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These are all the things in Siobhan's archives tagged as "money". If you want to narrow it down, you can use more than one tag, seperating them with a space.
Assimilation
There must be someone, somewhere in Leeds that understands the letter that just came through my door. It's full of numbers, words like "incremental progression" and "harmonised". Personally, I'm completely baffled, but it looks like Happy News™ so I'm going to take it as such.
Coffee++
Coffee is glorious stuff. Not only does it kick-start your brain in the morning, and maintain high levels of alertness during the daily grind, you can also carefully hold a mug of the stuff in the hollow of your neck to get heat right into the muscle that you somehow managed to pull as you woke up a few minutes earlier.
Second Opinions
Maybes it's just me. Maybes every other single one of you is massively organised in your day-to-day lives, opening letters before they've even landed on your mat, paying all manner of bills - even the window cleaner - by Direct Debit, totting up your receipts and knowing to the penny how much cash is in your accounts.
Don't you just hate it...
...when you get a new credit card (because you're old one got scratched), and you have to go through every single online service that you subscribe to updating each and every payment details?
An Expensive Day
It all adds up, doesn't it?
Red Tape
That thing about replaceing licenses by phone or by post, that's nothing compared to the pure pig-minded jobsworthiness I encountered earlier in the Post Office...
Funny, Isn't It?
How whenever you ring up your bank when you're in a bit of a pickle, your call seems to get answered by someone who's been trained to the level of a Ninja in the Art Of Patronising™, but when you're Doing Rather Well Thankyouverymuch™ you get straight through to the happy smiley bloke with a joyous lust for Monday mornings.
On The Inconsistencies Of Student Loans
In 1990, when I first went to university, the Government introduced Student Loans (Maggie Maggie Maggie! Out Out Out!). It wasn't a huge amount - about 480 quid if I remember rightly - nothing like what my students are borrowing these days.
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