The administrator’s acting on behalf of Comet may have performed a u-turn on their acceptance policy of gift cards, but perhaps not before doing some damage to the whole image of gift cards. In the UK, more than £4bn was spent on gift cards in 2011. Whether for high street stores or online retailers, they… Continue reading >

This was a notice displayed during a walk through Beck Hole, a small village near Goathland, last summer. What the source of the wasps’ anger was, I never did find out. Instead I chose to take the advice given, and turn off the path in order to head towards the village, where the atmosphere was… Continue reading >