by Mark Buck | Aug 4, 2026 | Live Happy, Tips & Advice
The subscription economy has its charms. It lets us listen to music without a shelf of compact discs, watch Scandinavian crime dramas at 10.43pm, store 19,000 photographs of dogs and clouds, and receive replacement razor blades with the inevitability of the tides. It...
by Mark Buck | Jul 7, 2026 | Live Happy, Tips & Advice
The British summer holiday is a financial event dressed up as relaxation. It begins with optimism. Flights get compared at 11.47pm, when judgement has weakened but confidence has not. A fare appears marked “basic”, a word that used to mean simple and now means “you...
by Mark Buck | May 28, 2026 | Live Happy, Tips & Advice
The drawer performs a valuable social function. It allows us to say, “I’ve put it somewhere safe,” while ensuring that no human being will ever willingly retrieve it. It is not filing. It is sedimentation. The British approach to personal...
by Mark Buck | May 6, 2026 | Live Happy, Plan Well, Tips & Advice
If financial plans could speak, most would not begin with spreadsheets, projections or elegant modelling. They would begin with a sigh. Not an angry one. Not even a disappointed one. Just the sort of weary, knowing sigh usually reserved for watching someone say, “I’ll...
by Mark Buck | Apr 7, 2026 | Live Happy, News, Plan Well
At first glance, it seems like exactly the sort of thing Britain should have sorted out by now. Most countries manage perfectly well with a calendar year. We, on the other hand, prefer to begin our tax year just as spring gets going, which is not especially intuitive...
