January and February are difficult months financially for many of us as we juggle our funds to try and make sure that we are able to pay all of the bills that drop through the letterbox over the next week or so as well as cope with the fact that an early salary or wages payment in December makes January…
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I bought some microphones a few years ago to use when I’m playing music. I can’t remember exactly when I purchased them but it is certainly long enough to make them well outside of any warranty period that a manufacturer should cover, and indeed probably outside any protection that I could reasonably expect to have under consumer rights legislation. They…
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Travelling is not easy at the best of times but coming home on a very delayed flight to discover that the airport you arrive at has a problem with its baggage retrieval system doesn’t help already frayed nerves. And that’s on top of the queue you have already been standing in for fifteen minutes while you struggle through passport control…
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The Bank of England decided at lunchtime today to leave interest rates where they are for another month. Reaction was swift and by mid-afternoon my in-box was full of press releases from interested parties. The content of these releases varied greatly. Half of the senders praised the Bank of England for leaving rates unchanged, while the other half suggested that…
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