Today is Mothering Sunday in the UK, on which people honour their mothers, often giving gifts and cards. However, unlike the American Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on the second Sunday in May and is a 20th century invention, Mothering Sunday has much earlier origins as a date in the Church calendar, when people returned [...]
Royal Mail have a page on their website where it is possible to find out the last Christmas posting dates for international destinations.
But what do Royal Mail recommend if, after choosing your destination, the deadline for that country has already passed? Under the heading What to do next it suggests: “Try a different service or [...]
I wanted to write something about the collapse of the Farepak Christmas savings scheme, which left thousands of mainly low-income households without extra money to spend at Christmas.
However, I came across an excellent article in the Sunday Times by Merryn Somerset Webb, the editor of Money Week, which says most of the things I wanted [...]
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