UK rates stayed at 3.75%. The next move might be up, not down.
Hannah
In December the Bank of England cut Bank Rate to 3.75%, and the news sound like a door opening. I remember the tone more than I remember any graph. It…
2026
Luxury brands still sold handbags while holiday flights got wrecked.
There is a window in town with a bag on a pedestal, lit as if it were a small painting. I do not want the bag. I want to understand…
Food prices finally calmed down — because the big shops were scared to go first.
I have started keeping receipts, which is not a personality I planned. Not in a scrapbook. In the inside pocket of my bag, until they turn pale and I throw…
I punched a song into paper so a tiny box could play it
Today was the exhibition for my Year 9 capstone, 2 June, and the whole project fit in a white box you can hold in two hands. It is a music…
The war thousands of miles away is about to show up on the electricity bill.
I left my lamp on again while I was reading. My mum say the sentence she always say, the one about the bill, and I almost answer that a lamp…
The same holiday flight cost about a quarter more than last year.
There is a family chat that only wake up when someone say the word “flights.” It woke up this week. A parent had searched a summer date we talked about…
The law now says your school cannot make you buy a pile of logo kit.
I emptied my PE bag onto the bedroom floor this week because the zip had started eating itself, and the pile look like a small shop had fallen over. Logo…
Netflix went up by as much as $2 a month. Again.
The email arrived the way they always do: polite, designed, a little proud of itself. Netflix is going up. Again. On 26 March they raise US prices for the second…
Cocoa beans got much cheaper. The Easter egg did not.
The Easter aisle arrived in the supermarket while I was still wearing a coat. Eggs in foil. Bunnies in boxes stacked too high. A price that make my mum do…
Netflix almost bought Harry Potter’s studio — then said the price was too high.
Last Sunday I rewatched a Harry Potter film because I had a World Literature paragraph to finish and a bad habit of rewarding myself first. Halfway through, a thought arrive…