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Foreign Perspectives
News and editorial on life in the south of France, a series on how to move here and some random musings too. As seen on TV.
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Online UK garden centre
2008-02-28 14:01:29
It’s nearing the end of the winter so it’s a good time to start thinking about how you’d like your garden to look this spring. Garden Furniture will no doubt feature highly in your thoughts and it’s good to see that it’s available online these days as often the selection in local garden centres seems to be [...]...
 
Wordpress annoyances
2008-02-28 13:49:49
Whilst it’s great to have Wordpress available free, what’s not so hot is that now and again you hit little bugs in the software that you can’t do a whole lot about. For example, at the moment, I’m continually getting “MySQL server has gone away” which is a time-out thing. There is a fix for it [...]...
 
Thinking of learning German, or perhaps just refreshing your existing German?
2008-02-28 13:44:14
If it’s been a while since you learnt to speak German, chances are that you’re a little rusty and in need of a refresher on the vocabulary and grammar. If that sounds like you then the information on the German language at elanguageschool might be ideal. I’m not sure that you could learn the language from scratch using the [...]...
 
New template, new readership
2008-02-28 13:35:49
One of the oddities of blogging is that it’s very easy to change the overall look of a blog without affecting the content at all. Now, on the whole outside the regular readership most people arrive on a blog by way of a search engine of some sort. Some are blog specific, some are generic like [...]...
 
Looking for a car but ain’t got the money for one?
2008-02-28 09:56:09
I’m sure that situation describes many people these days but even a bad credit record isn’t a show stopper as there are many excellent sites around that offer pretty much guaranteed car finance no matter what your situation. Generally speaking car credit is very much a specialised area as there are a massive number of options available [...]...
 
The popular posts: all financial
2008-02-28 09:24:38
Whilst this isn’t really an out and out financial blog as such I write about various financial topics from time to time as you’ve probably noticed. What’s odd about them is that any time I write about something financial, I always get a little flurry of incoming links from an assorted collection of blog aggregation services. [...]...
 
Parents are still giving their “kids” money
2008-02-27 13:38:51
With the credit squeeze still upon us, it shouldn’t be a great surprise to learn that many parents are still tapping the Bank of Mum & Dad even as adults. The research commissioned by Scottish Widows indicates that over a third of parents have had to tap into their retirement savings to fund these requests from [...]...
 
Looking critically at your own language
2008-02-27 13:26:05
Doing the English component of my modern languages degree as the very last course after years of learning both French and Spanish gives a slightly peculiar perspective. For one thing, I know a lot of the linguistics words that they’re using but I only know the French and Spanish words for the relevant terms. It’s a [...]...
 
The detox trend
2008-02-27 05:37:12
One of the catchwords of modern times is ‘detox’ and no doubt everyone knows someone who has gone on a detox at some stage. It’s the new way of treating the body and health from the inside out and of course in many ways it makes perfect sense to do this. I guess it is [...]...
 
Writing style for sponsored posts
2008-02-27 05:18:37
If you’re ever leafing through blogs that do sponsored posts there seem to be two basic styles that people use when writing them. First, there are those which are pure advertising. They have written exactly what the advertiser has asked for and nothing else. Commonly in these you’ll get extensive repetition of phrases along the lines [...]...
 
 
 
 
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