My wife and I found, despite being on the grown-up side of our 40s, that in pricey Brighton it was almost impossible to get a foot on the property ladder. That was, until ‘Equity Release Parents’ stepped in...
Author - Jeff Hemmings
Jeff Hemmings
Living the dream – are our later years the perfect playground for creativity?
We don’t peak until late middle age, so say the experts. So how about realising those long-held dreams? Have you heard about the U-Shaped Happiness Curve? It’s a phenomenon of sorts that economists have recently...
Are we ready for the new lessons life still has for us?
Life is one long learning experience. I remember seeing an amazing guide to life on the back door of the toilet of my former wife’s parents’ house (her father was an Oxford professor) which had something about...
Turning a hobby into a later life income
The world of work is changing, and changing fast. For sure, most of us still need to earn a living wage, and a decent one at that. And unless the government decides to deposit several hundreds of thousands of pounds in...
Vinyl strikes back
We’ve probably all had these obsessions: Girls, boys, cars, clothes, football… and music; and that’s been perhaps my longest lasting obsession, along with its most durable format, vinyl. Obsessions, I...