.superdrug.com)

THE ITALIAN JOB

Imagine a cool breeze rolling in off the Ligurian Sea, as you stroll through a sun-dappled lemon orchard on the Italian Riviera... That’s where you’re transported with the latest addition to the Tom Ford Private Blend collection, Neroli Portofino Eau de Parfum, £145 for 50ml, which is inspired by the glamorous holiday destination. (www.johnlewis.com)

THE LITERARY AGENT

The next volume in Amouage’s Library Collection is anything but by the book. Opus X Eau de Parfum, £180 for 50ml, is a bold confluence of no less than four rose notes, ably assisted by geranium, leather, oud and rich ylang-ylang. (www.amouage.com)

THE DARK HORSE

A delicate floral threesome - rose, carnation and lily of the valley - is elevated to heady new heights by liquorice and fig in MOR’s deeply enveloping Rosa Noir Eau de Parfum, £39 for 100ml. (www.feelunique.com)

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HAIR-RAISING STATS

As with practically every beauty trend in the last five years, we can blame the Duchess of Cambridge: Amazon reports that sales of brown hair dye have now overtaken blonde, and sales of round brushes have gone up by 1,600% in a year, as consumers aim to recreate Kate’s perfect hair.

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THE TAN COMMANDMENT

Reaching for the fake tan for a little help pre-summer?

Well don’t forget to exfoliate first, or you risk ending up looking streaky, which, according to 64% of women surveyed by SensatioNail, is the ultimate beauty sin.

Lipstick on your teeth came second (49%), followed by panda eyes (48%).

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RECIPES

TT FAVOURITE RECIPES

CHILLI QUEEN BURGER (Makes 4) n 1tsp olive oil n 4 long green chillies sliced n 4 x 180g hamburgers n 4 buns, halved n 1/4 iceberg lettuce, finely shredded n 8 slices of American cheese, roughly the same size as the hamburgers n 4 gherkins quartered lengthways into spears For the Chipotle Mayo: n 90g chipotle in adobo sauce (many larger supermarkets will have a version of this) n 170g mayonnaise n 40g tomato ketchup n Preheat the grill to high.

Add the olive oil to a small saucepan over a medium heat. Once hot, add the sliced chillies and cook for two minutes - they should be only very lightly cooked and still crunchy.

Cook the hamburgers to your liking, and meanwhile, toast or grill the cut sides of the buns.

To make the sauce, blend all the Chipotle Mayo ingredients in a food processor, or using a stick blender, for at least one minute until smooth.

Place the shredded lettuce on the bottom halves of the buns.

Add a spoonful of the Chipotle Mayo to the top halves of the buns and place another spoonful on top of the shredded lettuce.

When the hamburgers are cooked, transfer to a small roasting tray. Top each hamburger with the fried chillies, followed by two slices of cheese, making sure the chillies are covered. Place under the hot grill on the highest shelf. Watch carefully and remove the tray from under the grill as soon as the cheese has melted.

Carefully place the hamburgers onto the bottom halves of the buns and bring the two halves together. Serve with a gherkin spear on the side.

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TOM KERRIDGE’S BLACK PEPPER PULLED PORK SLOPPY JOE (Serves 6) n 2 white onions, sliced n 1tbsp garlic powder n 3 cloves of garlic, grated n 2tsp cracked black pepper n 1tbsp tomato puree n 1pt chicken stock n 400g pulled pork (follow previous recipe to prepare this) n 2 green peppers, diced n 1 green chilli, sliced n 1tbsp American mustard n Zest of 1 lime n A pinch of cayenne pepper n 1tbsp smoked paprika n 1tsp marjoram To serve: n 6 glazed hot dog buns n 1tbsp pickled green chillies n 2 banana shallots, sliced into rings n 1tsp toasted yellow mustard seeds n 3tbsp sour cream (in a squeezy bottle) n 3tbsp American mustard (in a squeezy bottle) In a heavy based sauce pan, heat a little oil and fry off the onions until golden. Add the garlic powder, fresh garlic, paprika, marjoram and black pepper and sweat down for a few minutes to release the flavour.

Add the puree and chicken stock and bring up to the boil. Once boiling, add the pulled pork and simmer for one hour.

Ten minutes from the end, add the green pepper and green chilli and allow to soften slightly. To finish, add the mustard, lime zest and cayenne pepper.

