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I study humans and machines and find both of them quite beautiful. I am into "new things" but love old-fashioned words. I tend to believe that the whole is more than the sum of its parts and that life is easier if you can have coffee, chocolate and gossip.

Lucy May Constantini spent the best part of a decade working in a freelance capacity in contemporary dance and theatre as a creator, performer and teacher.  She then trained as a broadcast journalist and worked for the BBC.  She now works part-time as a less charming version of Ugly Betty and is focusing on writing and dance while practising yoga and studying mathematics.  She is British and French and grew up over three continents with a special and wistful fondness for equatorial Africa.

Cecil: Just because I'm named after a cinema in Hull which closed about 20 years ago does not mean I cannot have my own blog. Most of the films I will be reviewing on this blog would probably never have been shown at the Cecil Cinema in Hull, but it's the memory that counts... Bea: Bea-ing from Down Under, I will be taking an interest in films from a more southern clime, although this could mean Italy, Turkey, Brighton or Australia...

Sarah Dudney has worked in the City for the past six years as a headhunter, travelling to Tokyo, New York, Zurich and Geneva. She was brought up and educated on the West coast of Scotland and is still recovering from that experience. She read modern languages at Edinburgh University.

Starting life by the seaside in Morecambe, Caroline has moved via too many jobs and interests through Spain via Texas and Scotland to London. A published translator and director of a small Scottish film company she currently works for the European Parliament UK Office as Press attache and Head of Outreach.

recent blogs
 
Europe Day

Caroline Boyle, 13th May 2007 - 20:14

For the past ten years one of the focal points of my working year has been Europe Day

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Is Happiness Getting On Your Nerves?

Sarah Dudney, 30th April 2007 - 14:10

If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time? Edith Wharton

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Powerful images

Caroline Boyle, 25th April 2007 - 22:37

Chernobyl and the Funeral Train of JFK - what do they have in common? Soviet Union and USA what do they have to do with the EU or European Culture?

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Power point

Caroline Boyle, 01st April 2007 - 14:29

The telephone rang on Friday afternoon and a desperate voice asked whether I was free on Monday at 9am to do a presentation. Someone had dropped out.

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EU at 50: Is the EU a Joneser?

Caroline Boyle, 17th March 2007 - 14:58

I was reading an article in a magazine which introduced me to the concept of the Joneser.

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Conversations and the self-portrait

Caroline Boyle, 02nd March 2007 - 12:37

Last Friday I went unsuspectingly to an event in the 100 ideas series at the Hayward Gallery. It was a talk on re-inventing the self-portrait. Little did I realise that it might very well be mine.

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Birmingham in the snow, and other places

Caroline Boyle, 17th February 2007 - 14:18

One of those weeks where you wonder how you are going to fit everything in and not end up exhausted - even when the days are filled with interesting encounters and new places and experiences

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Ageing

Caroline Boyle, 31st January 2007 - 00:06

A co-incidence: to be invited to a lecture on Ageing on my birthday. Age Concern were host to Dr Alex Kalache from the WHO

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Taking a gamble

Caroline Boyle, 21st January 2007 - 11:36

The Foreign Press Assocation was founded in 1888 and is the only association of its kind in the UK. Politically non-aligned it is one of the oldest clubs for foreign correspondents in the world.

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Sandwiches at our desks

Caroline Boyle, 15th January 2007 - 23:35

For five years the City of London Corporation has been running a placement scheme for young regulators, bankers and lawyers from those states which joined the EU in 2004.

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