It was a last minute break we kind of sprung on a friend out of nowhere. Last month several of us smooched off to Portugal for a weekend of surfing and eating. The surfing came first of course, but it was always followed by enough food and wine to make sl...

Cashing in your pension may sound like rather a hasty and misguided decision. Indeed the FSA ( Financial Services Authority ) makes it very clear that in most cases you will receive markedly less should you cash in your pension chips early rather than ...

Contributing to a pension is the sensible way to proceed whilst you are earning money. Although our consumerist society urges spending and borrowing in order to keep up with the latest and greatest products and services we also need to think about tomo...

Investment in Off Plan properties is increasingly being seen as a way to reap very favourable returns in a fluctuating market. Off Plan is the term used to refer to buying into a property during the state of pre-construction. The process benefi...

Now I have been in the market for a mortgage for a few years now. I have been working hard to get my foot upon that elusive first rung of the housing ladder. My income has increased greater than the rate of inflation, which should be a good thing, but ...

Builders need to wear decent safety boots during the course of their work. Theirs is one of the most hazardous professions when comes to feet.There are all manner of menaces out there which can be broken down into three main areas of dange...

With breaking news across the wires is that following the US Federal Reserve's announcement that has slashed the base interest rate to 4.75% ( a drop of half a point ), the FTSE gained a 2% rise. The knock on affect of this bold move by the US Reserve ...

Hitting ctrl+P or however you decide to output your screen's contents onto paper can be such an easy thing to do. With powerful and swift network printing it can be accomplished without much thought; but printing, even with the most ecofriendly printer...

In the news recently we seem to be hearing terrible tales of personal danger on our streets. It seems as if noone is now safe when even an 11 year old can be gunned down in the light of day.So we must all consider some sort of personal protection. ...

The name Kyocera first, I think, came into my consciousness a couple of years ago through a radio commercial. I liked the name immediately but did not really follow what the ad was about. Somehow over the next year or so I kept noticing the name. Kyoce...

Online shopping can be an experience fraught with confusions, there are, now so many merchants vying for your trade and so many ways in which they fight for your attention that there are many paths to the online basket and checkout. The first place man...

The way in which we clothe and arm ourselves for our daily routines takes on many guises. From an early age we are dressed up in various school uniforms and team strips. We learn that clothing becomes, rather than a personal expression of individuality...

Printing today is one of those things you take for granted. Even my five year old daughter is not in the least bit surprised that she can do some pictures on Photoshop and within minutes hold them in her hands on shiny photo quality paper. Home...

Now I love online shopping, it rocks my world, it is shopping stripped down to its bare bones, right down to its essentials. You don't need to wander around a store looking for something and you dont need to encounter crowds, queues nor over eager sale...

I sit in front of a screen all day and, though it doesnt bother my eyes overly, I dont feel the need to look at one too closely in the evenings. Occasionally I am sent documents to digest and for some reason my neural networks do not translate the writ...