Forget the stereotype of the curtain-twitching pensioner keeping tabs on your comings and goings – a new wave of nosy neighbour is in town – and it’s not to grass on you for for breaking Covid restrictions. We aren’t counting how many people you have visiting in your home, we aren’t checking to see if you are isolating after your holiday in Europe – oh no! We are watching what… View Post

When my daughter Audrey was born in 2013, my life suddenly changed. But while I had anticipated a huge shift in my social life and my sleep pattern, I never predicted that Audrey’s birth would be the catalyst that caused me to invest in the stock market for the first time. You would think that I have been all over the stock market given my career as a financial journalist,… View Post

Every year, I hang up the same advent calendar that my best friend Jamie made me in high school more than 20 years ago. It’s moved with me many times over the years; from where I grew up in a small town in Nova Scotia, Canada to a couple of apartments during university. Eventually, it made its way all the way to England where it hung in several flats around… View Post

Have you ever dreamt about winning the lottery or finding out about a huge inheritance from a long-lost relative that you never knew even existed? Of course you have – we have all daydreamed about what we would do with the cash should a lump sum fall into our lap. But I bet few of us have actually thought about how we could make this money last? While a million… View Post

Ask any parent about how we protect our children and we’ll spout all the ways that we try our best to keep them safe: car seats, vaccinations, teaching road safety, chopping up grapes – the list is endless. But a parent’s responsibility continues even after death, yet research from Scottish Widows reveals that 60% of women in the UK with dependent children have no life cover, leaving their families in a precarious situation… View Post

Every year, I hang up the same advent calendar that one of my best friends made me in high school more than 20 years ago. It’s moved with me many times over the years; from where I grew up in a small town in Nova Scotia, Canada to a couple of apartments during university. Eventually, it made its way all the way to England where it hung in several flats… View Post