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Showing posts with label Money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Money. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Hands In The Dirt - Notes From a Vegetable Garden: From March 2025 (Extract)

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A few early Spring entries from my 2025 gardening journal, Hands In The Dirt — Notes From a Vegetable Garden. Now available on Amazon. Monda...
Sunday, March 15, 2026

The Writer's Life: You Can Never Truly Retire From Your Passion

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  We live in a world that often treats retirement as the end of productivity. We step away from the world of work, close the door, and are e...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Christmas Comes But Once a Year — But Does It Have to Start in November?

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I nipped into my local ASDA yesterday and was greeted, actually ambushed, by their Grinch-inspired Christmas extravaganza plastered across...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The Truth About Medium, An Interlude - Writing For Pennies - A Poem

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Writing for pennies, I wait and dream, Writing for pennies, is not what it seems. Writing for pennies, just you and me, Writing for pennies,...
Monday, October 20, 2025

The Truth About Medium - Part Six  -  Here's the One About Money

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  This post covers my earnings at Medium for 2024-25.  2024 earnings from the time I joined the Medium Partner Program to the end of Decembe...
Monday, October 6, 2025

The Truth About Medium - Part Five  -  Let's Talk About Money

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One of Medium ’s biggest attractions for writers is the chance to earn money right away. You join the Medium Partner Program ( MPP ), write...
Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Five More Signs of an English Baby Boomer - Things Can Only Get Better

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  1)  A cost of living crisis would happen every few years.  Money was tight, inflation was often high, and austerity was the norm for man...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Money, Money, Money - I'm in the Money. When Money Changes.

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        Money was different when I was a boy. It really was different.  It actually changed when decimalisation was introduced in the UK on ...
Tuesday, June 10, 2025

A Journey Back in Time to a Summer Job That Helped Fund My Holiday.

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When I was a young boy, my mother set me a challenge. It was during the long school holiday one year, and she was hoping to keep me busy and...
Friday, April 25, 2025

A Story About Fame and Legacy

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When I was a young lad, if ever I got a little too ambitious, my mother would say to me. “You need to come back down to earth.” Sometimes, w...
Friday, March 7, 2025

The Day I Met An Investment Advisor

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It was about twenty years ago that I was offered the chance to meet an investment advisor at my local bank. The meeting would be about the...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

The Twelve Posts of Christmas - Day Five: Marshmallow or Book? What Would You Prefer?

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 A while back, someone posted the image below on Twitter X. It speaks for itself. We live in a world where you can buy a book, new, for a fe...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

The Price of Magazines, Just Buy a Book Instead!

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I rarely buy magazines these days, the same with newspapers, the availability of free information on the internet means that I don't rea...
Tuesday, July 18, 2023

Going For a Walk, and the Satisfaction of Picking Blackberries

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I'm fortunate in that there is a local park just across the road from where I live.  It is a country park where you are invited by the l...
Friday, July 14, 2023

That Friday Feeling… A Journey back in time to 1966, 1968 and 1970

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Here are three things that we may never see again. 1) A pay packet with actual money in it (but not much money). So low, that they paid no i...
Tuesday, June 27, 2023

These Boots Are Made For Walking…and The Law of Attraction — Part One

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About a month ago, I was out walking when the thought came to me that I really needed a new pair of walking boots.  My walking boots, more o...