My Money: It feels like a luxury to shop for non-essential items
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image captionSarah enjoying a sunny day
My Money is a series looking at how people spend their money - and the sometimes tough decisions they have to make. Here, Sarah, 31 from Kent talks us through her weekly spending as the UK emerges from its third national lockdown.
Sarah lives with her three-year-old daughter Annie, who attends nursery while Sarah works from home.
Sarah works as a team manager in social care where she recently received a promotion. The increased salary has allowed her to spend more during her week.
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We were probably three weeks into the test before I felt confident enough that I could take the long route to the supermarket one day, via some local roads I love, without risking a £200 police fine. And so I did just enough B-road miles in the Urus to blow off the dust (or rather the snow) and to experiment with that whopping great Tamburo driving mode selector on the transmission tunnel.
Now, you can only click this thing in one direction, and there are six preset driving modes to switch through (translated from the Italian, they’re Road, Sport, Track, Snow, Rock and Sand, plus an extra Ego mode in which you can set the car’s systems up à la carte, supposedly). Anyway, if you miss the one you were aiming for because you’re, I dunno, looking at the road or something, it’s a bit annoying to have to click through them all again. Living with a car makes you all too aware of little usability foibles like this.
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Grammy Awards are usually a night of glitz and glamour, a key diamond-studded fixture on the music calendar.
This year, however, is a little different. The impact of the pandemic will be felt across the ceremony, which takes place this evening (March 14th).
Could this be a year for upsets? After all, there s been no bigger shock than COVID, and it would appropriate for the Grammys to open up their trophy cabinet to the left-field.
So, here s five potential upsets.
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Album Of The Year - Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia
The biggie. The capo di tutti capo of the Grammy awards. The biggest of the Big Four categories, Album Of The Year finds Taylor Swift (who, let s be honest, will probably win here) doing battle against HAIM, Post Malone, and - implausibly - Black Pumas.