by Jo Weaver | Jul 15, 2026 | Sport
THE GOOD, PART 2: WELCOME TO A WHOLE NEW [TENNIS] WORLD! I arrived in the then Czechoslovakia in 1990. No need to go into all the details of why, what I was doing, etc (you can find out more if you want to though in my book ‘The Charge of the Brit Brigade – Tales from...
by Jo Weaver | Jul 12, 2026 | Sport
PART ONE: The Good Introduction I grew up in a wealthy country town in the South of England in the 60s and 70s. We didn’t have any money, but we had a garden and a field behind our house, and being sports-mad from birth, and with the advantage of an older brother who...
by Jo Weaver | Jun 18, 2026 | Writing
If you are reading this blog, then it may be that you have seen my books or even read one or other of them. My latest one, Look Out, Here Comes the Fat Girl!, in particular, has been blasted out quite a lot on social media. Not by me, I might add – I am a bit of a...
by Jo Weaver | Nov 7, 2024 | Business, Politics
I have never been much of a ‘women’s libber’. I believe that people doing the same job should be paid the same, whether men, women or anything else, and I know that in many ways life can be a lot more difficult for professional women than men, but then life is not...
by Jo Weaver | Oct 31, 2024 | Business, Health
I and many of my friends are of an age that we regularly find ourselves saying the sort of things that our parents said when we were young. You know, stuff like ‘it wasn’t like that when we were growing up’, or ‘there is no hope for this young generation,’ blah, blah,...
