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18 July 2026 ISAs are getting more complicated - here’s what is changing. The government wants to encourage retail investors to invest in growth rather than just save cash 1. So it is changing some of the rules. Cash ISA limit reduced to...
I caught Nelly sleeping comfortably on the couch when I came in from reading on the balcony for a moment.
I posted this earlier this morning on Mastodon In the middle of the night I have an idea for an over due blog post: let me now cogitate and procrastinate for a while. Stew on it until the idea is overly cooked, inedible and abandoned. Or...
Today’s leg of the trip takes us from Forrest City, Arkansas, to Elk City, Oklahoma. Short jaunt.
Three notes from book after using my random note workflow. You've got lots of ideas, if you spend time revisiting them. Reward and Flow In Designing Your Life the author talks about a rewarding career being full of flow states. As many...
For those new to CabbieBlog or readers who are slightly forgetful, on Saturdays I’m republishing posts, many going back over a decade. Some will still be very relevant while others have become dated over time. Just think of this post as...
Spoiler alert: The Odyssey is really just a nearly 3-hour condom commercial.
In the UK as elsewhere, we’ve recently seen the far right orchestrate a campaign against refugees, presenting them as dangerous to women and girls and the vanguard of an invasion aimed at destroying Britain. Asylum seekers, forced by the...
I hit seven decades of living on this planet today. That’s 15 years beyond the shelf life of males on my father’s side of the family, so feeling pretty good about the accomplishment. Celebrating with grandkids and family this weekend...
A while ago, I built Lingua (project post), a small app for practising a language through conversations and everyday scenarios. It corrects your mistakes, explains them, and lets you translate, simplify, or listen to sentences when you...
Finally, the park living up to its name. at Park am Gleisdreieck in Berlin, Germany Filed under scraps with tags: Berlin Reply by email Add an emoji reaction: 🥕 🚲 🐾 💜
It's green black walnut season. I don't know how people figured out you could use unripe walnuts in cooking, but I'm glad they did, and after you try making my fermented green walnut molasses I think you will be too, even if you don't...
New in the hopper this morning is this offering from Edinburgh-based roasters Carter. I didn’t get the ‘forest fruit cake’ in my first cup (as filter), but it was clean and pleasant. Reply by email
One of the OGs of Bear circulated a question that got me thinking about time travel. What have been examples of great cities? Why did they achieve greatness? How did they contribute to the world? Here’s my list of globally dominant...
A micropoem If pieces of youbroke pieces of me, and you failed toacknowledge my pain,I will be a different MEto YOU; one you’ve never seenAnd will NEVER seeagain.