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…

A time to give

A time to give

Did you watch the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games?

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Modern weavers

Modern weavers

Would you stretch to spending £170,000 for a loom band dress?

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A helping hand

A helping hand

I’m in no hurry to see either of the girls fly the coop just yet

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Driving a hard bargain

Driving a hard bargain

Ella took her first driving lesson and she is anxious to pass her test asap

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Time to say goodbye

Time to say goodbye

Doughnut died at the vet’s yesterday afternoon, aged 13 years and five months

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Rich pickings

Rich pickings

Doughnut has become so adept at filtering out and rejecting his pills

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Saving the rainforest

Saving the rainforest

Here are ways you can save the rainforest without moving from the sofa

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Lest I forget…

Lest I forget…

I am delighted to announce that Doughnut is back on his feet

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Let’s party

Let’s party

Last night it was the turn of the student house to celebrate the World Cup

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Let’s get this straight…

Let’s get this straight…

I’ve decided to embrace the Rio lifestyle and I’ve got myself a Brazilian blow dry

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Birthday celebrations!

Birthday celebrations!

I fully intended to politely gloss over my birthday this year

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Flexi time

Flexi time

It’s about time that work was seen as something that has to fit into real life

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