Days of leaves and loss
Everyone has their favourite season. Some live for the long, sultry days and balmy evenings of Summer. Others enjoy the chilled noses, open fires and hibernation of Winter. Still other revel in Spring, the promise of new life, the sense of nature stretching out and walking up in the gentle sun and showers. Personally, I…
A Perfect Day: What I aspire to after Financial Independence
‘Just a perfect day Problems all left alone Weekenders on our own It’s such fun’ Lou Reed, Perfect Day Lou Reed’s 1972 masterpiece sprung to mind when I saw Saving Ninja’s thought experiment this month. A perfect day. He asked: “What do you need to achieve real, true happiness? What are you aspiring to?” Big…
April 2019 update: The one that’s all over the frickin’ place
Hello everyone and a belated Happy Easter to you all. Did you miss me? What do you mean that you didn’t notice I was gone? Ouch. As you may have deduced from my last post I’ve been on holiday this month. It was brilliant, but I didn’t forget about you lovely people. I had three…
When I grow up: My hopes and fears when I achieve financial independence
It was the morning of Friday the 24th of June 2016. I can place it precisely as it was the day after the UK had voted to leave the European Union. My emotions were all over the place: Sadness, fear but also something that may have been tendrils of excitement. But I had to put…
March 2019 update: The one I wrote the morning after a stag weekend
Ah Spring. As I write this the clocks have just changed so the days are getting longer. Everywhere blossom and daffodils are exploding into bloom. The sun is shining, and Easter is just round the corner. Frankly you can’t turn around without the sap rising somewhere. And, in the middle of all of this, I’m…
“I always thought he was poor.” How shame made me waste money for years (and how I recovered)
Shame is powerful. Of all the emotions I think it’s the least rational. Like so many emotions it can only affect you if you allow it to…but it is so easy to feel embarrassed. Often this is just a fleeting feeling By the next day you’ve forgotten all about it. At other times it becomes…
February 2019 update: Emerging from hibernation and some swords
February goes by fast doesn’t it? I feel like it’s only been a few days since I was doing my January update. I like February though. The days are starting to stretch out and get warmer. In fact it turns out that we had the warmest February day since records began in the 1600s. Crumbs.…
January 2019 update: Did I undersell my goals?
I’m not one of those people that hates January. For a lot of folks it’s the toughest month of the year. I entirely get that. Heck, my wife totally feels like that. Christmas has gone but the credit card bills have to be paid. The weather’s cold, wet, and generally pretty awful. Everyone seems to…
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