The papers are quite happy to keep reporting all the doom and gloom of today because it sells papers much better than good news. Every day we hear of wage slumps, strikes, rising cost of fuel and food and the drop in the housing market. Of course, people are all affected by these things but is it as drastic as they like to claim? There are still quite a lot of people comfortably affording their...
Who'd have thought that such a mini little car would take off the way it has? It looks like something a child would drive, has about as much spare room as you need to fit your handbag in and has the appearance of a car that needs dragging backwards just to get some welly behind it.
However, the humble Mini has taken off beyond Cooper's wildest dreams and has become a veritable icon in the...
There aren't many men who don't see James Bond as their ultimate hero. Doing all those stunts in all those fantastic cars, writing them off as if they were bought from pocket money, making it all look so easy, getting the baddie and always, always, getting the most beautiful women in the film. Seeing a picture of James bond propped up on his car looking like a C & A advert is one look that your...
Jane had struggled this week. Seeing the neighbours on the school run, knowing full well they were talking about her behind her back, she tried hard not to grin at them. Living round that area had been getting her down for some time. She was no snob but the neighbours thought that she was. She was simply shy and found it difficult to start conversation. Besides, when she stood at the school...
Far be it from me to be the bearer of bad news but you are going to die. This is not some idle threat or some premonition of impending doom, just a basic fact of life in that yes, it does end.
What we do between now and then is what counts. What we chose to do with our assets once we're gone is going to be the final thing we have a say over so say it well. Making a will is an essential part...
In essence, our bodies are very similar to our cars. They transport us from one place to another, they require regular maintenance and fuel and occasionally break down on us. At the end of it all, we are all carted off to the great scrap heap in the sky.
If my body was a car then I would have been born as one of those flash new Mini cars. At just over five foot tall, I've always been...
He calls it nagging, I call them gentle reminders. He says if I nag, he will ignore me, I say if he doesn't listen to my reminders and act on them then I may push him over a cliff but it's not going in.
What is it about men that results in them getting six months into a marriage and then seeing every request not to view their lives as young, free and single and still living with their...
The industrial revolution changed the Western world beyond belief. It changed the structure of families, of work, of how people lived and where they lived. But why did it make such a difference and was this difference good for us?
Families were spread out pretty evenly across the country and you would get areas where generations of families would stay, continuing the family business and...
Small businesses are facing challenging times to stay afloat. It's not so much the service or product that is being supplied that will make or break a company but rather the management and accounting skills that determine whether the business can see through these leaner times.
So, how can a business stay ahead of its game and beat off its competitors? They need to be as competitive as...
It always seems to be the people, or the companies, with the most money that like to charge the maximum they can for everything. Despite being in a better position to offer more preferential rates, they charge top whack and still get away with it. And we let them. We feel held over a barrel, paying their prices, grumbling to each other and still paying their prices.
One bug bear of many...
