One day, back when the world was in greyscale, my mum – then just a young girl – was playing up at the dinner table. This annoyed her father (my grandfather, of course), who warned her that if she didn’t stop misbehaving, he would take his bowl of baked beans ...

DIYFather has an answer to the slow economic recovery and GST increase. Our new Book Baby on a Budget published on September 1st delivers real savings to families. The 130-page book presents the combined wisdom of fathers around the world on how to sav...

This past week, there has been devastation in Pakistan, an MI6 employee has been found dead in a sports bag and 33 Chilean miners have a long wait before they see daylight again. But, for people in the UK, tongues have been wagging about one thing. A woman who lobbed ...

I’m not normally one to talk about politics, but I’m going to begin this post by disagreeing with our Deputy Prime Minister – who, by the way, is every caricaturist’s nightmare, as he has no prominent features. He was speaking at a public meeting in Croydon, and the topic of conversation ...

I’ve recently begun to read what is written on Twitter by the 370 people I’m following, and have stumbled across this great networking venture by Tara of Sticky Fingers fame called ‘The Gallery’. If you’ve come through to this post after clicking on one of my Twitter links, then you ...

I don’t know why I’m even writing this blog post. I’m rich, you see; rich beyond my wildest dreams. That makes me better than you. In fact, just to prove it, here’s a tenner – or, if you’re American, $15.4559. This week I have been fortunate enough to have received ...

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Today, across the UK, thousands of A-level students received their results. Cue the cliché photographs: pretty young blondes jumping whilst clutching handfuls of paper; beaming pupils clutching one another in an awkward first-time embrace; and the inevitable nine year-old who has achieved an A grade. Little git. So much onus is placed ...

School, for me, holds many memories: some good…and some bad. Bad, like being part of a relay race in the house swimming gala. I dove in first, thrashed around, thinking I was doing really well, and came out last. Goodness knows what I must have looked like. Or the time ...

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