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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 [...]...
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| 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 [...]...
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| 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 [...]...
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| 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 [...]...
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| 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 [...]...
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| 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. [...]...
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| 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 [...]...
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| 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 [...]...
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| 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 [...]...
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| 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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| Looking for a UK payday loan? |
| 2008-02-26 13:06:21 |
If you’re finding that there’s more month left than you have money to pay for it then a payday loan is one possible solution.
These are very popular in America but have only recently reached our shores so you may not have heard of them before.
Basically, a payday loans are short term loans that are intended to be repaid [...]...
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| What’s the best way to learn a language? |
| 2008-02-26 12:39:11 |
After well over 10 years attempting to learn French, Spanish and even a little Greek I can confidently tell you that the answer is: “it depends”.
Consider Greek for instance. I did a six week class on that about 15 or so years ago and that was enough to be able to understand a good deal [...]...
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| Learning French for free |
| 2008-02-26 12:01:31 |
If you’re thinking of travelling to a French speaking country this summer, now is a good time to make a start on getting your French up to speed as, for the most part, French speakers are very, very reluctant to switch to English for you.
There are loads of places online to learn a bit of French and [...]...
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| Eating up the day in looking at new themes for the blogs… |
| 2008-02-26 11:52:12 |
One very easy way to eat up a whole day (or sometimes days) is to start thinking that you’d like a new theme for your blog and then get going on looking through what’s around.
There seem to be thousands of themes knocking around these days and nearly all of them free which makes for something [...]...
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| Considering a nursery for your little ones? |
| 2008-02-26 11:34:59 |
With all the scare stories around these days everyone tries to take that little bit more care in selecting a day nursery for their children.
There are loads of them around these days but one name that I’d not associated with them is BUPA who are, of course, very well known in the healthcare market throughout [...]...
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| Dreadful “English” in sponsored posts |
| 2008-02-26 10:50:42 |
Whilst almost all places listing opportunities for sponsored reviews say something to the effect that they’re expecting good quality English spelling and grammar, it’s becoming increasingly common to see absolutely dreadful grammar being produced by the advertisers themselves.
Consider just a few examples from one recent opportunity which I rejected simply because the English was so [...]...
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| Looking for a sign? |
| 2008-02-25 14:54:00 |
If you’re looking to buy a new sign then Build A Sign has a whole host to choose from.
Unlike those that you’ll find in the shops, their signs are fully customisable so the large list that they have on the site is really a good deal larger when you consider that you can change the wording [...]...
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| Depressing weather |
| 2008-02-25 14:50:10 |
We’ve been having really great weather over the last week or more so it’s all the more depressing that we’re back to what we’d expect to be normal February weather here ie dull and wet.
Funnily enough we’re almost at the end of February and it’s only now that we’re getting the kind of weather that [...]...
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| South Africa - an up and coming destination |
| 2008-02-25 14:31:03 |
Africa">South Africa is a destination that just dropped off the tourist radar for a number of years but it’s one that’s coming back into fashion in a very big way.
Not only is the climate much more appealing to the tourist market but the tourism infrastructure has seen major development in recent years and the tourist [...]...
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| Looking for Wordpress themes… an easy way to waste a whole day! |
| 2008-02-25 13:21:56 |
I thought that it was time I spruced up the look of the blogs that I run so I’ve been looking for a new theme off and on over the last few weeks. Today though was a bit of a marathon session when I picked up over 20 potential themes and am in the process [...]...
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| Thinking about some St Patrick’s Day illuminations? |
| 2008-02-22 15:09:55 |
With Christmas out of the way you might be thinking of some illuminations for St Patrick’s Day but have probably had the first look at the electric bill that all those Christmas lights ran up.
These days there are much more economic alternatives available in the form of LEDs which with lives running to 50,000 hours [...]...
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| Do you REALLY understand English? |
| 2008-02-22 15:00:17 |
The English course that I’m doing started off nice and gradually with a history of the English language all the way back to its origins as a dialect of Frisian and motoring at a fair pace up to the establishment of the colonies and arrival of Colonial English.
Now we’re moving into a section which you’d [...]...
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| Updating the detailing on your bar equipment |
| 2008-02-22 14:47:32 |
Bar equipment is something of a catch-all term and one that’s all but meaningless as the “equipment” itself comes from a whole host of different suppliers which go together to create the look and style that’s, as far as possible, unique to each bar.
Consider, for example, bar & foot rails. These are thing which you’d [...]...
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| Almost the summer? |
| 2008-02-22 14:26:19 |
The weather has taken a distinct lurch for the better over the last week or so and we’re having to go back to just the t-shirts as it’s just too hot outside at the moment for anything else.
Somehow I just can’t see that heat wave holding up but we’re trying to make the most of [...]...
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| Why not install a shower cubicle in your room? |
| 2008-02-22 14:15:36 |
One really impressive and useful way to improve your house is to install a shower in the larger rooms.
