where eagles fear to perch

Despite my  views on goal-setting  I expressed last January, I do actually have one for this year, although it's financial rather than ...

We've just arrived in the Canary Islands, where we'll spend the next six weeks in an apartment hotel. Now that we don't have ...

The results are in for the last quarter of 2016, and so here's the spreadsheet for the combined portfolio as updated on Friday 30 Decem...

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...

Yes, it's yet another garden planter ... This is a one-off, made from an old cast-iron gas stove I picked up a couple of weeks ago.  I...

To the uninitiated, Premium Bonds are a form of lending to the UK government but without any guarantee of an investment return (although yo...

Another post on the same theme as the last one !   Although I don't intend the blog to become simply a  repository for information on ...