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House swap holidays – swap your home in the UK for a great holiday
Exchange is the new way forward, its a way of sharing, learning and getting what you need without being sucked further toward a financial problem, so many people for example borrow to go on holiday. Simple house swap changes all that, to keep it simple its just in the... »
The true cost of the economic crisis
Credit streams were harder to access and the tax man came knocking; and from a highly visible and successful company with a multi million pound turnover to administration in a few months. ... "How to Get a Job in a Recession" (Denise Taylor) I heard the striking post workers... »
The Economy : Is my job safe
For working people its wait until next year, as we don't really know what happening; after Christmas we may have a clearer idea and hope that interest rates have been reduced to nearer 2% in the Uk, freeing up credit and lowering mortgages. ... Gordon Brown says he is going to spend on public... »
The Economy : “I’m not interested in politics”
29 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... This is not just the biggest economic meltdown of modern times, but also a political one. So there am I on the train into work and this couple opposite me are chatting and the guy sees a page on my paper, he says to the woman “I... »
Getting home after a few drinks
16 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... On Saturday night, my wife and I went back to the country house hotel where we were married, because there had been a small mix up over food at the reception they had offered us a free meal and drinks at our convenience. This was at The Buxted Park... »
Fear of the Future
6 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... In northern europe as fuel bills rise to astronomical levels, the average weekly shopping trip has risen in price by around 35%, house prices fall, interest rates stay at medium high levels, we are slowly coming to understand that the time of plenty without thought or responsibility is... »
SURVIVORS – BBC Tv series of the 1970s
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I read somewhere that the BBC were going to remake SURVIVORS as they had been in negotiation with the estate of Terry Nation who wrote the original idea and some episodes. “Survivors – Series 1 – Complete ” (Terence Dudley) This was an incredible series that went on for 3... »
Bespoke suit from Raja Fashions – Don’t do it
1,119 views (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ... So I am getting married in a couple of weeks, just a small family get together with a few friends. I have been married before so this is a UK civil wedding. I am not a great suit wearer, so am not experienced in... »
The Laughter of Women
19 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Sometimes in the use of verse one line or two can catch you and draw you in, I like this line: Prisoners held in underground cells imagine that they see daylight when they remember the laughter of women “Alive Together: New and Selected Poems” (Lisel Mueller) mainly because it reminded me of a... »
Instructions from the rich and famous
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I am sick of getting instructions from the rich and famous on how to live my life. As the father of 3 children one of whom is not yet one, I am concerned about the future, about the way we live our lives and treat our world. BUT, if... »
The final speech of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator
9 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I think The Great Dictator is one of Charlie Chaplins most interesting films, and this speech at the end of the film made not by the dictator but by his double the Jewish Barber, still strikes me as having deep meaning and as being as true today as... »
England, Euro 2008 and the germans had the right idea
8 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I heard it say after their 1966 loss to England the Germans went back and changed things root and branch in the German game and then dominated European and world football for 25+years from the 1970 world cup onward. Players of those times also went on to be... »
Heather Mills McCartney
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I wonder whether the media are preparing to send Heather Mills down the David Icke Road of Sad, Bad and Mad. Yes heather mills who married Paul McCartney and didn’t get on with his kids. I am not sure if I have the right order there. First they say... »
Explanation of Politics
14 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... The Cow System LIBERAL DEMOCRAT You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. You feel guilty for being successful. You Get rid of your leader CONSERVATIVE You have two cows. Your neighbor has none. So? LABOUR You have two cows. The government takes one and gives it to your neighbor. You form a cooperative to tell him how to manage his... »
Information on Spelt Flour
105 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Spelt: where’s it from and why is it good for you? After worrying over it for some time, I finally bought a bread maker, a panasonic and it was not cheap, but I am loving it already. Many of you have come here in the past for some of... »
Run with the hunted
5 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... For quite some time now I have hummed and ha’d about this blog, as I moved it from terribly slow wordpress and have been trying to sync it between blogger and rapidweaver , the mac website builder. My biggest concern is the matter of privacy, being careful about what... »
Please Link to this site
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Link to me and i will put up a link to you, mention my site and I will mention yours, the more the merrier because the more links the better for the search engines to scan your website or web log…in fact the better for both of us.... »
The Eve of Destruction
21 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Don’t give up the spirit of power Listening to the sounds of the 60s on the Radio this morning, I was entranced by the sense of positive and directed energy that appeared in the lyrics, music and artists of this period…we can do so much more with this legacy These... »
Autumn Days by Estelle white
88 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... My son was asking about this as a favourite of the school assembly and always liked as a song for junior school, year 6 leavers is I thought I would put up the lyrics: Autumn days, when the grass is jewelled And the silk in a chestnut shell Jet planes meeting... »
affordable housing and death on our streets
11 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Gordon Brown has talked a fair bit about affordable housing and I think this is one of the answers to both poverty of aspiration, gangs and killings. Affordable housing needs to be part of mixed builds as they are at present but in greater numbers. So that 50-60% of... »
Mary Oliver – Dogfish
43 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Mary Oliver …again Build a shrine to this woman, (Mary Oliver ) her way with words and soul and emotion is just amazing, her ability to understand and comminicate images from nature that echo ancient symbols and visions of the internal workings of the heart and soul is incredible.... »
NHS Mangers and Management
16 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Clinical staff aside, who would take a job in NHS management or administration, especially in the lower and mid reaches of this management structure? You only have to look at recent public consultation exercises to relaise what a difficult job this is. What targets do these people have, what... »
The McCanns – What are they guilty of?
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Where is Maddie, are her parents involved, what really happened, what do you think, have your say. What is going on here. 2 people in their late thirties left their children, the eldest was 3, alone. Not teeneage mums on a sink estate but two middle-class doctors. In the... »
Choosing a steam iron
12 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Unfortunately you can’t get black and decker irons in the UK, at least not the good ones. So I bought the tefal ultraglide 60 (not the 50 or the 70…which are older models) This is the best iron I have ever used and back in April I discover it... »
Woodburning stove
7 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... Well I finally did it, and everything can be bought on the net, I bought a wood burning stove from www.naturalheating.co.uk, who were very helpful and full of advise and interest, and they were not as expensive as you think. I went for a wood burner rather than... »
Its OK, I dont like Cats either!
13 views (No Ratings Yet) Loading ... I really dont like cats for a long time I thought it was because one had bitten and scratched me when i was younger. However i relaised it was because they just aren’t very likeable. They sneak around, they are sly and haughty, and they are the pets... »
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- Contact Jonathan (5.00 out of 5)
- Jonathan Spencer’s Recipe for Peppermint Creams (5.00 out of 5)
- How to get a close and smooth shave (5.00 out of 5)
- Bespoke suit from Raja Fashions – Don’t do it (5.00 out of 5)
- Unhealthy London Underground (5.00 out of 5)
- The Story of The Islanders (5.00 out of 5)
- Castle Boterel – Thomas Hardy (5.00 out of 5)