Reading the Fairtrade Foundation's newsletter, I noticed All espresso-based drinks sold in Starbucks in the UK are Ireland are now Fairtrade. Good news! I can now relax my boycott of Starbucks ... though I still will prefer to find independent cof...
It has definitely been financially sensible to take the second car off the road whilst Emma was overseas. Now that she's back, it's time to un-SORNStatutory Off-Road Notification it and get it going again. As usual, there's more to this than meets...
(I came across this in an article, and I thought I'd jot the main points down here, so I can find them again later.) There are 30 million incomes in Britain the top 10% (3m people) earn on average 105k before tax (so that's me out then) the top 1...
... is the number of British towns the average Brit visits in their lifetime (according to the Telegraph). Unbelievably (to me) it continues to say that 1 million of us have never our hometown. But how many towns are there in Britain? Wikipedia ha...
With Emma now safely in Malawi, we thought we should see if we could go back to just using one car. After all we managed with one before she started driving lessons. So I SORN'd the Fiat, which was an easy online operation at the DVLA. I've also a...
All these films got me thinking about how many we see in a year. Adding up the ones seen on cinema, rentals and TV, I reckon it's about 60 in the last year - that's one every 6 days. Or perhaps more worryingly, 5 days' worth. Hmm.
When I was in Washington just after the results of the election were announced ...