I was not going to write this 4 years of FIRE post but I’ve had a number of requests for it which made me do a little thinking.  In the end ...

2021 has been my third year since I took that initial leap into the FIRE unknown and for me it’s been my biggest year ever for change.  Some...

I’m not sure if it’s the COVID-19 lockdown affecting me, or whether this is really a thing, but over the past month or so I’ve started to r...

With us now being only a single working week away from the new UK financial year and the investment world still feeling the impacts of the ...

November 2019 marks a couple of significant anniversaries for me.  The first anniversary is that it’s now 10 years since I started this blo...

The organisation I up until recently worked for closes its year at the end of December.  With shutdowns between Christmas and New Year it m...

Even if you’re not into your Greek mythology then you’ve probably heard of Aphrodite, the Ancient Greek Goddess of love and beauty.  The l...

During the week I was asked by a family member how much we’re paying for our contents insurance annually.  I replied that we don’t have con...

Recently  I’ve been having doubts about taking early retirement.  What I’ve found particularly interesting is that since becoming financia...

By now it’s no secret that I dislike investment expenses and continually work to minimise them in the most cost effective manner.  I’ve als...

At age 45 I’m beginning to think I might just be falling behind all the cool kids.  Let’s use grocery shopping as an example.  Throughout...

A lot of very thoughtful comment last week so I thought it might bring some value to the collective if I expand on my musings a little more...

Time since my One More Year call  has passed by incredibly quickly.  In fact so quickly that if I’m to stick strictly to it resignation day...

It’s not always sunny on The Med The past few months have seen me pass through my annual work performance review, my annual salary revi...

Well it looks like asset prices don’t always go up.  Of course I’m not surprised by this revelation but the mainstream media did seem surpr...

FIRE to a Spanish Island? Just where has 2017 gone?  It seems like only yesterday I was eating One More Year (OMY) humble pie  and I no...

Paphos Forest, Cyprus In the immediate aftermath of the Brexit referendum result my immediate thoughts were has the door to our dream b...

To set the scene it’s now been 14 months since I achieved Financial Freedom  and it’s been 3 months since we decided to put a year between ...

As each week of Financial Independence (FI) passes , particularly the last few weeks, I can feel quite a bit of change occurring within mys...

I’ve written previously that one of the reasons I’ve decided to do one more year  is because we’d like to let the dust settle a little mo...