With the lemons falling off the trees, here’s a way to use at least three of them

UNTIL 20 years ago, there was an abundance of ‘workingman’s taverns’ in the old part of Nicosia, now fast disappearing to be replaced by sandwich bars, chic cafés with fancy chrome chairs and trendy bars for weird, alternative types.

ETKO revamps its image and its quality

BEING in the hospitality industry, I know exactly the feelings when companies announce that they have achieved HAACP (Hazard Analysis, Critical Control Point) and ISO 9000:2000 (International Organisation for Standardisation) certification. Confidence, a sense of achievement, looking ahead to a bright future, and above all relief.

I’m back, refreshed, renewed and raring to go. Once a month I will be covering the best and worst (a few fashion faux pas) of what’s going on in the high street. Fashion, beauty, health and gossip, gossip, gossip…

Mouthing off…

Revamping your past life

HAVE you ever had the dream that goes ‘What if I had been born into a family with oodles of money’? Or, how about ‘What if I had possessed the genetic pre disposition handed down to me from Nobel prize winning parents’?

‘When I get a little money I buy books and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.’
Desiderius Erasmus

A LOT of dot com companies came to grief in the 1990s because of their failure to recognise one elementary fact, that most people like to shop, and would actually rather potter and browse in the flesh than through modem.

Linda McGuire: actress and artist

COLLATERAL ***

DIRECTED BY Michael Mann

STARRING Jamie Foxx, Tom Cruise, Mark Ruffalo

US 2004 120 mins.

RAISING HELEN **

DIRECTED BY Garry Marshall

STARRING Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack

US 2004 119 mins.

By Preston Wilder

Mounting biking over the trails of Cyprus