George Bernard Shaw said that youth is wasted on the young. Being young can bring its own challenges however. You may have just received your A-level results and are planning to start university this autumn. If so you might be faced with the issue of where to live. If you’re going to be moving […]
Anything which can go wrong will go wrong – and at the worst possible time! (Murphy’s Law). Cars, washing machines, central heating… you name it. Breaking down just when you need them most and costing an arm and a leg to fix or replace. But how are you going to pay for it? That’s when […]
ARE YOU OF WORKING AGE AND IN NEED OF HELP WITH DAILY LIVING OR MOBILITY? YOU MAY BE ELIGIBLE FOR PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT (PIP) PIP is a new benefit for people who need help participating in everyday life or who find it difficult to get around. It replaces Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people of […]
At the time Maureen Lipman appeared in TV adverts in the late 1980s encouraging us to use the telephone to stay in touch a ringing telephone often created a sense of excitement as to who the caller might be As Virginia Woolf had observed much earlier The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations […]
Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going. (Paul Theroux). As the holiday season reaches its peak, many people, be they tourists or travellers will be going abroad for their annual vacation. While technology in general and the Internet in particular have made the world smaller, accessing the Internet via mobile […]
In days gone by, if you were buying something good practice was based on expressions like not looking a gift horse in the mouth or taking care to avoid buying a pig in a poke. Presumably dissatisfaction with goods or services provided has been around since stone age cave dwellers traded flint and obsidian (cooled […]
Do people who mourn the passing of bank managers like Mr Mainwaring (who presided over a branch in Walmington on Sea when he wasn’t commanding the local Dad’s Army platoon) have a point? Although he was pompous.he understood the idea of duty and he applied it to looking after other people’s money as well as […]
The future is the indefinite time after the present. It is reasonable to assume that its arrival is inevitable because of the existence of time and the laws of physics. Planning for it is therefore important because the future is unavoidable and difficult because no one can say with absolute certainty what the future will […]
Language is (potentially) powerful. Words can motivate and mystify, inspire and intimidate. It was said of Churchill that he mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. So are attempts to change attitudes by suggesting different ways of saying things worthwhile? Take disability. The way society has typically defined disability in the past […]
We are asking for your help to try and estimate how many of us who cannot or will not use the Internet. Here’s why. Some of us use the Internet a lot – for buying goods and services, communicating with friends, downloading games, films and music and even meeting potential life partners. Others manage to […]