I felt the news that compulsory financial education’s been shelved drop in my stomach. It’s a totally wasted opportunity and yesterday was a depressing day because of it. I’m currently mulling what to do to keep it on the agenda, maybe a petition, we’ll see… Yet at least a little bit of humour came out of it....

On Saturday night, Mrs MSE had bought us tickets to Legally Blonde in London’s West End. A perfect combination as she loves musicals and I’m a Sheridan Smith fan (who doesn’t love Two pints of lager and a packet of crisps?)… Update May 2010.   Thank you to the legally blond staff Mrs MSE has now heard back...

Scrabble makers Mattel are changing the rules of the game to allow names of celebrities and places to be put on the scrabble board, in a bid to make it more attractive to a new generation (see Telegraph article) What nonsense. Who decides what a celebrity is? What’s to stop me saying I know of a guy...

It’s gone noon now, so April fools’ is officially over. It’s been serious fun designing one for MSE, and as so many follow the info here, being careful not to risk misleading anyone… Loo-paper recycling… To think of an idea originally, in a mini- brain storm, I asked if anyone could think of a new form of...