To serve, spoon the mixture into the glazed hotdog buns, scatter over the pickled chillies, shallot rings and mustard seeds. Then pipe over the sour cream and mustard.

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ONE POT WONDERS WORDS Freya Richardson

Hate washing up? These recipes only use one pot meaning they are great for a hassle free dinner party, easy on weeknights and delicious as leftovers.

In season: Thai style muscles

Satisfying the meat monsters: Chilli con carne with chorizo

Serves 4

Ingredients: 2 kg, ready prepared mussels 1 onion, roughly chopped 4 tbsp Thai red curry paste

Serves 6 2 Garlic cloves 1 Red pepper 1x 400ml tin Coconut milk 2 tbsp Fish sauce

Method: Set a large pan with olive oil over medium-high heat. Add the onions and the pepper. Cook until they are soft and the onion is translucent. Stir in the garlic, and cook another 30 seconds.

Add the curry paste and fish sauce to the vegetables and stir until evenly coated. Add the coconut milk along with the chicken broth.

Bring the curry to a simmer and let it cook until reduced and slightly thickened.

Ingredients: 1 large onion, chopped 225g Chorizo 2 red peppers, cut into small pieces 1 garlic clove, finely chopped 700g Lean Beef Mince 3 tsp level Chilli flakes

1 level tsp ground cumin 1 x 400g can chopped tomatoes 3 tbsp tomato purée 1 beef stock cube, dissolved in 300ml hot water 2 x 400g cans Red Kidney Beans, drained and rinsed

Method: Fry off the onion with oil on a medium heat until soft Add the garlic and chopped chorizo and cook until the fat starts to leak. Add the mince and cook until it browns, stirring to break up any clumps.

Add the mussels to the pan and cover. Cook for 4-5 minutes, shaking the pan occasionally, until all the mussels have opened.

Discard any mussels that haven’t fully opened after 5 minutes.

Stir in the chilli powder and cumin, then add the tomatoes, stock and tomato purée. Cover with a lid and simmer gently for 45 minutes, stirring often.

Serve with: chips and crusty bread and a squeeze of lime.

Add the kidney beans 5 minutes before serving.

Serve with: rice or tacos, guacamole and sour cream

The please-all classic: Chicken Stew Serves 4-6

Ingredients: 1 small Butternut squash, peeled, chopped into 2.5cm pieces 500g boneless, skinless chicken thigh, chopped into 2.5cm pieces 3 leeks 4 Courgettes

Half a bag of Kale 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped 3 Bay leaves 1 tbsp dried mixed herbs 1 tsp chilli flakes 500mls chicken stock 200mls white wine salt and freshly ground pepper

Method: Chop all the vegetables into even pieces. Put a shallow casserole dish or deep frying pan on heat with splash of oil. When the pan has heated fry off the chicken pieces until golden, add the leeks and cook until soft.

Add the wine, herbs and chilli flakes and cook until the wine stops bubbling. Add all the remaining vegetables (add vegetables can be added or substituted depending on what you like or is available), stock and season accordingly.

Cover with a lid and simmer gently for 45 minutes, stirring often.

Serve with: Crusty bread

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For the fussy friend: Vegetarian Curry Serves 4

Ingredients: 2 Aubergines 2 onions 1 x 400g can Chickpeas, rinsed and drained

500g Spinach (fresh or frozen) 6 heaped tsps. Madras curry paste 1x 400g tinned tomatoes

Method: Heat a little oil in a shallow casserole dish or deep frying pan.

When the pan has heated, add the onions and let them slowly soften.

Add the madras paste and let it cook out before adding the tomatoes, chickpeas and aubergine. Add more water if needed.

Add the spinach just before serving so it is slightly wilted but still holding shape.

Serve with: rice, naan, poppadum’s and mango chutney.

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“WHAT DO YOU SELL THEN?”

by Jamie Lewis General Manager - bath & bottle @jamielewislewis

When I was told the theme of this month’s issue was ‘Create’, my head was uncharacteristically empty. Surprising, considering I believe myself to be amongst the 25% of the British population that do believe they are living up to their full creative potential.

Saturday night, when guests attempt to order bar ‘staples’ such as; Southern Comfort, Smirnoff Ice, Jagermeister, Red Bull et al – “what do you sell then?!”. Please, do not see this as a jibe, I enjoy a pint of Guinness as much as the next and will happily join you for one at the pub up the road, after work, most nights.

