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These were Endowment Mortgages. The only guarantees were that whoever sold them, be it bank, broker, financial adviser, received a very...

When my parents bought their first house in the late 1950s, mortgages were difficult to get. In those days you could get them from the...

Hard times for us were when interest rates reached 15%. Many were in the same boat, and I always believe in remembering that This Too...

I love my Prezerve case. I wish I'd bought another as mine is groaning with all the silver I've bought over the years (and keep meaning...

Snapped up those tulips. I've had them before and they really are amazing but you have to grow them through a support or they flop over...

Plants2Gardens Tulip Gudoshnik 30x 12+ Size Bulbs Big Deal Price £19.92 + post http://www.qvcuk.com/qvc.product.740716.html

Chomping Charlie, the Human Hoover, strikes again. I remember him scoffing chocolates on programmes some years ago. It was not a...

I had a load of the old B&W things including lovely beaded bags and a beaded poncho type thing. I fell on hard times a while back and...

I think LV73 and me have the same sort of husbands/partners. Their eagle eyes will spot that we are sneaking in things we already have...

I'm quite tempted by that too! I caved in and bought another set of the spinners...delivered to work address to be sneaked in!

Ruth doesn’t exactly have a trenchcoat-ready figure herself! Bet she doesn’t fasten it. I’m a different shape, slim but short, another...

My trench coat has a belt with a buckle on. Can’t stand the tie belts as I look like a sack potatoes ptied up with string.

I love them. I just put them on and they feel like slippers from day one. CC

Mr CC should grin and accept it. Nobody wants to be nagged especially if the kettle is calling the pot black.

Just caught some of the women's weightlifting in the Olympics. The commentator said 'she made us sweat in the snatch' 🤣🤣🤣. I'm sure...