i had to renew the car insurance the other day and, in spite of not having made any claims [for the ninth year in a row] i noticed my insurers had put the premium up by £17 on last year’s.
my previous insurers used to do this as well: every year they’d send me [...]

i’m glad to see that the government is finally doing its bit for the environment by using yesterday’s budget to add a few pence onto the price of a litre of diesel and also by raising the road tax on 4×4s to £400 a year!  i fully realise that using my beat-up fourteen year old [...]

as the kind of guy who’s never able to resist the temptation to walk past a skip, without having a wee hoke round in it, on the off-chance of finding something that “might come in handy”,   i’ve long been a bit of an ebay addict; the joy of making a few quid by flogging [...]