// archives

plonkee

This category contains 25 posts

money decisions this week

I got my latest mobile phone bill in the post. I made 157 minutes of calls, 12 text messages and I downloaded 1.8MB of data. The whole thing cost me £63.
Thats a lot of money, especially as I only used 40 of my inclusive minutes. I’ve been forgetting that the inclusive minutes are only for off-peak any [...]

plonkee bought a house

Well, after a few short panics I’m the very proud owner of a tiny little two bedroom terraced house.
The panics were caused by my solicitor’s assistant who didn’t notice that the money had transferred overnight to them to pay for the property. She then phoned me three times and left urgent messages for me at [...]

the hidden costs of being a leftie

You probably don’t know it, but I’m a leftie. I’m very proud of my left-handedness and, of course, grateful not to live in an age where I would haave my hand tied behind my back in an effort to make me write ‘normally’. However, being left-handed has its disadvantages, people feel that they can comment [...]

NETWORK
Proud member of the