Shower Cubicles make the task a very doable one if you’re reasonably competent in DIY and the difference in the room after installation is massive in comparison to the fairly low cost of these. Naturally, all the other [...]...
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| The flu |
| 2008-02-22 13:31:17 |
There haven’t been any posts in the last week or so as I was felled by the flu. Isn’t it amazing how such a seemingly trivial thing can still knock all of us out?
Of course, with the relatively cold weather and the school holidays it’s been working it’s way around everyone over the last week.
Still, [...]...
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| Promoting the blog |
| 2008-02-16 07:51:57 |
Whilst I include most of my sites in an annual site-promotion programme I’m really bad at omitting the blogs from that. Why? Well, because it’s not so easy to promote a blog as most directories aren’t geared up to listing them in a sensible way.
So, now and again, I look around for new places to [...]...
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| What about a cruise to sample a new destination? |
| 2008-02-13 14:27:00 |
There’s such a wide choice of cruises available today that it’s not so much that you choose a cruise and see where it goes but can instead choose where you’d like to go and then find a cruise to match.
That versaility and the fact that the cruise ships stop at numerous ports along the way [...]...
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| Thinking of Yorkshire… |
| 2008-02-13 14:00:17 |
Wendy’s quite keen on Yorkshire though she’s not actually been there and knows it principally through the books of James Herriot.
Normally, the reality of a place is quite different to that which you read about in a book but that’s not the case for Yorkshire. Those rolling dales really are like that and many of [...]...
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| The Californian law blog |
| 2008-02-13 13:29:45 |
It’s very easy for a business blog to degenerate into a series of posts that basically say “buy this now” and so it’s a pleasure to find one that pretty much goes to the other extreme.
Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney Blog | California Criminal Law Forum is the somewhat over keyword-stuffed moniker that it runs under [...]...
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| Targetting the Spanish market |
| 2008-02-13 12:54:30 |
I’ve been trying to build up the representation of properties that I have in Spain by way of sending out an e-mail in Spainish to a number of properties. Now, the sites that I have are basically targetted at an English speaking audience so I need the entries to be in English of course.
What’s interesting [...]...
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| Looking for a spot for a luxury reunion in Spain? |
| 2008-02-13 12:48:31 |
If you’re searching for somewhere to hold a family reunion or simply a get together of your extended family, you’d not go far wrong with this large house in Spain.
It’s called Cazulas and it’s south of Granada so you’ll find that it’s pretty much a year round vacation location. They’re all set up to do [...]...
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| Changing your e-mail address? Have you told the places you advertise with? |
| 2008-02-13 12:41:03 |
Whenever we send out a newsletter to our B&B people, we always get a number of e-mails returned with errors.
Now, in some cases it’s because the owners have sold up and moved on but in surprisingly high number of cases it’s because they’ve changed their e-mail address and not told us. In fact, when you [...]...
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| Cheaper UK car insurance |
| 2008-02-12 14:23:16 |
If you’re looking for cheaper Insurance">car insurance, there are basically five areas where you can alter the cost:
you, in particular your age (older but below 65 is good), sex (female is cheaper) and driving record (no accidents, speeding tickets and so on);
the car, smaller=cheaper by and large;
where you live (OK, not necessarily easy to change);
the [...]...
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| Keeping your dreams alive |
| 2008-02-12 14:16:41 |
Many people move to France to live their dream and why not? If your dream is to live in some idyllic spot in France, who’s to say that you can’t?
Unfortunately, for every one that succeeds in living out their dream of a life in France, there’s another who falls by the wayside and ends up [...]...
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| Isn’t now a crazy time to invest in property? |
| 2008-02-12 12:38:34 |
Everyone who’s read about the subprime debt problems probably figures it’s a pretty crazy time to even think about investing in property.
Except that, just about all the time “everyone” is wrong and in fact it’s close to an ideal time to be investing in property, so long as you are selective about it. For one [...]...
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| What do you do about all the new directories in your SEO efforts? |
| 2008-02-12 12:20:02 |
Many people these days work their way through a short list of the top directories when they’re promoting a new website. For some it’s a very short list: addurl to google and they’re done, for others they either slog away for months or just use one of the manual submission services to do it for [...]...
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| Transferring videos around |
| 2008-01-17 13:16:47 |
There are loads of devices around these days that can display video but few people seem to realise that almost all the devices can display the videos from almost all of the other devices and seem amazed when you can take, say, a video from youtube and play it on a PSP or for that [...]...
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| Looking for a manager for your assets? |
| 2008-01-17 13:05:15 |
It’s easy enough to find someone to sort out your day to day finances when you don’t have a whole lot of savings to play with: the majority of banks can deal with investing reasonable levels of savings or investments.
If you or your family have a major chunk of assets it’s quite a different matter [...]...
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