Jasmine's Jottings

Dinner party on the tube

If you're sick of hearing dire reports about gang warfare on London streets (and it is happening - no doubt about it) and you tremble each time you have to go on the tube, take a look at this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywLhNwSBizE&feature=dir. Now there's a good attitude to tube travel and community spirit. Good for them - although I don't know quite how they got away with it...

My Channel 4 documentary this Friday

It's called 'The Insider - Britain's Debt Crisis', it's on at 7.30pm on Friday 31st August (against Coronation Street and, probably, the Diana memorial - great) and I'm presenting it. Do watch if you can. You will see:

- Andy who bought 4 pubs on credit cards and was then made bankrupt owing £250,000 (impressive)

- Jools the bi-polar manic depressive who was done for fraud (and then let off) after getting a loan of at least £15,000 when she was on benefits

- Suzie who's husband killed himself because the bank kept harassing him to pay off a business debt he had secured against his home (I really don't like secured loans)

- Three students who got £32,000 credit between them in an afternoon with no income to show for themselves.

Sadly, they had no space in the programme for a young woman who got a credit card with a £3,500 limit by saying she was Indiana Jones, architect, earning £80,000 a year on the form.

There are some fun statistics and a few scary ones too. Should be worth a watch before you go out on the razz Friday night!

If meetings were like the internet

You have to see this sketch of a board meeting that is conducted the way conversations on the internet are run. Hilarious - so true!

http://www.spareroom.co.nz/2007/08/20/if-business-meetings-were-like-internet-comments/