Just looking at some old stuff and came across a post I made in November 2011. Ireland was just starting to grow out of its last crash (partly by lowering […]
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Time to Change the Car (Part 2)
I started thinking about changing my car in the summer of 2019. I wrote in November of that year about how really I should consider my car as a FIRE […]
Read more2020 Budget – what happened ?
When I looked at my plan for 2020 little did I realise that it would utterly be turned on its head. That said, sure things turned out different, but there […]
Read morePlatform Costs – Do they Matter ?
I have used Hargreaves Landsdown as my Pension & Investing platform for over 4 years. Yes they have higher fees than many and a dubious record in recommendations (which I […]
Read moreAm I mad to sell a house for £30K less than market value ? Exploring the Perception of Value
I just sold my late mums house in 9 days for nearly about £30k less than I could have made … am I mad ? Let’s see …. […]
Read moreUpdated Cost of Coffee, Cake & cookies
Last year I had a look at our cost of coffee & cake. Not an inconsiderable amount with around £600 just on coffee for the year (calculated). Well, today I […]
Read moreShould we consider chunking up retirement into different phases ?
One of the things about the Trinity study (akka the ‘4% rule’) was that it made the assumption of a fixed (corrected for inflation, so growing) annual amount taken out […]
Read moreTime to Change the Car (Part 1)
It’s 3 weeks since I published an article. I have a few ideas in draft, some investigations and the like, but must say that the seemingly endless house clearing of […]
Read moreThe Memories in Photo’s
The Ugly The last couple of weeks have been a challenge in a number of ways. First we get this awful and needless death by a police officer in the […]
Read moreClap for Carers and the Normalisation of Behaviour
During the peak of our CV-19 crisis, as hospitals became full and almost on a war footing, some bright spark had the idea of everyone going outside their front door […]
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