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Help! The House Is On Fire…

on 28/10/2011
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After a cheery week (not) when I’ve written more than once about the perils and pitfalls of UK residential property investing and ownership, here’s something which is hopefully a bit more cheery for a Friday.   Via Twitter, the fount of all knowledge, I found this fabulous, arty website which the photographers amongst you will really appreciate. Its called The Burning House and if you visit, you’ll see it’s self-explanatory. What would you take with you if the house were on fire and can you take a cool photo of it and get it featured on their website? I had a go and [...]

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Free Advice: How To Keep A (Mortgaged) Roof Over Your Head

on 27/10/2011
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I heard this story a few weeks ago and was somewhat taken aback, I must confess. I was shocked at my own reaction both for and against its content and intention. The state-owned bank charged with recovering the Government’s £48billion investment in Bradford & Bingley and Northern Rock has identified around 30,000 borrowers who could get into financial difficulty when interest rates rise from current historic lows of 0.5%. This organisation known as UK Asset Resolution (UKAR) will telephone around 2,000 customers a week over the coming months and advise them on how best to manage their finances in order that [...]

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What Would You Do With £101m From The Lottery?

on 24/10/2011
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I was very excited about the lottery in the early days. But it’s over a decade since I’ve done it seriously. I do it vicariously now, watching others in syndicates, receiving tickets sometimes in birthday cards and so on. A bit of fun. And one of my friends helped me see it as a weekly charitable donation and that’s a wonderfully abundant take on it. I keep meaning to get back to doing it online for the charity angle. I am hoping to set up my own Entrepreneurs’ Prize Draw in 2012 or sooner, going to a meeting about that [...]

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The Sweetness of Doing Nothing

on 22/10/2011 2 Comments
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I come from a long line of addictive personalities. Alongside our drug of choice, we Morgans are also workaholics. It follows. So I remember being surprised at how well my father took to retirement when he stopped work at 65. Of course, he didn’t do completely nothing. Just almost nothing. But I remember too his own surprise and delight that doing nothing was so easy and so much fun. Such a shame then that he only got to enjoy it for four years, dying at 69. Then my brother decided to give up work about seven or eight years ago when he [...]

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Like A Leaky Bucket

on 19/10/2011 2 Comments
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I wonder if you saw Jo Brand’s programme on the BBC called For Crying Out Loud? Jo doesn’t cry much, if at all. And Jo thinks there’s far too much crying in the public arena these days and she’s right. As you would expect with Jo, this is a funny exploration of her childhood and she goes on to consult historians, psychologists, biochemists and Moorfields Eye Hospital while presenting her opinions and her findings. Unlike Jo, I cry like a leaky bucket. At the drop of a hat. With the tiniest of encouragement. And often at a bizarre range of [...]

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Anything For A Peaceful Life

on 14/10/2011

Today I was up before TUT, the daily message from the Universe which arrives every day at just after 8.15. During my gap year, I haven’t been up in the dark for a while, perhaps at all. So it was a delightful surprise to see the moon, my favourite thing of all time, hanging in the sky above beautiful downtown Streatham Hill, almost full it was too. So what am I doing up so early today? Waiting for Russell the handyman to fix my curtain pole which has been hanging off the living room wall and to fix the dripping [...]

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Of Mitsy, Mice and Moths

on 13/10/2011
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My little pussycat is Mitsy, inherited from Dan the Computer Man. She’s been with me since 2008 and was with Dan for about a year before that so that makes her four years old. She’s lovely and there is one impending problem: what to do with her when I go to live abroad. Let me know if, after reading the following, you would still want to offer her a home? Am in two minds about chipping her, getting her a passport and taking her to the tax-free tropics with me. You can see she’s a beauty, can’t you? Mitsy’s timid. And [...]

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