What is the best ISA for an 18 year old? That’s an important question for fathers who want their teenagers to start seriously saving. An ISA (stands for individual savings account) is a tax efficient way of saving as all interest and profits are protected by a tax-free wrapper in the UK. So how do […]
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In recent weeks, there’s been a series of revelations about people or events connected with one of the biggest media companies in the world – Disney. Disney, the home of favourites like Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse as well as modern classics such as Aladdin and (dare I say) Frozen, has been caught up in […]
The last few weeks have been great for getting some serious reading done. I’ve been on vacation, a business trip and ‘home-alone’ while my wife and kids visited family in the north of Scotland. So its only right that I share what I’ve been reading or listening to book-wise. Here goes: Democrat to Deplorable by […]
What does it mean to do low input gardening? Is it a realistic way to go about growing your own fruit and vegetables or is it pie-in-the-sky hippy nonsense? That’s what I hope to address in this article – the approach that I call low input gardening. This is part of a bigger concept called […]
In my previous post I introduced you to the idea of Self Provision Gardening. In this next instalment I want to explain to you some of the concepts behind this gardening philosophy. I’ve been actively growing a self provision garden for nearly two years and have had some great success as well as providing interest […]
If you like reading my gardening articles, then you’re in for a treat as I’ve been working away at something which I’m now ready to unveil. And if you’re not into gardening, read it anyway, you might learn something…. This series of posts has been a while in the making. Not that I’ve been writing […]
I first came across the term ‘helicopter parents’ when I was researching a blog post here on the blog. I’d never heard of helicopter parents or parenting before. Actually, it sounded kinda cool – like the ‘Jet Set’. But the sad truth is that helicopter parents are the opposite of cool. In fact they’re a […]
It’s soon approaching International Albinism Awareness Day 2018 (Wednesday 13th June) and so to mark this occasion I wanted to write about something deep and personal. I want to tell you about my girl who has a rare form of albinism. Why write about these experiences? Is there catharsis in it for me? Perhaps. But […]
What is an Xennial? That was the question I found asking myself recently. Xennial was a word I’d never come across but I was intrigued and wanted to know more. An Xennial (pronounced Ex-Ennial) is someone who is a little bit ‘Generation X-y’ and a little bit of a millenial, but doesn’t fall neatly into […]
If you’re confused by the title of this blog post, you should be. But what you should also know is that there is context that you should know before clicking off. And a good story. I’ve been writing for more than ten years now – with a one or two breaks. But life never […]