I had the great pleasure in receiving an unsolicited call from a UK company marketing their 'free solar panel' deal. Since I'm interested in solar PV I let the salesperson deliver their pitch, and then asked a number of questions. What follows ... (more)
Share Your Seeds The BBC's Gardeners Question Time raised a dual issue common to virtually all small-scale gardeners: how to economise on seed-buying, and what to do with your leftover seeds. Some gardening websites feature 'seed swap ... (more)
Think Environmental: The Green Options Install a wind turbine? Do more recycling? Walk everywhere? Fly less? What's best? It'd be hard to come up with a complete and 100% accurate ranking of the value of each possible action. ... (more)
The Truly Comparative ADSL Guide The best broadband providers are hard to find, as everyone offers a vague 'up to x Mbits service'. Fortunately, thinkbroadband.com gives us the ability to rate our ISP according to speed, reliability and ... (more)
iRail - An index of all railway and model railway related websites in the UK and Ireland. (more)
If you want to find out your credit score, you generally have to pay for it. Information about you, held by companies such as Experian, is used to determine whether you are a risky person to lend money to. It's clearly in your interests to ... (more)
The Carphone Warehouse isn't just a mobile phone retailer; it also offers a landline service, called TalkTalk, through the BT network. It has a service called Talk3 International with which it is now bundling free broadband at the full rate ... (more)
The news is that Carphone Warehouse is set to announce a free broadband service for its Talk Talk (landline) subscribers. This announcement is due on Tuesday, but the company is only saying that the announcement is about its broadband package ... (more)
On freelanceadvisor.co.uk: The definitive freelancer accountancy glossary and What is a sole trader?. The HMRC website offers lots of assistance. Join in a couple of HMRC self-employed webinars such as "Self-employment – what you need ... (more)
As a contractor or freelancer you are always at risk of being called to jury service, your contract being broken or being investigated by the HMRC. PCG is here to provide support in all these instances and many more too. Member Benefits ... (more)
The Swindells Name We've been doing a bit of research into our family trees, and are sharing our findings. Here is what we have discovered about the Swindells family name. (more)