True hospitality, is the culmination of the above, quality food and drink, atmosphere, ambient lighting, music, cleanliness, service, speed and - WARNING CLICHÉ ALERT – creativity. *At this point and in conclusion, I realise I am at risk of sounding holier than thou. I’m not, and so, think it prudent to point out, that as humans we all have our off days, and, could all do better to empathise with our fellow beings, regardless of whether we are serving or being served.

A quick google of ‘create’ gives the following definitions; bring (something) into existence, make a fuss; complain.

By both classifications, I ‘create’ on a regular basis though if the lovely barista at the well known coffee shop with the green mermaid in it’s logo insists on writing Jaime/ James/Jemal(?!) on my cup, then ‘create (#2)’ I will.

As a bartender I create on a daily basis - not only the drinks that my team and I shake and stir each night, no, as a collective we ‘create’ hospitality.

To me, hospitality is the extension of an invite into your bar, restaurant, café, pub; as if it were an invite into your own home - unlike my home I won’t ask that you remove your shoes at the door, but please, if you do feel the need to attempt dancing on the bar be kind enough to oblige.

Working in hospitality doesn’t mean that as a specie we are naturally hospitable, sometimes the job chooses the individual – parallels I’m sure, can be drawn in most industries. People are not born hospitable, hospitality is learned. Of course through the relevant training in the work place, but, arguably more importantly, through ones own positive and negative experiences, for how can an individual possibly understand the needs or frustrations of their guests, unless they are able to put themselves in their shoes. For that reason, I am thankful (even if frustrated at the time) in the receipt of bad service, because ultimately it teaches me how to be better at what I do.

To me, hospitality is not solely greeting, seating, serving, checking back - “how is everything?” (groan) and waving goodbye with a smile on our faces, that is what we are paid to do.

No, hospitality requires creativity, whether that be the way you ensure the person that hates everything has a good time, how you conjure up that extra table when a booking for six people hasn’t been put in the diary or how you persuade a vodka drinker to try an egg white infested Clover Club.

RECIPE: CLOVER CLUB Predating the Prohibiton, the Clover Club was created in 1910 at the Philadelphia gentleman’s club of the same name. The drink remained all but forgotten until the cocktail renaissance of recent years. Now a bath & bottle staple, I can’t see this classic being forgotten again any time soon.

INGREDIENTS: n 40ml Gin n 25ml Fresh lemon juice n 10ml Sugar syrup n 3 x Fresh raspberries n 1 x Egg white

METHOD: n Muddle raspberries in shaking glass n Add all other ingredients and shake without ice n Add ice and shake again n Double strain into coupette glass n Garnish with a raspberry on side of the glass

Behind the bar we have never stocked the usual nor the commonplace – a fact I find myself reminded of each and every

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Restaurant: ENZO’S Chef’s Name: Stuart Fenney What’s special about Enzo’s:

The food we produce and serve is prepared with the freshest ingredients, many of those sourced locally. Our priority is to deliver to our customers a dining experience with fantastic dishes freshly prepared in the most professional and attentive way.

What’s been the most challenging situation you had to deal with whilst at work: A busy Christmas

time - every year!

What’s your favourite smell: Fresh organic herbs

and fresh baking.

Marmite ....Yes or no: Definitely not!

What’s your favourite dish on the menu: Really

though to pick just one from the menu, I would say the King prawns, Crab, Queenies and Samphire Risotto.

What’s your tipple: Magners Cider and Jameson

In my kitchen, I couldn’t live without: My Kitchen

Favourite restaurant outside the Isle of Man: Sage, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.

assistant.

Favourite cooking gadget: Ice cream machine, all

our Ice cream is homemade.

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WORDS | Anne Berry | The Wine Cellar

IT’S OFFICIAL!

A SCIENTIFIC STUDY HAS PROVED THAT ‘MODERATE INTOXICATION’, I.E. A BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVEL OF 0.075, JUST BELOW THE LEGAL DRIVING LIMIT, IMPROVES PROBLEM SOLVING AND LEADS TO WHAT PARTICIPANTS IN THE STUDY REFERRED TO AS ‘EUREKA MOMENTS’ OR ‘AHA’ MOMENTS, WHICH THE SOBER PARTICIPANTS REPORTED SIGNIFICANTLY LESS OFTEN.

