where eagles fear to perch

Following on from building the pergolas and summerhouse late last year ( see posts passim ),  over the winter and early spring we've sou...

We've just replaced our 15-year old car, which we've owned for the last 9 years.   It was just about on its last legs, was going to ...

Calculating portfolio returns has been a hot, or at least a warm, topic on the FI blogs recently, in particular with regard to accounting fo...

A High Yield Portfolio (HYP) seems to me a harmless and generic name for any group of investments cobbled together in an attempt to bring ...

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 ...