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Under Offer – Estate Agents on The Job

I don’t know how many of you have been watching the BBC 2 documentary series about estate agents but if you haven’t, get on iPlayer and watch it, it is great TV with characters that you assume you are going to despise but somehow you can’t help but like. Most of you on will have had some dealing with estate agents in the past but probably not as many as me ...

Does Nostalgia Control Us?

I don’t know if any of you have been watching the Ian Hislop series called Olden Days but if you haven’t, you should, it is a fascinating insight to how us Brits have entrenched in us, a longing for a golden age where things were so much better than they are now. Hislop’s series goes back hundreds of years to times when a writer would publish accounts and ...

The Economic Power of London Homes!

For the last few years, I have been fortunate to have been involved, at least loosely, with the refurbishment of some of the most extravagant homes in London. When I say involved, I mean right near the bottom of the food chain as the supplier of electrical labour to one of my clients who had either the good sense, or good fortune, to move into this market when ...

Miller Puts Basingstoke on the Map

There is an old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity and if this is the case, the folk of my former home town should be grateful for the efforts of fraudster, Conservative MP, Maria Miller, for getting the town of Basingstoke on the national news. Miller: Crook To many people, the news of an MP stealing tax payers money is not nearly as ...

How Personalities Are Built – By Education?

I was having an email conversation with a friend the other day where I said that a school reunion had little meaning to me as I was completely indifferent to five years of my life in an education system that for one reason or another, I didn't respond to. His argument was that our schooling was what shaped us to being what we are now and that we all seem to be ...