The study, called the Newt/Judge Experiment involved 18 advertising executives who were split into two groups.

The first group was allowed to drink as much as they wanted, while the second group drank only water. For three hours they worked on ideas for an advertising campaign about binge drinking and, at the end of this time, a group of top creative directors judged each idea. The drinkers had 4 out of 5 of the best ideas and also the most ideas. To get a second opinion, a group of pub goers was asked to judge as well and the results were the same.

from vineyards around Montpellier and is vibrant and lively. With its delicate aromas of melon and citrus fruit and clean, fresh slightly saline palate, it is an ideal accompaniment to seafood or salads. At just £8.95 a bottle, this could be your picnic and barbecue wine for the summer months and it’s on a special offer at £45 for 6 bottles while stocks last.

Drinking wine improves creativity!

We have some fabulous new wines, which may help with your own brainstorming sessions or that you can simply enjoy while relaxing in the garden during the warm (hopefully!) summer months.

Picpoul de Pinet is the perfect wine for summer drinking.

The Duc de Morny comes

If you like a Rose wine, the Les Cerisiers Cotes du Rhone Rose is a must. Classic salmon pink with delicate perfumed aromas of rosehip syrup, wild berry blossoms and cherries.

Ripe fruit flavours, beautifully balanced with acidity, and there is elegant textured berry fruit on the palate with a twist of raspberry freshness to lift the finish. Enjoy as an aperitif or pair it with light lunches, grilled fish or vegetable antipasti. £8.45 a bottle or, if you take 6, it is just £42.

A red to complete the set is the Domaine Pontbriand, which comes from the Vaucluse region in the south east of France. Sumptuous, fruity and concentrated, it is hard to believe this is a humble Vin de Pays! Perfumed aromas tinged with violets flow into full, round and juicy flavours of the mid-palate before a smooth and savoury finish. This really is the barbecue wine of 2016 and at £7.95 a bottle it is great value. At 6 bottles for £40.00, it’s a no brainer!

All available at the Wine Cellar, Tennis Road, Douglas. Call in and get your creative juices flowing!

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JUST WEEKS AFTER THE FIRST MEDIA DRIVES OF THE NEW TURBOCHARGED 718 BOXSTER, PORSCHE HAS UNVEILED THE MATCHING 718 CAYMAN It uses the same 2.0-litre 296bhp and 2.5-litre 345bhp flat-four engines in the new Cayman and Cayman S variants, the latter making use of variable vane turbo geometry technology taken from the 911 Turbo.

SURE SIDECAR RACES MOVE UP THE TT PODIUM This year sidecars will have an even more prominent role at the Isle of Man TT with the second Sure Sidecar race taking place on the final race day (Friday 10 June) for the first time.

Crowning the sidecar champion on the same day as the senior race winner makes for a massive Championship Friday and shows that the sidecar class is a more integral part of the TT than ever before.

Sarah Jarvis, PR and marketing manager at Sure Isle of Man, said: “Sure is very proud to support the sidecar races and it’s been great to watch them become an increasingly popular feature of the Isle of Man TT. “They’re great fun and just as exhilarating to watch as the solo riders and we’re excited to continue our association with the sidecar family. The sidecar teams really are incredibly skilful and watching them take on the famous TT course is a real treat for all TT fans.

“We’ve had almost 70 entries for the Sure sidecar races this year so the popularity of the class is clear for all to see. We’re looking forward to welcoming back a lot of familiar faces as well as some new riders for 2016.”

Cain of Bennett Racing in their efforts to move up the sidecar field. Karl and Lee endured a tough competition at the 2015 TT suffering issues with their sidecar but are looking to bounce back and build on their impressive fifthplace finishes in the 2014 races.

The Bennett Racing team will be going out in the first 10 starters at this year’s Sure Sidecar races and will be riding a new sidecar built for them by the most successful sidecar rider of all time, Dave Molyneux.

Dave will be looking to reclaim his sidecar title this year but, as ever, he’ll face some stiff competition. Last year’s double winners Ben and Tom Birchall will be back for 2016 and will start the races at number two.

Seven former race winners will compete in the 2016 Sure Sidecar events and with 13 of the competitors having previously clocked a speed of over 110mph this year should be the best sidecar competition the famous race has ever seen.

