Icesave… angry, frustrated and upset…
IMPORTANT UPDATE. This blog is now out of date…. The are your savings safe guide, has a special section, updated three times a day on all the issues impacting Icelandic bank custsomers. All Updates: All latest info in the full Icesave, Kaupthing, Heritable section _________________________________________________ The site is burning with confused Icesave savers today, rightly worried about...
X-factor: who pays for the calls?
Just watched the Sunday night edition of X-factor. In it, whether the acts get through or not, they call home on (what looks like) their mobiles with the loudspeaker on so we can hear their families’ reaction. Yet this is done in the Carribean, Canne, Dublin, St Tropez…. so it’s all roaming calls, and I doubt they’ve...
The UK’s only Bradford & Bingley Branch: Kensington High Street
It’s the first chance I’ve had to blog this. Last Tue, I nipped out of MSE Towers, which is in Shepherds Bush (West London) on weekly e-mail day to do a quick interview for the ITN evening news on Bradford & Bingley. As telly requires this to be near a branch, and the nearest was on Kensington...
Thank you to the nice lady!
My days at the moment are frantic. At one point I got off a train at 4pm having not had lunch, needed money, and was late for a meeting. Heading to the cash machine, papers everywhere, I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned round and a lady with blonde hair in a trouser suit was...
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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...
