It’s those darn ISAs again. For the benefit of foreign nationals, ISA = Individual Savings Account, the interest (or lack thereof) on which is supposedly tax-free. Today’s focus falls on Marks & Spencer Financials. We’ve had a pot of cash…
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ISA Madness
Well, here we are again at the end of another financial year. The difference this time compared to previous financial years is that this particular financial year has been an unmitigated disaster with the brunt of said disaster being born…
An Alarming Experience
After what is traditionally a stressful and long winded process in England, Carol’s mother, affectionately known to me as RM (Rhoda Marjorie, lest you try to supply any variations), finally completed her purchase of a sheltered retirement flat on Friday…
Senseless Economists
From today’s BBC news business pages today: Surprise hike in consumer prices The rising price of imported goods – particularly fruit, vegetables and toys – has caused an unexpected rise in one measure of UK inflation. The Consumer Prices Index…
Watery Whipsnade
We’ve been enjoying an uncharacteristically sunny interlude for about the last week and, even though it was a weekend and was likely to be swarming with rugrats, our friends at Whipsnade Zoo beckoned. This was in part encouraged by the…
Infidelity Pays
Last year when our Mazda’s insurance was up for renewal, I leapt onto one or two of the plethora of price comparison web sites to see if I could better my car insurance price. I was very pleased to see…
DNA Testing
We started doing some genealogical rummaging through our family skeletons about a year ago. Using sites like Genes Reunited, one soon starts bumping into other potentially related folks sorting through similar closets. My surname, Curd, is relatively unusual; one doesn’t…
Phone Tales, the Sequel
So, my bargain basement new Nokia 2630 phone/camera/radio device now seems to be fully functional. This satisfying minor success followed a considerable amount of judicious debugging (it’s good to know I haven’t switched off completely since retiring) in which my…
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Hammers and Nails
The original text of a particularly useful quote, attributed to Maslow’s Psychology of Science, is apparently: I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. …
Phone Tales
I’m not a great one for mobile phones. I think it’s partly because I neither needed one nor was provided one at work, so I never got into the habit of spending hours printing money for mobile phone companies. Doubtless,…
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