New Zealand retailers and I have a love hate relationship. Mostly, I just love to hate them. Even though logically I know that living in one of the most remote places in the developed world with only 4 million consumers makes it impossible to sustain markets like they... Surrounded by evidence of my pilgrimage to replenish my underwear supplies, it didn’t seem an overly strange question to be asked “How was Marks and Spencer?â€. “Umm, busy” was my slightly bemused reply. It was only the insight of another friend in... I may be a Londoner by birth but since I was very small it has never been my home. Instead I’ve roamed settling for a few years here and there, although London has been a constant feature in my life through family who live here or the 7 years I commuted in from... Recharging my batteries over the last week has been a marvellous boost. It’s not until you slow down that you realise how unthinking life has become. In this dash about and have it all world we live in finding time to sit back, relax and think seems incredibly hard... At first my trip seemed like small speck on the horizon, then I arrived in the UK and it felt like I was standing on a hilltop looking out to a big view with limitless time to explore. Alas time is running out all of a sudden. London is calling again and I can faintly... 