• I should preface this by saying I’m very happy with my bank. Before and during this recession it has emerged with an enhanced reputation [...]

  Counting the cost

  March 31, 2010
• The plan was that by now the rack would have been put on the back of the car, the bike fixed upon it, and I would be packing my various bags for [...]

  Coulda, shoulda, woulda…

  July 10, 2009
• We are living in strange times – an economic recession that no-one can seemingly predict with too much certainty and which understandably [...]

  High anxiety, blog power, sporting recession and forgotten art

  April 14, 2009
• It has been quite a week, all things considered. In fact, it has been a very good week (more details at another date). So here’s a round-up [...]

  Debt blog, Obama on Xbox, subterranean views, our weekly bread and the toast museum

  October 17, 2008

• I consider myself a very lucky man. I’ve always been a glass half full type and for so many reasons I’ve always felt I’m [...]

  Caring about poverty – Blog Action Day 2008

  October 15, 2008
• We are in financial meltdown, our planet is revolting after we subjected it to decades of abuse and neglect, war is being waged and terrorists [...]

  Bald, deaf and craving the perfect body while the machines take over the world

  October 13, 2008
• I’ve always been a words kind of person. Numbers have never really floated my boat. I can get by when it comes to maths and the [...]

  The sums don’t add up

  June 2, 2008
• There is an element of “yeah, tell us something we don’t know” about the latest study into what fuels successful trading on the [...]

  So macho, so rich, so what?

  April 15, 2008