Warning: "Interest-only mortgage time-bomb". BBC- here.

Household budgets in 1957 compared to today:

BBC - here
ONS blog post - here

Nick Farron apologises for saying that gay sex is not sinful. BBC here. Extraordinary that he was leader of LibDems.

Election 2017 was contested by a trio of totally unsuited candidates. Not much has changed. Weep.

Fundamentalist Brexiteers presenting 'English' hampers as gifts. BBC here.

Laughably out-of-touch. How many young people (they are the future after all) would get excited by this collection?

Ridiculous.

So, the vegetarian who occasionally eats meat is a thing. There's a word for it: flexitarian. Wikipedia here.

Came across it in BBC article about Tesco's new vegan ready-meal range. Eating habits are moving towards vegeism of some sort - and business is noticing. If flexitarian has a place on the vegi-spectrum then there's room for me too.

On 'Divorce Day', the fist working Monday of the new year, we learn that money worries are the main reason for marital break-up. One in ten marriages disintegrate because there isn't enough resources to keep things together. Painful.

BBC here.