It’s been a few weeks since my last lockdown diary entry so I thought it about prudent to give you an update – I wouldn’t want to deprive you of such an excellent record of our time. Since we last spoke, it hasn’t exactly been dull, has it? Partial lifting of lockdown, Dominic Cummings and […]
May 2020 Income Report
Proving that life is about balance, just as lockdown is lifted, you get a second article in two weeks from me. Yes, yes, yes, I know it says Chris, but he does all the complicated stuff with the tables, graphics and numbers and leaves me (it’s Ben by the way) to do the painting by […]
Prolific: Interesting, varied and profitable
I love a survey. While they can be a little tedious, they are easy money when you would otherwise be watching videos on youtube. I’ve been using a couple of platforms for a while; I’ve also been “removed” from a couple of platforms as they decided I wasn’t sincere in my answers and as a […]
April 2020 Income Report
Summary of result for the month Cryptocurrency (+147.38) Finally Bitcoin went up in value, ending April on a price of over £7,000 per bitcoin. So at long last we recovered some of our losses. Shares (+£29.93) We made £23.39 gain on Ben’s purchase of 265 units of Blackrock Consensus 85 fund. But Chris dipped his […]
3 Groups of People Who are Utterly Unbearable in this Coronavirus Crisis
Times of crisis are supposed to bring us all together. That largely rings true for me in this Coronavirus pandemic. I’ve connected with otherwise-forgotten contacts over Zoom; felt affiliation with others who are finding lockdown challenging; and admired the efforts of our keyworkers in more ways than just the weekly claps that bring our whole […]