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Phyllis Is One Of The Tunnel Boring Machines For Crossrail And One Of The Most Extraordinary Characters I Met, Visiting Some Of The Most Exciting Infrastructure In Britain. Crossrail Is The New Railway Which Will Run From West To East Right Across London. It Is The Biggest Engineering Project In Europe - And Phyllis Herself Is Not Exactly Dainty.

But Sometimes It's Good To Dare Yourself To Do The Unthinkable. And Rather Than Stand In Front Of An Audience With No Clothes On, I Decided To Have A Go At Stand-up Comedy.

We Escaped The Last Big Bursting Of A Bubble - The Dotcom Bubble - With A Relatively Light U.s. Recession. On That Occasion, The World Economy Found Its Way Back On Track Fairly Quickly.

Black Friday Is Not Another Bad Hair Day In Wall Street. It's The Term Used By American Retailers To Describe The Day After The Thanksgiving Holiday, Seen As The Semi-official Start Of Christmas Shopping Season.

What Comes With A Job As A Staff Member Of The Bbc Is A Certain Self-censoring That You Get Utterly Used To. You Don't Say Everything You Think. You Hold Back On Some Things.