Laughton Road

It’s not often my friends are genuinely complimentary about something. So I am taking this with a pinch of salt.
But I had a few friends round for drinks this evening, and, strangely, they were obsessed with my phones. Which is an odd thing to be complimentary about, I think, but there you go.
I’m on BT, [...]

Last night was the spectacular, if peculiar battle between the Minnesota Vikings and the New Orleans Saints. It was enthralling viewing. Last night, I knew that I could deal with the tiredness that would surely follow in order to watch this.
But it didn’t change the fact that, this morning, as I stepped onto my [...]

I’m sitting here watching the American football, which has started wonderfully, but I can’t help but feel a little bit worried about debt. Mostly because I’m starting a post-graduate course on the first of February, and whilst I am very excited about it, the finance part is very scary.
Really, the only way I can [...]

Can you feel it?
If you’re an American football fan, you probably can.
That palpable, brooding feeling.
Yes, there is certainly something special about Championship Sunday. When it rolls around, there is always the same feeling every year: a sort of brooding presence about the day. It’s big, and you can feel it. Today is the day [...]

I have been thinking: with the app store for iPhones and Android devices so thriving, is there anything that there’s not an app for?
Earlier on today, I was fiddling around with my phone. I have one of these smart phone gadgets, with all the fancy-but-generally-pointless applications on them. I have just got a new app, [...]

I’ve been reading up on the news on house prices and the housing market, because one of my friends is selling up and moving down south as soon as possible. The problem, though, is that things aren’t looking particularly good for his move.
He initially spent something like £200,000, I think, when he first bought his [...]

I was reading this piece today, and am suddenly not very surprised that car insurance companies provide such steep quotes for fresh-faced, recently passed drivers.
Who knew that, on average, our young, new drivers had so little experience, so few lessons?
There has been a study undertaken to show that quite a few young drivers feel [...]

There is a piece on the Telegraph website on Manchester United, who are in tremendous amounts of debt. And it got me thinking …when football teams are in as much debt as this, it shows just how far the shadow of the economic downturn reaches: well beyond us to every aspect of society. There are [...]

Earlier on, I was browsing a list of property prices in 2010, and couldn’t help but notice that here, in the property market, things seem as nasty as ever. So much for the change that is supposed to be taking place at this time of year. So much for new resolutions and all the wonder [...]

I’ve just found out that there has been a study done shows that the people who download music illegally, and admit to doing so, are also the ones who spend the most on music. Obviously then, to ban them, and to crack down on them could have a negative effect on the music business – [...]