Having just returned from New York (see NYC biz class for £500 blog) I thought I’d report back on the restaurant tipping system. There, rather sensibly, the receipts give instructions on how much you need to tip… The receipt pre-calulates the suggested tip amount, for example underneath a food and drink total of say $47.30 [...]
Update 27 July 2010. After writing this blog At Cost got in touch and agreed to an interview that we published today. See the full At Cost Energy Interview though do read this first for background. This is a question I’ve been asked a lot, and my simple answer is “I can’t tell you until [...]
I’m writing this blog on my new speech dictation system, and quite deliberately I am not going to correct any mistakes it makes. Sadly my RSI is back, after a good nine or 10 months being completely clear its flared up again so my hand is swollen,there is a not in my right shoulder blade [...]
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Update 16 Mar 06… Read the full George Osborne Interview Transcript
I went to Conservative party headquarters yesterday to interview George Osborne for the News of the World.
You’ll be pleased to hear he was aware of my blog where I asked for people to suggest questions for George Osborne as people in his office [...]
p>Forgive me for blogging about a vernacular unrelated to MoneySaving, but while it may look like a light hearted blog, this is actually a genuine social issue and as I’m not sure it’s been covered elsewhere (and am worried what’ll happen when googling it), I thought I’d blog.
The Background…
In a break between meetings, the [...]
p>I’m writing this blog from my bed, duvet pulled up, temperature of 102, pounding head, weak limbs, cough that’s like a stabbing knife. From memory it’s my first day off sick in the last three years, and it couldn’t have come at a worse time.
Tomorrow morning at 7am the OFT will announce [...]
I was doing a check of Google Trends today, which I do every once in a while. It’s a great free tool as you can plot search terms or web traffic and compare different terms and sites (see my past Kate Nash v Amy Winehouse blog for how to use it).
Yet when I looked [...]
Mrs MSE and I were walking down central London’s Lower Regents Street today and walked past the Marmite store. Yes you read it right – a Marmite shop.
Now who can resist popping in to see it? Certainly not me, so I thought I’d take some snaps for the blog.
Apparently it [...]
My blog earlier this week posited that it’s time to radically rein(deer) back on Christmas gifts (see Is it time to ban Christmas presents?), as it’s become a retail festival. It seems to have struck a cord with many, angered a few and caused one man to compose a poem (see below).
Certainly there’s been a [...]
This blog will also appear in the Time’s T2 magazine on 11 Nov. 2009
It’s time for warm feelings, cotton socks and boundless joy – the festive season is approaching. Great swathes of shoppers will hit the nation’s high streets and e-tailers, gathering nick-nacks to gift to loved ones, friends and colleagues.
Yet I think it’s [...]
