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Spy photos, air pollution & Tomorrow’s World
The heating season is fast approaching. What is the ‘heating season’ and what happens to your energy bills?
Low Income Diary 3: Drink at home or pub – or neither?
Low Income Diary 2: The real cost of having a shower – can you afford it?
Seeing an ad for custard creams in a magazine from 1899 reminded me of a school friend who lived in a ‘Boys Home’…
Low Income Diary 1: Washing clothes is expensive. How can you save money?
Gas fires: turn off the pilot light – it may be using more gas than you think
Even after retirement the dread of going into work on Monday still haunts me; why is working life often so unpleasant?
Why is New Year’s Eve so special?
Treat your home like a Listed Building – Laser-clean!
Being a pensioner and a private tenant almost certainly means poverty. Why is that?