Some great stuff here people, thank you.

Loving Gemma Hayes.

Liking The Unthanks – isn't Spotify great?

Sweet Honey sounds very promising.

Norah Jones – never tried, as I decided I wasn't smug coupley and in my 30s enough for that. Rather, I am but the denial is strong! 🙂

Dido – always good stuff, but I always wish she would wail more. Sounds way too controlled.

Leona. No. But thanks.

Joss Stone – good shout indeed 🙂

Jamelia – hmmm. Perhaps.

Avril – So wrong on so many levels, and therefore very right!

Thanks everyone, keep em coming.

Well, the idea that a low-fat diet is healthy and good for you is bunkum. We have been well and truly sold a lie there.

If you follow a low fat diet – as recommended by most health professionals – you are actually increasing your risk of illness. Strange, but largely true.

The most effective way to reduce weight and eat healthy is cutting down on processed foods – in particular to reduce sugar and carb intake.

See if you can get hold of the movie fathead – interesting stuff about how the existing diet orthodoxy is largely wrong and how it is being challenged. That of course is not the complete story, but it will give you a good entry point to the debate.

I'm with you FoxyChick, but I'm curious what your point of view is?

It's nice to see someone else rejecting conventional – and misguided – convention.

New Timbuk2 Commute bag ordered from CycleSurgery – I am now insanely excited 🙂 I should get out more.

Cyclesurgery might be the one, thanks.

Interesting. Sounds like it'd be a good thing to do. Just need to see if it comes off – breath is not held!

Is it possible to save money while there? I think it's low tax, no?

Obviously would depend on the package, but if I could get subsidised housing it might make it possible to put some cash by, like everyone that goes to Dubai tries to do.

Was worried about the cost of housing, so that's fair comment.

Just need to see if the idea goes anywhere.

Nope. Colonel Saunders launched KFC when he was either 64 ot 67…

Wonder if the doc could prescribe something for workshyness??

Cool, how can I get paid for frequenting web forums about sport and reading the news online. Oh, and Googling faster than anyone else?

lol! more stick than carrot, eh?

Still no answer?

Come on then Frisky? What is wrong?

56% here – in your eye Houns!

lol, I think Davy has just about nailed it 😉

Farmer_John, what exactly do you know of the BBC? I have worked inside that august institution and I can tell you that value for money and controlling costs is taken very seriously indeed.

So, I want to know what you know and who it concerns, and I will alert the appropriate people.

What’s that, cat got your tongue?

That’s interesting about auctions being expensive at the moment. I’m not in any rush, so will keep my eye out for something decent (well, as decent as my small budget allows).

Interesting reggie – can you tell me roughly what industry that is?

At present I am charged out at a LOT by my employer in the south-east, but if I do it on my own, in the north, I’d need to scale it back a bit.

It’s a specialised area of marketing that I’m in.

Good advice people, thank you.

Was worried I would just “think fo a number”. At least now I can think about the ways I can arrive at a figure.

D’oh! Sorry, wrong forum. 🙁

Please move.

Thanks mboy – pro’s and cons list is a good plan.

Eldridge – wife has been knocking her pan in to find work, but she has a very specialised background and has previously owner her own business, which employers seem to hate!

Still, looks like the soul eating job will be cast aside – four sheets to the wind and all that.

Nice, thank you.

Sorry, wrong forum 🙁

guess not. B ugger. Gap in the market?

Interesting…. It’s a kind offer Mr Munro, but not today, thank you 🙂

I was kinda thinking that among the STW masses there must be someone who has built a business from their kitchen table – you know, a classic entrepreurial tale of derring do. I don’t suppose that needs to be web based.

As much as answers, I guess I’m looking for inspiration.

At the risk of being a pain, I’d love one too please 🙂

Sorry, should have said that good internet banking is absolutely crucial…

Cool, I’ll check them out. Ta. Are they based in Brum, or do you have a URL for them?

Interesting responses, thanks… Not really politically motivated to do it, I just have the vague sense it would be healthier and that I’d feel a lot better.

I suppose in this financial climate the ability to eat well for less is a pleasant side effect.