My wife is a Robo-shopper, it’s official. Her strategy – which I wholeheartedly approve – is if we need furniture, to go to the store to see it but order from the same company’s website, so we can return it if we don’t like it. While there may sometimes be a price advantage or online [...]
My wife is a Robo-shopper, it’s official. Her strategy – which I wholeheartedly approve – is if we need furniture, to go to the store to see it but order it online, so we can return it if we don’t like it. While there may sometimes be a price advantage or online code to use [...]
My latest graph based obsession is fuel economy. After doing a film for Watchdog on it a few months ago (based on the cheap petrol guide), I wanted to see if I could further drive down my costs with a simple challenge: how far can I go on a tank? This isn’t my first foray [...]
It wasn’t that surprising, I’d reached across the table to the unknown woman sitting opposite me at the coffee bar, and handed her a small ripped off piece of paper I’d written something on. She started to look slightly askance – and only then did I realise what it looked like, pulled myself up and [...]
I’ve reached page 1006, finished the story and closed the book. I’m left with that slight feeling of loss I always get at the end of a long novel I’ve been engrossed in. My top ten summer reads list from earlier in the year’s a mix of historic novels and science fantasy, so imagine my [...]
I’ve reached page 1006, finished the story and closed the book. I’m left with that slight feeling of loss I always get at the end of a long novel I’ve been engrossed in. My top ten summer reads list from earlier in the year’s a mix of historic novels and science fantasy, so imagine my [...]
Is this a male/female divide issue? I was having this discussion the other day with friends, and while the men saw it as the most natural thing in the world, the women thought it abhorrent. I suggested to Mrs MSE that we place a few of our easy to pick-up and put down books in [...]
When do double points become single points? The ‘temporary’ increase in Tesco reward points so customers earn double the prior amount was introduced in August 2009, so when will the ‘double’ novelty wear off? Stop to think about it and it’s sheer marketing genius. I’m not knocking the scheme; people certainly get more points per [...]
Compulsory personal finance education in schools was days away last year, then in the pre-election “wash-up” it got scuppered as a by-product of the parties’ disagreement on sex-ed. Now it’s time to re-kick-start it and, with the News of the World’s help, I hope we did a bit of that yesterday. This campaign needs to [...]
Filming for Watchdog yesterday, we discussed using this word in what we were doing, but I was resolutely against it as I thought most people didn’t know what it meant. So to prove it we did a couple of experiments, the result being not only did people not know, but they actually thought it was [...]
