At the risk of sounding like the enthusiastic bloke in a hat on The Fast Show, isn’t technology brilliant? It’s amazing how many gadgets and gizmos we have at our fingertips these days that make our lives so much easier. To be sadly honest, I’d be stumped without most of the white goods we have in …
Month: February 2015
Something has been bothering me for a while. Since last summer, in fact, so it’s high time I got it off my chest. I’m fed up of the extra – and not wholly necessary – ways that Dylan’s school seems to find to get extra money out of us. Before I launch into this rant about the …
Since Labour announced their plans to increase paternity leave and pay a week ago, much has been written about the role of dads. Not all of it has been constructive and, in fact, there has been the odd unwarranted attack on dads, seemingly because there are some people out there who object to the prospect …
Saving – or at least trying to – is something that’s important to all families. As we all know, though, it isn’t easy at times. NatWest got in touch recently to tell me about its mission to make saving fairer – including offering the same savings rates to new and existing customers, as well as providing savings accounts with …
Regular readers of this blog will know that I’m partial to a little bit of a rant now and then, so what follows is uncomfortable new ground for me… I’m writing about something I’m actually really pleased about! I’m referring, of course, to Labour’s proposal to double paternity leave and increase paternity pay. It’s a …