What is it with this current trend for everything that has to be miniaturised? Everything has to fit in the palm of one's hand to be cool which goes to disprove the old adage that big is always better.
We have the Blackberry. Not as you might think - a cute, juicy berry that you stick in your apple pie but actually a mini hand held computer that doubles as a phone (which incidentally also...
Look up the back of the kitchen cupboard, or under the stairs in any house in Britain and you will find a product of industrial design that has been hidden away since its first use. Get someone in the house to admit is was useless and you're on a losing streak.
If the husband bought the gadget it was highly important and absolutely necessary at the time of purchase. Any product of...
Yachting events are often seen as a 'yuppy' event of the rich and famous. Of course, you do have to have a yacht to go yachting in otherwise it's called swimming, and yachts don't come cheap. I was quite impressed when my boyfriend offered to take me out on his yacht but that soon faded when it turned out to be little more than a wooden dinghy. But he was so proud of it.
It seems there is a...
There are many reasons why a person would be taken into care and often very few of these people actually choose this course of action for their own pleasure. Families sometimes place their elderly or disabled relatives into care because they can longer cope with looking after them. This can be due to work commitments are simply the strain of trying to give someone twenty four hour care.
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More than four million people across the UK have been persuaded to take out package current accounts on the promise that they come with a host of benefits. Of course, in true banking tradition, all these benefits come at a cost but with no other choice than this type of account what is a customer supposed to do?
It is assumed that this new trend for paying for a current account will generate...
There is a whole art to buying the right watch for someone, in fact, even for yourself. You can pop down the local market and pick up a cheapy that will probably last you until you bang your fist too hard on the table. There is the slightly more upmarket one that you could pay a few hundred quid for. There is a choice of styles, colours, materials, sizes, the choice is endless.
For the...
Mortgage advice is something that many people will be seeking in this time of economic uncertainty. Having seen five interest rate increases in the last year most repayments have seen an average 135 pounds per month increase. This is not something your average worker can afford.
Unless, that is, you are a company director or chief executive. These lucky beggars saw a thirty per cent salary...
Removal companies have not always been around. Go a little way back in history and most people, once they established a home, would stay there for the rest of their lives. Their children would be born there, sons would bring in their wives to take up residence and their offspring would live there too. The home would then be left to these new families who wouldn't dream of selling up.
Unless...
Pop down your local job centre and trawl through the adverts for cleaners, hod carriers and care assistants and you will soon expect to see the same old jobs thrown up time and time again. Having done this myself it kind of becomes quite repetitive. The same old companies, the same old jobs, the same old pay, advertised week after week.
All that has changed recently. Job centres around the...
Estate agents are closing down at a rate of 150 a week because of the current UK financial crisis. The housing market has slumped and properties are not moving anywhere near the rate that they were in previous years. This means that competition between estate agents to stay afloat is huge and any tactics they can employ to be top of their game should be used.
There are the small scale agents...
