Posts Tagged ‘credit crunch’
March 15th, 2009
Since moving to York we had never realised just how close Sheffield is, so on Saturday after a bit of a lie in we decided to take a look. With a journey time of 50 minutes we had parked up and entered Meadowhall on the outskirts of Sheffield. It was built around twenty years ago, [...]
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February 2nd, 2009
After a weekend that took an unexpected and unfortunate turn for our friends who had originally planned to spend it with us, we woke this morning to find a very nice covering of Snow over much of the UK. Listening to the excited BBC News presenters (makes a change from the credit crunch I suppose) [...]
January 24th, 2009
After a late start to the day we headed into the City Centre for a spot of shopping and a light lunch. On our way, we stopped off at Deans Garden Centre looking to buy a water butt so we could start to collect rain water for the garden come summer. Unfortunately they didn’t have the 60mm [...]
January 20th, 2009
From the outset, my treatment at Castle BMW of York was exemplorary. Although the showroom looks a little tired compared to the other ‘newer’ show rooms for other car makes on the same Clifton Moor site, the experience itself was first class. Not one red balloon was in site and the copious amounts of coffee [...]
December 10th, 2008
I had thought the crowds that have greeted us the last few weekends in York were just that; weekend crowds. However venturing out into York a couple of times this week, I note the crowds are still there and all shopping frantically. The traditional Christmas fayre is doing a roaring trade and it is hard [...]
November 24th, 2008
I needed to pop into the City today to catch up on all those little jobs I’ve not managed to do having been working in London pretty much everyday now for some weeks. The old faithful car started up immediately and so I set off. I noticed as I approached the first roundabout it felt [...]
July 30th, 2008
Credit Crunch is one of the most popular phrases used in the news these days. ’Staycation’ is the latest addition and describes stay at home vacations. Well I am pleased to be able to play my part in softening the current credit crunch crisis by providing my reviews of popular (and not so popular) businesses around [...]