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Marina Gerner, freelance feature writer & critic

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Category: Marina’s Monetary Musings

Money Observer: First money memories

Posted on February 21, 2018November 16, 2021 by marinagerner

What’s your first memory of money? Psychoanalysts could have a field day unravelling how people’s first memories shape their views… Read more Money Observer: First money memories

Money Observer: What Piketty has in common with reality TV

Posted on August 31, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

‘Who says a reality television show can’t convey an important message?’ asked my friend Elly Steinberg, who is a documentary… Read more Money Observer: What Piketty has in common with reality TV

Money Observer: Lessons from the monkey sanctuary

Posted on June 19, 2017June 25, 2018 by marinagerner

Last week I went on a holiday to Tel Aviv. Given how weak the pound is, my friend and I… Read more Money Observer: Lessons from the monkey sanctuary

Money Observer: How about making trainers more sustainable

Posted on April 20, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

I have never heard a laugh as loud as the one let out by my local cobbler when I brought… Read more Money Observer: How about making trainers more sustainable

Money Observer: Here’s what Brexit is doing to our diet

Posted on April 17, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

As we know, inflation is upon us, and it’s on an upward trend. Once a month, the Office for National… Read more Money Observer: Here’s what Brexit is doing to our diet

Money Observer: What the travel industry tells us about the state of globalisation

Posted on March 22, 2017February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

Many UK-listed companies reported profits this year, but certain businesses did not: notably travel and leisure sector firms such as… Read more Money Observer: What the travel industry tells us about the state of globalisation

Money Observer: On gold

Posted on February 2, 2017June 25, 2018 by marinagerner

In Greek mythology, King Midas famously craved the ability to turn everything he touched into gold. At first he was… Read more Money Observer: On gold

Money Observer: Why our politicians should be able to price a potato

Posted on December 1, 2016February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

It’s often said that politicians are so detached they don’t even know the price of a pint of milk or… Read more Money Observer: Why our politicians should be able to price a potato

Money Observer: BA does its bit to end EU free movement

Posted on September 29, 2016February 7, 2019 by marinagerner

In the eleventh hour before a weekend trip to Prague with friends, I was about to pack my cabin-size hand… Read more Money Observer: BA does its bit to end EU free movement

Money Observer: Hands Off My Cappuccino

Posted on January 22, 2016June 25, 2018 by marinagerner

A certain piece of advice has been circulating in personal finance discussions like a pesky fly. Now that it has… Read more Money Observer: Hands Off My Cappuccino

Some poetry while you’re here

In a crowded London shop
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.
While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.

– W.B. Yeats

How dreary – to be – Sombody!
How public – like a Frog –
To tell one’s name – the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!

– Emily Dickinson

At lunchtime I bought a huge orange—
The size of it made us all laugh.
I peeled it and shared it with Robert and Dave—
They got quarters and I had a half.

– Wendy Cope

Always to shine,
to shine everywhere,
to the very deeps of the last days,
to shine—
and to hell with everything else!
That is my motto—
and the sun’s!

– Vladimir Mayakovsky

Can it pull extraordinary faces?
Is it usually sick on a swing?
Does it spend all its time at the races,
or fiddling with pieces of string?
Has it views of its own about money?
Does it think patriotism enough?
Are its stories vulgar but funny?
O tell me the truth about love.

– WH Auden

I used to think all poets were Byronic-
Mad, bad and dangerous to know.
And then I met a few. Yes it’s ironic-
I used to think all poets were Byronic.
They’re mostly wicked as a ginless tonic
And wild as pension plans.

– Wendy Cope again

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