
We are the champions my friends….
The MoneySaving Team descended en masse to the Liverpool Victoria-organised journalists’ Table Football Tournament last night. The party was a wee bit of fun pre-World Cup. Well fun for most that is…. as you may guess I’m quite ridiculously competitive – and table football is a game I like. I used to play in my hall of...

MoneySaving Old Style The Book: what to put on the cover?
My plan for this weekend was to read the first draft of MoneySaving Old Style, the book. It’s been written based on posts in the Old-Style Chat Forum, and compiled by Sue Haywood a great journalist on a brief we worked out. For those who don’t know, the Old Style board is much more ‘thrift’ than ‘system-playing...

All the fun of a preacher man! The most bizarre day’s filming ever
What a bizarre sunny Saturday afternoon spent in St. Anne’s Square, Manchester preaching to a massed crowd about bank charges. I was there for last-ditch filming for the Tonight with Trevor I’m presenting tonight on reclaiming unfair bank charges. Booted from the Trafford centre by the banks? The problems started with attempting to put up a demonstration...

Does anyone ever think Martyn Lewis is me?
I was being picked up to go film a Tonight with Trevor MacDonald and, as happens quite regularly, the driver said “thought it was for Martyn Lewis”. Of course in speech the difference between the ‘y’ and the ‘i’ isn’t apparent. As I always do, I replied “it is for Martin Lewis”. To which (and I wonder...
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