The extra power makes the Cayman S as fast off the line as the 911, notching up the 0-62mph sprint in as little as 4.2 seconds with the PDK gearbox and Sport Chrono packs installed.

Official fuel efficiency is up to as much as 40.9mpg in the 2.0-litre car, while top speeds are 170mph and 177mph.

The suspension has been stiffened and the wheels and tyres made wider, in order to extract even more lateral grip from a car already well known for its cornering prowess.

Porsche has upgraded the brakes, too.

The Cayman wears the system from the previous Cayman S, while the new S makes use of the four-piston calipers from the 911 Carrera, plus 6mm thicker discs.

As with the Boxster, two levels of Porsche Active Suspension Management (PASM) are available, lowering the car by 10mm and 20mm respectively, although the latter is only available on S models.

For the first time the Cayman is priced below the Boxster, mirroring the 911 range where the soft-top is the more expensive.

The range starts from £39,878, with the Cayman S at £48,834.

Sure has been the official telecommunications partner of the Isle of Man TT since 2007. As part of its relationship with the TT Sure provides free WiFi in the fan zones and the Bushy’s Beer Tent and provides equipment for race officials including the TT Marshalls’ Association and Hogg Motorsport ambulances. Sure also has a retail unit at the TT Grandstand which is open for the duration of the TT. For 2016, Sure has again committed to support local riders Karl Bennett and Lee

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JOHN MCGUINNESS HAS BEEN AWARDED THE PRESTIGIOUS SEGRAVE TROPHY BY THE ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB, IN RECOGNITION OF HIS MOTORCYCLING PROWESS AND CONSISTENT TRIUMPHS ON THE ISLE OF MAN The Morecambe Missile - attended a star-studded luncheon at the Royal Automobile Club’s impressive premises on Pall Mall in Central London.

Also in attendance was Stirling Moss, who is a previous winner of the Segrave Trophy.

The Segrave Trophy is awarded roughly once every year by the Royal Automobile Club to someone who demonstrates “outstanding skill and courage, on land, sea or in the air”.

Since its introduction in 1930 by Lady Segrave, in memory of her husband Sir Henry Segrave, following his untimely death breaking the water speed record on Lake Windermere, there have been many years in which the trophy was not considered to have been earned.

John McGuinness particularly impressed the Royal Automobile Club with his Isle of Man average speed of 132mph. He has now won the race 23 times.

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A TOUGH PHONE FOR A TOUGH WORLD Smartphones are incredible machines that put the power of a computer in your pocket but, until the Dewalt MD501 came onto the scene, they could be a little too fragile for the more rugged walks of life.

The Dewalt phone has changed this for good. If you work outdoors, in construction or on the high seas, you now have a phone that has been designed to withstand the rigours of your work.

Dewalt is a brand that people trust and their phone has been designed to keep your confidence. Its IP68 enclosure rating means it is dust proof and protected against complete, continuous submersion in water.

But that’s not all. The Dewalt phone’s US Military Standard Rating (MIL810G), means that you know this is one smartphone you can always rely on because it is designed and tested to withstand drops from two metres onto concrete, extreme temperatures and barometric pressures, and is resistant to chemical spillages and vibrations.

This is a very tough phone but its features don’t stop at strength. It comes with everything you’d expect from a top-end smartphone. It runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop, boasts a 13MP camera, 4G capabilities, QI cordless charging and pressure, magnetic and light and range sensors to help you in your daily work.

The Dewalt phone can even run two SIM cards, so you can keep your personal and work lives apart whilst using just the one device.

Touch ID, live photos which bring your memories to life, brilliant 4K video, vivid retina display and fitted with the same advanced A9 chip as the iPhone 6S. It may be small but don’t let that fool you - the iPhone SE is the smartphone we have all been waiting for! Capture photos like you would on the 6s with the 12-megapixel iSight camera, leave your charger at home with battery life that doesn’t disappoint and enjoy speedier browsing, downloading and streaming with 4G even faster than the 5s.

The iPhone SE is everything you have ever wanted in a phone – the power and performance of the iPhone 6S but with the added advantage of fitting comfortably in the palm of your hand, oh and not forgetting the affordable price tag!

Realistically, the only decision that needs to be made is if you should get it in Gold, Silver, Space Grey or Rose Gold…

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