Lost in Words

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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...

        Money was different when I was a boy. It really was different.  It actually changed when decimalisation was introduced in the UK on ...

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...

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...

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...

 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...

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

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...

Here are three things that we may never see again. 1) A pay packet with actual money in it (but not much money). 2) England winning the Worl...

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