Property Porn Experts: where are you?
Where are all the TV property pundits these days? House prices are plummeting. Whether it’s a heavy correction or a crash depends on perspective, yet either way the bubble is over. While most newspapers report this as a nightmare with shock “HOUSE PRICE CRASH 10% IN A YEAR” type headlines, I don’t believe it’s a wholesale negative....
Mocked on Mock The Week
MoneySaving’s getting mainstream … Fresh from being a weakest link question, thanks to the eagle eyed forumites (see mention in Mock The Week ) who spotted comedian Michael McIntyre taking the mick on the BBC2 show. To use forum speak, I ROTFL with it. It’s a brilliant clip, you can watch it here: BBC Iplayer (watch from...
Tool to find how big websites really are…
Many wee websites claim 100,000s hits, even though a hit means nothing. If you really want to see how big a website is, the rather clever Google Trends will now allow you to map the popularity of sites against each other.
Trains: What’s a fair fare system?
This week there are more ineffective attempts to tinker with the train fare system. The entire price network is a mass of anomalies and bad logic; what a mess. Of course, if you’re prepared to do the work you can beat it (see the Cheap Train Tickets guide), yet sadly the lack of coherent structure means this...
All boobs and toes… a modern holiday postcard
I’ve got to share a moment from my summer hols in Southern Spain last week. The MSF and I, along with a couple of friends were walking back along the beach. In front was a bleached blond, seriously tanned girl with large boobs, a tiny bikini, red leggings on her left leg and green on the right....
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Update 17 July 2017: We tend to think since Brexit that the pound’s weaker than it has been for decades. While somewhat true against the dollar, against the euro it’s only a tad worse now than when I first wrote this in 2014. The logic of this blog stands just as strongly now. On the Spanish-English website...
