Monthly Archives: April 2012

No confidence in Osborne and Cameron

Posted on April 30, 2012 by finance guy

Try as I may, I simply cannot stir up any enthusiasm for, or confidence in Messrs Osborne & Cameron because, like so many others in the UK I just don’t believe they are in touch with what the public here … Continue reading →

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Muslims to have sex with their dead wives

Posted on April 28, 2012 by finance guy

We never knowingly set out to upset any particular group, sect or religion, and after all, this is a finance website and not a current affairs site, but a recent law due to be passed in the Islamist country of Egypt makes … Continue reading →

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Wine and finance really do mix

Posted on April 27, 2012 by finance guy

Regular readers of our blog may have already noticed that we have started a wine section on our website, and one or two people have asked whether wine and mortgages, remortgage are suitable on one site. Well we most certainly … Continue reading →

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Use Website promotion to help your rankings

Posted on April 26, 2012 by finance guy

You would never believe the amount of intelligent people (we thought), both in business and out who have approached our website promotion department over the years and who have accepted a quote after being told that there was no quick … Continue reading →

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Recession to hit mortgages again?

Posted on April 26, 2012 by finance guy

It’s so hard for us ordinary mortals to judge the actual time a country gets into a recession, but just at the time when we thought we were climbing out of the first one we are told by the media … Continue reading →

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Australian vintage wine goes AWOL

Posted on April 25, 2012 by finance guy

A couple of weekends ago I was mooching through the cellar just tidying up this and that when I noticed that my stock of Australian vintage wine was looking a tad depleted, and not by me I might add. It … Continue reading →

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Danny Alexander to cut £16 billion from ministers’ budgets

Posted on April 25, 2012 by finance guy

I don’t know what you think, but I have often wondered, “Why is it always us?” No, I’m not feeling sorry for myself but I am feeling sorry for this once great little country of England in which I was … Continue reading →

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Ferry to France

Posted on April 22, 2012 by finance guy

Is the £ pound rising against the € Euro or is the € Euro just having a bad time at present? Well if you are taking a ferry to France sometime this summer it hardly matters which, but either way … Continue reading →

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Wine for investment

Posted on April 20, 2012 by finance guy

Some things we get right, and some times we get things abysmally wrong, but on this occasion we believe that we are completely correct in setting up a section on this site for both vintage wines and wine for investment. … Continue reading →

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Remortgaging is easier than was previously thought

Posted on April 17, 2012 by finance guy

Well if you read any of the financial papers, and especially the bits to do with foreign exchange and the Pound/Euro comedy you may have noticed that your traveller’s pound was worth a mighty €1.19 at close of play yesterday. That … Continue reading →

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