where eagles fear to perch

These days, I'm becoming increasingly uncomfortable with holding large chunks of  individual company shares, preferring instead to sprea...

And so this is Christmas, and how have we done ?   Firstly, the combined portfolio spreadsheet updated on Monday 31 December 2018.

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 ...

Following on from my post in September about building the pergolas , for a while afterwards I was thinking that the larger one to the side o...

I mentioned this subject in a post a few years back, but inspired (!) by the recent decision by NS&I to tie future index-linked certific...

We have three variegated 'Spanish Dagger' plants (Yucca Gloriosa) in the garden, two of which we bought quite small and planted in t...

We've just returned from a holiday on the island of Madeira, which is a place we'd never visited before.  As keen gardeners, we...