where eagles fear to perch

Today's an anniversary of sorts. In April 2013 I woke up in the early hours of a Saturday morning with my heart beating wildly and ver...

We've just clocked up six full years into the 'Grand Plan' , so here are the usual two graphs :- SAVINGS POT to Mar-19 ...

When we did the major landscaping works on our garden extension six years ago, one of the trees we planted at that time was a young Victori...

Here's the quarterly update of the combined portfolio on the last working day of March :-

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...