Mortgages are up - housing still down
Despite the very best efforts of the BBC, the housing market simply refuses to go up. It seems to be a monthly game for them in their endless quest to fill out acres of empty space in a 24 hour news programme. Why else would monthly mortgage news be mandatory.
Most of [...]
Is there such a thing as free insurance?
Here’s my thought for today. Might you now need to take out insurance against your insurance company not paying up? It seems unlikely but the thought is now crossing my mind with increasing regularity.
I only ask because once again I am being offered free contents insurance when I take out home insurance. [...]
UNESCO world heritage sites
Did you know that UNESCO has seen fit to recognise 28 UNESCO World Heritage Sites here in the UK? Me neither and now I have looked into it, it’s a motley collection. I wouldn’t travel far to see some of them.
Edinburgh’s is near the top of the list – but to my mind [...]
Is Global Warming a Con?
Is the world getting warmer or cooler. It’s getting cooler if you look back 1000 years – but not if you try a bit harder and go back to the time of Christ. Arctic temperatures are now higher than at any time in the last 2,000 years, research reveals.
Changes to the Earth’s [...]
Going to South America
I’ve been interested in South America since I got a jig map as a primary school kid. Once I had worked out where everything went I was fascinated by the place. Mysterious jungle cities, strange and wonderful creatures, mighty mountain ranges, impenetrable jungles – and the driest desert on earth. There was [...]
September 16, 2009Time for a loan
For months now interest rates have been really low – and seemingly destined to stay low. You’s think there is surely never a better time to take out a loan. There are only two problems that I can think of. There ahs to be something you really can’t live without and can’t [...]
September 16, 2009Farewell Patrick Swayze
Now I am not much of a movie buff, but even i was slightly perplexed and annoyed by the way the media announced Patrick Swayze’s death. Listening to the BBC, you would have thought that the only thing he did in his life was Dirty Dancing and Ghost. But anyone who went [...]
September 15, 2009Adios Keith Floyd
So farewell Keith Floyd. The broadcasting legend, raconteur, bon viveur & erratic chef went out surely in a way of his own choosing – passing quietly away after a typically understated meal of oysters, partridge & champagne. His final words apparently were “I haven’t felt this well in ages”.
I had a lot [...]
Pirate raid in Scotland!
Pieces of eight, shiver me timbers and pass round the grog – it seems that the pirate ship used in the Pirates of the Caribbean films has been raided in Scotland. Jack Sparrow must have on shore looking for a decent malt to top-up the grog supplies and the thieves must have been [...]
September 14, 2009Paris Hilton Joins Literary Greats
I found it pretty amusing when I saw that the erstwhile porn video star and self-proclaimed Socialite Paris Hilton has been immortalised in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, alongside Nobel Prize winners, philosophers and presidents.
Fashion advice from the 28-year-old heiress is one of 20,000 new entries in the prestigious book.
“Dress cute wherever [...]