I really wanted to build a house out of Lego like my hero James May. I really wanted to, but I didn’t have the 20 thousand pounds required to pay for the bricks. You see my difficulty? Yes. My credit rating was pretty bad, so I couldn’t get a loan from the bank. If my credit rating was good, I’m sure they’d have loved to have lent me the money for a Lego house. But it wasn’t, so I decided to consider a guarantor loan. Read more... (243 words, 1 image, estimated 58 secs reading time)
Posted in Bad on 02. Oct, 2009
I share a house with 3 girls: a Spaniard, a Kazakstani and a Turkmenistani. This has done wonders for my cultural awareness, giving a me an insight into how often a Turkmenistani girl thinks her boyfriend should visit.

It appears that she thinks her boyfriend should visit ‘all the time’. It is no-coincidence that the word ‘sub-let’ does not exist in Turkmen, where the shadow of socialism still means people can live for free anywhere they want. It seems. Read more... (328 words, 1 image, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)