by Dave Porter | 2nd May 2022
Back in 2018, when we were in Málaga, we wandered down to the port one day just to have a look at the ‘Harmony of the Seas’. It’s a cruise ship owned by Royal Caribbean and it’s humongous! At the time it was the largest cruise ship in the...
by Dave Porter | 28th April 2022
When you are 21, you are not thinking about retirement, not at all. You are thinking of making some money so you can go out and party with your friends. Retirement is for old people, retirement is light years away, and anyway you only have enough money for a pint of...
by Dave Porter | 26th June 2020
I refer to Intu – the shopping centre people. They have just gone belly up! They own a number of well known UK shopping centres, like Lakeside in Essex and the Trafford Centre in Manchester. They also own two here in the North East of England, Eldon Square in...
by Dave Porter | 12th May 2020
It’s been an extraordinary few days and an even more extraordinary few weeks. Today is Tuesday 12th May 2020, and it’s day 50 of the total lockdown of the UK, a result of this terrible Covid-19 pandemic. Like most countries in the world, the UK has been in...
by Dave Porter | 27th October 2019
We have been doing this since 1916. On the last Sunday in October, at 2am, we turn our clocks back by one hour to 1am. But why? Apparently it was started in 1916, during the first world war, to save energy to help the war effort. But we still do it today.The current...
