Weekly Round-Up – Saturday 14th May 2016

Friday 13th, unlucky for some, especially if you live or work in Cranleigh and need to use an Internet connection!

We had to cope with a major failure at the local BT exchange yesterday, taking the office offline for the entire day and leaving the team cleaning windows and assembling furniture instead!

Here are some of the other things that we got up to at Informed Choice this week.

On the blog this week

Women suffer more from losing a partner

Moving in with parents after a break up

Generation Inflation debunks silver inflation phenomenon

Dragging a tyre around a marathon

The latest podcast episode

Should you sell in May and stay out of the equity markets until St Leger Day?

Martin examines this old investing adage in the latest episode of the Informed Choice Podcast.

Before you go

What happened when a swam of 15,000 honeybees turned up outside of office last Friday morning? Martin was straight on the case and arranged for a registered swarm collector to rescue as many as possible.

Here’s the story in the Surrey Advertiser, complete with video and photographs contributed by Martin.