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2026

Pension drawdown – it’s about what you keep, not the tax rate when you do the DC shuffleoriginal ↗
29 Sept 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
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