Five Reasons Not to Buy a Range Rover Evoque
Range Rover Evoque is a thing of beauty! Let’s just say that this morning, when I saw ours just delivered in our drive, I couldn’t even make a sound – I just gazed at it with the awe reserved for the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles…
Eat for Less: My Mother’s Chicken Fricassee
When I was a little girl I didn’t call this chicken fricassee; this was my mother and her friends when they shared cooking tips. I called it ‘white chicken’. My son used to call it ‘baby stew’; now he simply tells me that he eats it not because he enjoys…
Eat for Less: This is How to Cook a Perfect Spanish Omelette
Last night, our Mexican visitor made Spanish omelette for us. Or to use its proper name ‘tortilla de patatas’. “Maria, I can’t really cook. I like cleaning more.” This is what she told me when I said that we like people staying in our house to be part of the…
12 Things I Would Do if I Have No Money (and entering a beauty contest is certainly not one of them)
Let me make this clear from the outset: I really mean if I have no money at all. Because some people clearly have very little idea about having no money. You want an example? Well, you can have a look at this article on Lifehack.org; a site otherwise I have…
The UK Tax System at a Glance: tax is no longer a puzzle
Tax is the bane of my life. Understanding the UK tax system is something else. And I suppose that I’m not alone in this. But I have always had a problem working out things like: How much tax I have to pay on my side income? What kind of spending…
10 Personal Finance Myths Experts Like to Tell
Experts like to tell personal finance myths. It isn’t that they try to deceive you on purpose; it is just that the nature of expertise is to offer tried and tested advice. This means that in times of change when the world no longer fits in our ‘tried and…
Eat for Less: Mouth Watering Walnut Topped Biscuits
It is Saturday and I’m feeling a bit down. Having had very bad backache for close to two weeks now doesn’t help. Judging by my reaction to pain now, I suspect I’ll be one of these grumpy, self-obsessed old women one day. Except if I have the sense to feel…
Eat for Less: Oven Baked Cabbage and Feta Cheese
I promised, didn’t I? I promised that every week I’ll try one recipe from my mum’s old cook book and tell you about it. Not least because most of these recipes are really examples of our ‘eat for less’ philosophy. They are: Inexpensive; Delicious; Nutritious; and (mostly) Fast to prepare….
Eat for Less: Finger Licking Cake with Meringue Topping You Can Prepare in Fifteen Minutes
Do you remember my mum’s old cook book? Well, I’ve decided that I’ll try one recipe from it every week. And will tell you about it. You see, I reckon that there isn’t more frugal than people in less wealthy countries (and Bulgaria after WWII fits the bill perfectly). Tasty…
This is Why I Still Love Nutmeg Enough to Stay with Them
Yesterday I opened my Nutmeg account (for my readers in the US, Nutmeg is the UK ‘sister’ of Betterment) and the first thing I saw was a message saying: I’m in for the long run: history tells us that savvy investors stand firm when markets are choppy! The next thing…
4 Simple Ways to Stop Being Financial Failure: it is in your monthly cash flow
Do you know what the only number I need to be able to tell you whether you are financial failure or prosperity superstar is? No, I don’t want to know how much you earn: I know too many people who earn over £100,000 and have twice as much consumer debt….
Eat for Less: Try Oven Baked Tuna This Weekend
Vegetarian our household is not; and it’s very unlikely to be. This dish – oven baked tuna is a suffered compromise between a protein eating enthusiastic teen (my youngest son) and a reformed health eating obsessive (me). I used to be vegetarian. I was strict with it for about five…