If you have no debts and some savings then hurry to set up a cash ISA as then you don’t get taxed on the savings. You have until the end of the tax year on April 5th to have an ISA set up with this year’s allowance.
Money Saving Expert now recommends Alliance and Leicester’s [...]
I think I can finally say that I’ve finished working at Aspective and will be starting my new job at Venda on Monday 13th of March!
I’d been seriously looking for a new job since the start of January and had been generally unhappy since at least the last quarter of 2005. But I had [...]
You may have noticed there has been a lack of posts here recently, and might be thinking this is the typical slowdown that happens when a new blogger loses interest.
Well, I can’t promise I won’t ever lose interest, but I’m not done yet! It’s just been a very hectic period of my life which I [...]
The Ricky Gervais Show
All the cool kids have been listening to this one. If you like Gervais or his sidekicks Stephen Merchant (co-writer of Extras) and Karl Pilkington (their producer from Xfm) then you’ll certainly like this. It’s outrageously funny, though I still can’t work out exactly how much of Karl Pilkington’s insanity [...]
For the last 5 or so months now we’ve been doing almost all our grocery shopping online and having it delivered. We’ve used Ocado and Sainsbury’s, and here are some of our experiences.
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Last night was my first game of “proper” friendly poker, specifically Texas Hold’em.
I’d been wanting to try poker for a while so we’d tried to organise a Strugglers poker night, and in the process I also got invited to one with people from work. As it turned out, Strugglers poker got postponed, leaving me [...]
The other day I got this strange text message on my phone saying I’d been sent a video message, from a phone number I didn’t recognise, pointing me to Orange’s MMS site. Thinking it was spam I forgot about it for a few days, but then as I was sending a text message [...]