where eagles fear to perch

Well, 2020 is almost over.  Here's where all the money went, in what turned out to be a very unusual year for our spending patterns :- c...

Well, it's that time of year again.  Here's my regular review showing broadly where all the money was spent in 2019.   I'm posti...

So where did all the money go in 2018 ?  Here's our regular end-of-year review. click on the graphic for a larger image ...

Here's the annual look back at where all the money went during the year.  A flurry of snow this morning put paid to plans for a final ro...

With just one day to go until the end of the year, and no plans to venture beyond the garden gate until 2017, here's the annual look ba...

It's that time of the year, yet again....  I know there's still a few days to go until the end of the year, but I'm highly unlik...

It's that time of the year again.  Here's a breakdown of where all the money went in 2014....click for a larger image... Bas...

I spotted this posting on the Firestarter's blog, one of the many fine FI blogs I visit occasionally.... http://thefirestarter.co.uk/...

At the start of 2013, I decided to categorise my spending throughout this year, so I could see exactly where all the money goes.   This i...

With electricity prices becoming increasingly expensive, and likely to continue to rise way above inflation, we recently concluded a seven-...

We finally bit the bullet and ordered one of those cross-handled briquette machines from the internet.  Despite my whinge last year about t...

Like most households, the amount of paper regularly pushed through our letterbox is astounding.     Every week, we receive reams of local...

It was time for a holiday, the first real one we'd had since a package to Turkey in 2008, although admittedly we did spend around ...

Making your own wine is a great pastime on many levels.... Firstly, it's very cheap and the taxman doesn't get to surreptiti...

Our home is fitted with a ten-year old Worcester 15/19 oil-fired combination boiler which provides the heating and hot water.   Where we...