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April 28th, 2010
We have a pact with our friends to call each other when we get home from events or holidays that we have been on together, to check everyone gets home safely. Last week we were on Holiday in the Lake District with a few other couples and ‘call me when you get in’ were the [...]
Tags: car crash, fraud, holiday, Insurance
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April 25th, 2010
Our reliance on the internet is made apparent when you are forced to live without it for a while. We were invited on holiday to Lancaster to stay in a place called Thurnam Hall, was impressive …now owned by diamond resorts.
Upon arrival we see a wireless router plugged into the wall, but no information [...]
Tags: holiday, Internet, lancaster
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April 25th, 2010
I have just finished my first year as a laboratory technician, and I have very mixed feelings about it. On one hand it is completely different to how I expected. I was brought up in the suburbs and had very little to do with city children. So seeing how some of them act and behave [...]
Tags: education, employment, jobs, schools
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April 18th, 2010
With the property market slowly recovering my wife’s family are doing their part to help it get going again. My brother in law has just moved into his house (the move happened this weekend) and my parents in law are part way though the process of buying a new house.
After the disaster that happened with [...]
Tags: houses, propery, real estate
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April 18th, 2010
My wife and I decided this year that we would have a go at growing our own vegetables after watching the new BBC series, the edible garden. We are total novices at growing anything because we have only had our garden for 2 years and the first year it was all patio slabs that needed [...]
Tags: gardening, growing, veg, vegetables
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April 15th, 2010
I have written before about my brother in law buying a house right next to mine, well that whole process started in November and it has only just completed. I thought buying my house was complicated with a 3 week delay, but taking over 5 months is just ridiculous. He has only now realised how [...]
Tags: Brother in law, DIY, houses, Property, technology
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