Thursday 13 November 2008
Many people probably feel it isn’t Christmas without some decorations. If you’re thinking about digging your home decorations out of storage, it’s worth taking a moment to tot up the cost of your Christmas cheer.
Without wanting to come across as a scrooge, conventional Christmas lights are just too expensive in terms of running costs and [...]
I’ve been reading lots of articles recently about the rising cost of oil making it more viable to drill hard to reach reserves. When previously this would have been too costly, now it looks more sensible for oil companies. This is obviously not the world’s best news. However, the increase in energy costs is starting [...]
Here’s a concept - stop me if you’ve heard it before - how about you only pay for what you use? Those clever folks at the electricity and gas companies have been at it for years: install a meter and then charge your customers for what they actually use. Clever idea really. Much like the [...]
That’s what you’d have seen if you came down my road yesterday morning. (At least if you were walking - if you were driving, you’d have seen one which said ‘Road Closed’). Yesterday, was ‘Crane’ day. We’ve been waiting a long long time for this to happen - we had to close off the street [...]
Well, our builders have been busy. We now have a brand new hot water and central heating system, and a flat that’s nowhere close to being lived in. In fact, most of everything has been ripped out.
And then they stopped working. So our flat’s been a bit of a mess for a while. However, things [...]
