Consumer Issues

Hair Dye

December 1, 2008

I do not know any men that dye their hair.  At least, I do not think I do.  I have always assumed that if a man dyes his hair, he would be quite good at it, seeing as hiding the fact that you are dying your hair is sort of the point of doing it [...]

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Beating inflation

October 16, 2008

Consumer inflation in the UK has reached 5.2%. This is just another sign that the country is going to the dogs.  With the credit crunch biting, the housing market stagnant at best, and the price of every day commodities rising faster than at any point in the last in the last ten years, something must [...]

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Petrol prices

October 10, 2008

I am in the fortunate position that I do not have to drive anywhere near as often as I used to.  Getting through a couple of tanks of petrol a week was not unheard of in my last role. Therefore I have not been hit particularly hard by the steady rise in the price of [...]

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Another retraction

October 4, 2008

I rarely make mistakes. But when I do, I do tend to make an awful lot of them at once, and all about the same thing. After posting a retraction just a few short days ago after mistakenly thinking I had eaten at Giraffe, it now turns out that I did not eat at The [...]

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A Retraction

September 30, 2008

I rarely make mistakes. When I do, I tend to deal with them like a mature adult and ignore them in the hope that they will go away.  But sometimes, as in this case, someone will pop into my comments box and point out my mistake to the world. I am not an unreasonable man, [...]

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Breakfast at Terminal 1

September 26, 2008

Having finally made my way airside, I had a small amount of time to get something to eat before boarding my flight.  It was still early, so I fancied a light breakfast. I took a seat in The Tin Goose pub /  Restaurant and perused the breakfast menu.  It was full of overpriced variations of [...]

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Super-fast on-line bag check

September 25, 2008

In this world of ever increasing efficiencies, time saving innovations, and stuff that goes quicker, it is not unusual for me to be impressed by something designed to make my life easier. Which is why I was pleased to receive an email from the airline BMI just 24 hours before a recent trip to Edinburgh. [...]

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Shortchanged

September 21, 2008

As Uncles go, I am a pretty damn good one. I recently visited my young nephews, who are 4 and 2 respectively.  This is good news because they are reaching that age where they finally understand the concept of having their affections bought and paid for.  In keeping with my careful cultivation of the title, [...]

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Drinks

September 19, 2008

One of the problems about organising a holiday for twenty-four adult males, is that they regress into their childhood selves and come to you with issues they would normally resolve themselves quite easily. As a result, my first few drinks of each evening tended to be of the soft variety in order to take in [...]

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The coach driver

September 18, 2008

With twenty four in our group, the only sensible option for transporting us to the golf club each day, was a coach.  Which we duly hired in advance, like any sensible northern European. Now, the thing about Spanish coach companies is that they tend to supply coaches driven by Spanish drivers.  After picking us up [...]

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