Amanda Blinkhorn is a freelance journalist who has been writing about money, family life and everything in between since she was 19.
She blogs here almost every day and writes the Money Matters finance column in Candis magazine as well as for The Sunday Times and other newspapers and magazines. She lives in London with her four children aged between 8 and 19. She has almost finished training to be an adult literacy teacher and will qualify this summer, if she ever finishes those pesky essays.
Check out some of Amanda’s recent blogs below…
Payday envy
According to a survey by jobs website Glassdoor only 35 per cent of us know how much our colleagues earn...
Community service
Treadmills were invented to enable relatively puny humans to combine or lever their strength
Time to change?
Giving up the booze and fags is always a classic way to get rid of your overdraft but the question is – would life be worth living?
Christmas Eve and breathe
The shopping is done the shops are closed and all that’s left to do is to enjoy
