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"https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2024/01/11/mustelids-mulling-a-new-year-at-megalithic-sites/", "published_at": "2024-01-11T22:25:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-3b5d-7056-a861-c95a851f2051", "title": "Jezza budget special, meh but early retirees watch yer class II NI", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/11/22/jezza-budget-special-meh-but-early-retirees-watch-yer-class-ii/", "published_at": "2023-11-22T18:09:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-3b5d-7056-a861-c95a85cbc281", "title": "Decadence, drawdown and deceptive sales", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/11/09/decadence-drawdown-and-deceptive-sales/", "published_at": "2023-11-09T14:12:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-3b5d-7056-a861-c95a85dad8d0", "title": "No more income tax cuts", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/10/27/no-more-income-tax-cuts/", "published_at": "2023-10-27T12:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-3b5d-7056-a861-c95a85f29225", "title": "A late summer visit to Isaac Newton’s falling apple tree", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/09/28/a-late-summer-visit-to-isaac-newtons-falling-apple-tree/", "published_at": "2023-09-28T18:38:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-3b5d-7056-a861-c95a85f55dc1", "title": "a summer of discontent, life after growth and soul loss", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/a-summer-of-discontent-life-after-growth-and-soul-loss/", "published_at": "2023-09-06T21:18:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-3b5d-7056-a861-c95a86f00842", "title": "Bath – a Great British Export in full swing", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/07/20/bath-a-great-british-export-in-full-swing/", "published_at": "2023-07-20T13:56:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-3b5d-7056-a861-c95a873e16ab", "title": "Cornwall cogitations on travel and the sinking markets in pretty much everything", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/07/07/cornwall-cogitations-on-travel-and-the-sinking-markets-in-pretty-much-everything/", "published_at": "2023-07-07T13:27:59+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-3b5d-7056-a861-c95a8794856a", "title": "it’s not the rise in interest rates you need to fear, it’s negative equity bringing up the rear", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/its-not-the-rise-in-interest-rates-you-need-to-fear-its-negative-equity-bringing-up-the-rear/", "published_at": "2023-06-26T15:58:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-3b5d-7056-a861-c95a8862a613", "title": "ISA transfer weirdness again, and the tribulations of property", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/06/13/isa-transfer-weirdness-again-and-the-tribulations-of-property/", "published_at": "2023-06-13T16:06:04+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-697f-702b-842c-81b5821ee4db", "title": "A high tax primal scream – it’s what you keep, not what you earn", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/05/23/a-high-tax-primal-scream-its-what-you-keep-not-what-you-earn/", "published_at": "2023-05-23T19:23:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-697f-702b-842c-81b582d97ca7", "title": "the harvest that matters", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/05/12/the-harvest-that-matters/", "published_at": "2023-05-12T13:23:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-697f-702b-842c-81b58370448c", "title": "Be no King Tut", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/03/30/be-no-king-tut/", "published_at": "2023-03-30T13:30:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-697f-702b-842c-81b5845802ce", "title": "Don’t let the tax tail wag the investment dog, well, ok, maybe this once…", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/03/21/dont-let-the-tax-tail-wag-the-investment-dog-well-ok-maybe-this-once/", "published_at": "2023-03-21T15:54:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-697f-702b-842c-81b5846d3aad", "title": "Mrs Ermine’s Seasonal Salads", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/02/22/mrs-ermines-seasonal-salads/", "published_at": "2023-02-22T22:36:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-697f-702b-842c-81b584bb7c10", "title": "Compound Interest spreads its wings only at Dusk", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2023/01/27/compound-interest-spreads-its-wings-only-at-dusk/", "published_at": "2023-01-27T12:08:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-697f-702b-842c-81b58507b63e", "title": "Looking back over an “interesting” year", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2022/12/31/looking-back-over-an-interesting-year/", "published_at": "2022-12-31T16:34:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-697f-702b-842c-81b585bd5b78", "title": "The Hunt budget changes Ermine plans slightly", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2022/11/17/the-hunt-budget-changes-ermine-plans-slightly/", "published_at": "2022-11-17T15:23:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-697f-702b-842c-81b5868d3783", "title": "Festival of Brexit – less dismal than expected", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2022/11/15/festival-of-brexit-less-dismal-than-expected/", "published_at": "2022-11-15T14:35:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-697f-702b-842c-81b58729b6ab", "title": "Dear Tory MP, no more Bozza", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2022/10/21/dear-tory-mp/", "published_at": "2022-10-21T13:01:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-a04f-7112-8b88-3891128ab6a0", "title": "Britannia Unchained 0, Anti Growth Coalition 1 and counting", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2022/10/18/britannia-unchained-0-anti-growth-coalition-1-and-counting/", "published_at": "2022-10-18T17:33:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-a04f-7112-8b88-389112c9ee86", "title": "Britannia Unchained – Welcome to your Future", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2022/09/30/britannia-unchained-welcome-to-your-future/", "published_at": "2022-09-30T17:05:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-a04f-7112-8b88-389113baff27", "title": "Right you lazy FIRE 50-something layabouts – Britain needs YOU", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2022/09/22/right-you-lazy-fire-50-something-layabouts-britain-needs-you/", "published_at": "2022-09-22T15:27:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-a04f-7112-8b88-3891142a43fe", "title": "Truss mines magic money tree, mithering multitudes marvel at the munificence", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2022/09/08/truss-mines-magic-money-tree-mithering-multitudes-marvel-at-the-munificence/", "published_at": "2022-09-08T14:38:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-a04f-7112-8b88-3891145b0e73", "title": "Saving energy at home", "url": "https://simplelivingsomerset.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/saving-energy-at-home/", "published_at": "2022-08-25T12:22:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0cfe6-a04f-7112-8b88-38911490f073", "title": "The limits to growth and declining living standards", "url": 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2026

