Just as Jane has kicked off a diary of her house buying adventures, I thought I’d be regaling you for weeks to come with tales of woe as I searched for a rented home.
But no!  Call it luck, call it fate, call it an over-saturated rental market – hell, call it whatever you like, I [...]

Where do I start with this? Monty’s cottage, from ‘Withnail and I’ - one of the most quoted films EVER - is up for auction by Savills on 16th February.
It’s starting price is £145,000 but you just know it’s going to go through the roof as rich movie geeks get all misty eyed at the [...]

New year, new life, etc so after I recovered from the turkey fest I decided 2009 was going to be the year when I finally bought my own place.
But several weeks in and this whole flat hunting business is starting to feel like my love life – complicated.
At least 10 flats have taken my fancy [...]

George Monbiot, Guardian columnist, green campaigner and the chattering classes’ favourite eco luvvie, has suddenly gone completely mad and declared war on … the Aga.
Now look George, I have to tell you, it’s all well and good getting shirty about Terminal 5, recycling, Shell, etc, but quite another to start criticising the lifestyles of media [...]

Sarah Beeny, in typically forthright style, says she wouldn’t miss being on the goggle box, but her old man might be a bit miffed:
“I still don’t like the lack of privacy that goes with it. I’ve been on television for the past seven years, which is incredible really. My husband would mind though.
“I was a [...]

Well done to the FT’s excellent Alphaville blog for spotting an interesting chart in the Nationwide’s quarterly report – one that suggests house prices are just a hair’s breadth away from returning to their long-term trend.
The diagonal line is the long-term trend; the drunken squiggly one plots how house prices have deviated wildly from the [...]

As that old Chinese curse euphemistically states, ‘may you live in interesting times’ and 2008 was certainly interesting; with 2009 shaping up to be not just interesting but also fascinating, flabbergasting and possibly even gobsmacking.
Thankyou for all your support and comments in 2008 and from all of us at Winging It, cheers, sláinte and iechyd [...]

Normally when I’m on holiday, I’m far more inclined towards trash TV than anything remotely brain-taxing, but this Christmas I’m going to tune into a Radio 4 special about the economy (Today programme, 31 December).
The fact that this particular radio show is being edited by Jarvis Cocker – who I’ve seen in concert, oh, about [...]

Here’s a little Christmas game to waste 5 minutes …
Shoot snowballs at Santa! But watch out for the evil snowmen (and the turkeys).

(courtesy of the nice people over at www.scenta.co.uk)

We’re easily amused here at Winging It – a picture of a monkey or a YouTube video of a dancing cat is usually enough to have us chortling happily.
But it takes something a bit special to make us howl so dementedly that we’re in danger of rupturing major internal organs.
So be warned: this stupendous spoof [...]