Some people have an eye for a bargain. Kathryn is one of those people; she can see the one item in Primark that will go with a bunch of stuff she already owns, and the whole outfit ends up being way more than the sum of its parts. Whereas I am the sort of personRead More
The Guardian website recently published an interesting piece on benefit fraud, with shocking statistics to match. Not shocking in the way you might imagine. Startlingly, these stats highlighted how few people are defrauding the system, rather than trying to fly the banner for the train of thought that says everyone who claims benefits is “bad”Read More
Dear TK Maxx, you are awesome. OK, perhaps occasionally awesome is a better description, but my last haul there was somewhat epic by my standards. Having met a friend for lunch in a town about thirty miles from where I live, I decided to fill the rest of my time until the next train by havingRead More
Good grief, look at these beauties. Aren’t they rather stunning? I know that a website can use good lighting to sell virtually anything but these look The Business. These leather ankle boots are from a brand called A+EM London (nope, never heard of them either) and were spotted during a routine inspection of the RedRead More
If you buy, or spend time with someone who buys, any magazine aimed mainly at men, you will most probably have seen the ‘Save the Male’ campaign being run by CALM. Even if you haven’t registered the message, you may have seen the eye-catching image of a man’s body, mostly submerged in the sea. IRead More