Filed under: Housekeeping | Tags: civility, etiquette, iTunes, manners, podcast, protocol
I am pleased to announce a new podcast, which is going to take the place of this blog. The first episode is out today and throughout the course of the podcast I shall be sharing my thoughts on social trends, commenting on what The Done Thing, and chatting to other etiquette experts about matters of manners and protocol.
Click here to listen to episode one. (The podcast will shortly be on iTunes.)
It was time to bite the bullet and join Twitter. You can follow me if you so wish here: http://twitter.com/williamhanson
Filed under: Housekeeping | Tags: consultancy, etiquette, new, protocol, the english manner, website
Leading protocol and etiquette consultancy firm The English Manner, for which I am a tutor, relaunched its website yesterday. Please take a look if you have time.
I am slowly trying to upload as many of my TV appearances onto YouTube as I can – it’s a work in progress and possibly I’ll eventually get all the radio stuff on there too. But for now, if you want to have a look, click here.
Filed under: Housekeeping
If you thought my current website looked relatively sleek, glossy and professional…wait until you see the new one, launching soon. But this blog’s new banner/logo at the top will give you some sort of a clue.
For those who are interested: I am pleased and very excited to announce that I am now a tutor for leading international protocol and etiquette consultants, The English Manner. More information can be found on their website (which is in the process of being updated – check back in January for lots of new features, including a blog that I’ll be doing…just like this one…but probably better!).
Filed under: Housekeeping, Media | Tags: australia, channel 9, ladette, ladette to lady, lady, manners, television, tv
I can now reveal, to anyone who is remotely interested, that in mid-November I shall be filming for the Australian Channel 9’s new series of ‘Ladette to Lady’. Sadly, we film in Britain and not in Australia. More details of my appearance will appear here once I’ve completed filming. (I can’t post specific details at the moment, sorry.)
Filed under: Housekeeping, Media | Tags: 1950s, bblb, big brother, blog, edwardian, rachel rice, television, tv
It’s out with the old and in with the new at the blog. I’ve moved to a different blog hosting site now (www.wordpress.com – v good), and hopefully you can all notice the aesthetic difference; I’m already reveling in all the new fun and games I can do as a ‘webmaster’. Sadly, the one bad thing about moving sites is I’ve lost all your comments you’ve made about the entries. Ho hum. It’s a good excuse for you all to make more on the new posts (or the old, whatever you please).
Well, last night 4.9 million saw Rachel Rice win ‘Big Brother 9′. Good for her. She deserved to win. I have a passing interest in this series as I was the manners expert on Big Brother’s Little Brother, the official fanzine show. For once I’m actually going to say something positive as I’m normally just on here, frantically bashing away the the keyboard typing some tirade and coming to the conclusion that life as we know it is awful and we should all go back to loving in the 1950s or even the Edwardian era. But, nevertheless, Rachel was well-mannered, logical and decent. A break from some of the past winners of the series. Rachel should be celebrated, lauded, canonized. My only fear is that the press will tire quickly of her and instead spend the next two months focussing on her fellow ex-housemates (mentioning no names) and bypass her as she’s too ‘normal’. Therefore, let’s all go back to living in the 1950s.
