Archive for January, 2010

Book Review: The Enemy by Charlie Higson

Book Review: The Enemy by Charlie Higson

For Christmas I treated my to The Enemy by Charlie Higson. It tells the story of a world were all adults have become sick and turned in to stupid crazed children-eating monsters. The disease effecting the adults doesn’t effect children under fourteen. You are quickly absorbed in to this world and meet two groups of [...]

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How I was diagnosed with Diabetes

Three years ago today I ended up in hospital and was diagnosed with Diabetes, Type 1 insulin dependant. Here is my story (taken from an old version of my website): Tuesday 30th January 2007 At the weekend mum had sent me a text message to see if I would come and take a look at [...]

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Shopping Home Delivery: Don’t bother with ASDA use Tesco

The other night I had the evening planned. ASDA was delivering the larger-than-normal food shop that I had ordered online. The plan was to chillax – wait for the food order, have tea, a bath, do some reading and then an early night. I had previously used Tesco, who had been reliable and friendly. But [...]

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Echo

I wanted to echo my friend Mike blog post entitled Boring! It’s January and works busy. Not much going on apart from plenty reading and watching my Christmas presents (see Haven’t we done well, this year?). I have no doubt that the up and coming next few months have some adventures in store for me [...]

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Susan Boulet’s Beautiful Artwork

I recently came across Susan Boulet’s Goddesses Knowledge Cards, I instantly loved them. The artwork was beautiful and on the back of each of the goddess card’s was information about that particular goddess. The artwork was inspirational, so I went in search of other artwork Susan has done and found Animal Spirits Knowledge Cards. So [...]

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Book Review: Diamonds are a girl’s best friend by Jenny Colgan

Book Review: Diamonds are a girl's best friend by Jenny Colgan

I originally discovered Jenny Colgan by picking up here book Where Have All the Boys Gone? I loved it and was unable to put it down! So when I saw her latest book Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend in a local supermarket, I couldn’t resist picking it up. The book tells the story of [...]

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Book Review: Book by Whoopi Goldberg

First off I have to say I was disappointed with Book by Whoopi Goldberg. I was expecting to read of Whoopi’s private life, but she kept her private life just that, private. She doesn’t discuss how a black woman, living on welfare became a master comedian and Hollywood movie star. But enough of what she [...]

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Goals for 2010

We are already in 2010 and I know I should have already set my goals, but hey I’ve been busy! So here they are: Health 1. To get my diabetes under better control by testing my blood sugars at least twice a day. 2. To put on weight. (I know most people want to loose [...]

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Living Frugally

After the Christmas period many of us feel the financial pinch. There are two ways essentially in finance to deal with this: 1. increase your income or 2. reduce your expenditure. I’m voting for the latter by attempting to live more frugally. To live frugally means: Frugal Definition adjective not wasteful; not spending freely or [...]

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A review of the 2009 Goals I set Myself

A year ago I wrote myself a list of goals for the year (see Goals for 2009). Some I’ve completed, even exceeded were as some haven’t been met. So let’s have a look shall we? Health – To Improve my blood sugar control, eat better & be generally healthy. Well I had a prolonged period [...]

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