The AI bubble is a necessary eviloriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Suffolk birds get me into AIoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2026
Somerset farewell, the thrill of the chase and “the only money”original ↗
3 Aug 2026
Orford visit in the morning, gov.uk tiresomeness in the afternoonoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
Stiffed twice by the AI bubbleoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2026
Brexit, a very British predicamentoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2026
No Slave to the Smartphoneoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2026
Whole Again – the gold-plated State Pensionoriginal ↗
20 May 2026
Do DB pensions make you whole again? Part 3original ↗
14 May 2026
Do DB pensions make you whole again? Part 2original ↗
6 May 2026
Do DB pensions make you whole again? Part 1original ↗
29 Apr 2026
The barley bird comes to Suffolkoriginal ↗
26 Apr 2026
Help to Buy (votes) the results are inoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2026
Simple Living in Suffolk againoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2026
HL’s new PE masters wind their necks in, sort oforiginal ↗
6 Feb 2026
Hargreaves Lansdown’s PE masters come for a bite of the Ermine’s furoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2026
the proposed 2030 change to the Retail Price Index (RPI) and what it might actually mean for folks with a DB pensionoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2026
Everything Everywhere All At Onceoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2026

2025

iWeb is no moreoriginal ↗
8 Dec 2025
The value of flexing spend in retirementoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2025
FSCS ups deposit compensation to £120k. Not for Shares thoughoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2025
Simple Living in Suffolk again for a couple of weeksoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2025
Retiring at a Market Highoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2025
UK ID cards come in to fight the wrong fireoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2025
How you can profit from the coming devaluation – wisdom from half a century agooriginal ↗
22 Sept 2025
Lynton and Lynmouth – Victorian water powered funoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2025
capital gains tax hokey cokeyoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2025
A visit to the Great Wen in Summer Streets garboriginal ↗
27 Aug 2025
iWeb share dealing gets betteroriginal ↗
14 Aug 2025
UK Inflation – anatomy of the Covid crisisoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2025
The great AI bubble – I’m a believeroriginal ↗
28 Jul 2025
Stanton Drew – third largest prehistoric stone circle in Englandoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2025
How to determine your personal rate of inflationoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2025
FTSE100 ATH, Cash ISAs and the Leeds reformsoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2025
fun and fish on the English Rivieraoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2025
Decline and Fall of the Professional and Managerial Classoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2025
How inflation affects DB pension schemesoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2025
Enough – it’s a feeling, not a numberoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2025
Dear HSBC – income does not equal wealthoriginal ↗
9 May 2025
Inflation in the UK part 3 – they aren’t cooking the booksoriginal ↗
6 May 2025
Venetian Wanderingsoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2025
KOTUS to yippy PANICANs – chill the hell out you good ole boysoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2025
Who knows the secret of the Orange King’s Wormy Cranium that gave us this bear market?original ↗
7 Apr 2025
Inflation in the UK – a deep dive: Part 2original ↗
3 Apr 2025
Mustelid Magnificence in Bristoloriginal ↗
2 Apr 2025
Inflation in the UK – a deep diveoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2025
golden capital gains tax opportunitiesoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2025
A visit to a non-bank branch of Barclays and Ryanair bluesoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2025
Dalio strikes again on AI and US techoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2025
FIRE-side chat: Better late than neveroriginal ↗
24 Jan 2025
US valuations are not in a bubble – perma-bear Daliooriginal ↗
14 Jan 2025
A look back at 2024original ↗
4 Jan 2025

