Tesco deals

July 23rd, 2009

My local supermarket is a Tesco so as I shop there a lot I have a club card (probably like every other person in the country).  When I get my club card vouchers through the post in the past I have always just cashed them in for a bit of money off my shopping, but [...]

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Kitten news

July 19th, 2009

It has been awhile since I have written about my new cat.  The last time he had started to eat solid food which I am glad to say that he has continued to do and has gone from strength to strength.  He has really become one of the family I could not imagine him not [...]

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New eco towns

July 19th, 2009

The new location of the four eco towns has been released.  The location have been confirmed as Rackheath, (Norfolk), north-west Bicester (Oxfordshire), Whitehill Bordon, (East Hants), and the China Clay Community (Cornwall).  This is just the first four as the Government wants 10 in total.
I am very suspicious about the new eco towns, I feel [...]

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Importance of the Internet

July 16th, 2009

How important is access to the Internet.  I am part of the generation that can just remember what life was like before the Internet.  When I was around 7 my Dad brought home our first Microsoft computer complete with a Pentium 75 processor.  At the time it seemed fantastic, but looking back it is nothing [...]

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The property market

July 14th, 2009

There have been lots of reports lately about the housing market that have made the whole market look very confusing.  One mortgage lender would say that there are more mortgages being sold while others say that there is a decrease in mortgages.  There are still signs of a recovery in the property market with the [...]

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Swine flu

July 13th, 2009

Swine flu is definitely with us but is it as bad as the media has made out?  We get a blow by blow account of every death that happens with Swine flu, so far the UK is up to 17 deaths.  If you look at normal flu, the yearly epidemic can cause deaths of up [...]

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Technology and specialist status

July 12th, 2009

Education seems like the Governments toy.  When they get board they like to play with it, add extra things teachers have to do, put a few more hoops in place.  There next idea is teacher MOTs, every five years teachers are going to be reviewed to see if they are good enough to teach.  At [...]

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Surveillance in the UK

July 11th, 2009

One of my friends recently brought a new house.  It took them ages to get it all sorted but that happened 2 weeks ago now.  The first thing they did was go out and buy lots of nice new things for the house, like a new TV, microwave, DVD player, and other electrical appliances and [...]

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Holiday in Yarmouth

July 8th, 2009

I officially own a dance mat, I’m ashamed.  Actually that’s not the most shameful thing, I own a dance mat high school musical 3 edition for the XBOX 360.  I say I own, it is my wife’s and she has wanted one for quite a while. 
 
Back in 2002, fresh out of school, aged just [...]

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Freeview and freesat

July 7th, 2009

I am looking to cut my costs a bit so I am afraid that the TV might have to go.  I am currently on Sky for phone, broadband, and television but it is an extravagance.  When I was first looking at what to get I only looked at the three main companies (BT, Sky and [...]

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