Archive for January, 2009

10 neighbourly ideas to beat the recession

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Recent words/expressions being bandied around the media in the last year, such as “credit crunch”, “Economic downturn” and “recession” have probably got most of us thinking about saving money, how to cut back on our outgoings, and if the worst happens and we lose our jobs, how to live on much less. We at My […]

Streets with funny names

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

Just like humans, streets can have funny names too. And there can’t be any funnier than the collection in the article, Where the streets have bad names. The UK features heavily with Sluts Hole Lane in Norfolk, Grope Lane in Shrewsbury and Butts Wynd in St. Andrews (Scotland). Who said the English have a stiff […]