2024

Against Workism – a defence of Early Retirementoriginal ↗
10 Dec 2024
VWRL salutes the new Kingoriginal ↗
7 Nov 2024
ermine takes direct hit, worth it to see long standing iniquities hit too ;)original ↗
30 Oct 2024
financial independence in a world of hustleoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2024
wait but what – welcome to our new Vanguard app – FAILoriginal ↗
19 Sept 2024
Capital Gains tribulations – yet againoriginal ↗
5 Sept 2024
Is Risk always Bad News – followuporiginal ↗
25 Jul 2024
Is Risk always bad news?original ↗
17 Jul 2024
the tedious tiresomeness of running a GIAoriginal ↗
4 Jul 2024
looking back to the GFC and the fraying edge that followedoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2024
decumulation deliberations and dilemmasoriginal ↗
4 Jun 2024
Facebook AI – all your base are belong to usoriginal ↗
31 May 2024
You probably won’t be repaying that 40 year mortgage into old ageoriginal ↗
14 May 2024
Vanguard’s cautionary tale hidden in plain sightoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2024
How can I buy a Range Rover carrying CC debt? Not even wrongoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2024
Capital gains and the US versus the Restoriginal ↗
15 Mar 2024
Hinterland and FI/REoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2024
Capital Gains cogitationsoriginal ↗
9 Feb 2024
Mustelids mulling a new year at megalithic sitesoriginal ↗
11 Jan 2024

2023

Jezza budget special, meh but early retirees watch yer class II NIoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2023
Decadence, drawdown and deceptive salesoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2023
No more income tax cutsoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2023
A late summer visit to Isaac Newton’s falling apple treeoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2023
a summer of discontent, life after growth and soul lossoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2023
Bath – a Great British Export in full swingoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2023
Cornwall cogitations on travel and the sinking markets in pretty much everythingoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2023
it’s not the rise in interest rates you need to fear, it’s negative equity bringing up the rearoriginal ↗
26 Jun 2023
ISA transfer weirdness again, and the tribulations of propertyoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2023
A high tax primal scream – it’s what you keep, not what you earnoriginal ↗
23 May 2023
the harvest that mattersoriginal ↗
12 May 2023
Be no King Tutoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2023
Don’t let the tax tail wag the investment dog, well, ok, maybe this once…original ↗
21 Mar 2023
Mrs Ermine’s Seasonal Saladsoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2023
Compound Interest spreads its wings only at Duskoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2023

2022

Looking back over an “interesting” yearoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2022
The Hunt budget changes Ermine plans slightlyoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2022
Festival of Brexit – less dismal than expectedoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2022
Dear Tory MP, no more Bozzaoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2022
Britannia Unchained 0, Anti Growth Coalition 1 and countingoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2022
Britannia Unchained – Welcome to your Futureoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2022
Right you lazy FIRE 50-something layabouts – Britain needs YOUoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2022
Truss mines magic money tree, mithering multitudes marvel at the munificenceoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2022
Saving energy at homeoriginal ↗
25 Aug 2022
The limits to growth and declining living standardsoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2022
Ten years of leisure wrested from The Manoriginal ↗
23 Jun 2022
Fear and loathing in the markets againoriginal ↗
16 May 2022
Citywire’s miscellaneous marked up moronic musings on market movementsoriginal ↗
7 Apr 2022
Seeking a new ISA platformoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2022
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