From The Guardian:
Rising housing costs forced more than a million householders to use a credit card to pay their mortgage or rent over the past 12 months, a poll for the housing charity Shelter reveals today.
It says a growing number of young people are turning to expensive sources of credit to hang on to a [...]

or maybe a child…
Dear reader, I give you the new Apple iMac.
Brushed metal and glass enclosure wrapped around some serious hardware.
Come to papa…

It’s my birthday today. I’ve had some lovely presents, but the very best present of all and the thing that absolutely made my day was seeing my little girl pass her swimming test and win her first distance badge!
A very, very proud Daddy indeed.

I was very spoilt this Fathers Day and one of my many lovely presents was a copy of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band an album I’ve always loved but for some reason never bought.
I grew up with Sgt Pepper’s, my Dad had an amazing French import copy on fluorescent orange vinyl - appropriately psychedelic [...]

In case you hadn’t realised my previous post Just when I thought I was over you was an ode to the iPhone.
Signals vs. Noise has a very interesting post in which they say that one of the iPhone adverts is “perfect advertising”.
You know what they could be right.
I was very definitely over the iPhone [...]

We all had one… that one toy you really wanted as a kid but for one reason or another sadly never received.
You may have carried feelings of injustice and longing ever since or you may have been lucky enough to find the missing toy as an adult.
For me that toy was the Evel Knieval stunt [...]