We’ve all been there!  You’re out for a walk with some mates, and you know you’re somewhere, but where exactly are you? You look out for landmarks, signposts (to determine where you are in your landscape) and before long you’ve decided who’s best at map reading and who’s not and what, if any, are the [...]

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Mike on March 25th, 2009

How stressed do you get? More importantly, how does it make you feel?   From a purely non medical perspective, it seems to me that if somebody’s permanently feeling exhausted and in poor health then amongst a long list of possibilities is “bad stress”. I say bad stress, because according to those in the know, [...]

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 There’s a real buzz about right now and it’s the sound of Butterflies strangely enough! I’m not talking about the variety to be found elsewhere in this blog (but please feel free to check them out too). No, the ones I’m talking about are more likely to give you real results, in fact more marketing [...]

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Mike on March 20th, 2009

It’s arrived!   Now, we’d normally have to wait a while longer for the release of a census but not so this time. You see, any particular census (which itself is taken every 10 years) is normally not released until a further 100 years have elapsed, so this one, the 1911 version should have been [...]

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Many firms within the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter undertook wartime work. One such Manufacturing Jeweller was Thomas L Mott Ltd (“TLM”) of Vyse Street.   During the Great War (1914-1918), TLM produced military cap badges and other similar items and although this continued throughout the Second World War (1939-1945), of far greater interest was its work [...]

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Here are some links that may help you, they certainly helped me! Domain names: I used 1&1.com, find them here. Webhosting: For this I used d9.com, find them here. HTML editor & FTP provider: Try NVU and Filezilla. Autoresponder: I used Aweber, find them here. Driving Web Traffic : Try Total Web Traffic. Last but [...]

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Mike on March 10th, 2009

There I was, in Maney Hall Sutton Coldfield (England), listening to whichever local band was playing at the time, and it struck me………..I want to do that!   It was late 1972 early 1973 and I know that because in those days, everything you did was centred on what was in the charts at the [...]

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Mike on March 9th, 2009

Check out this You Tube link. Great music, great hair, great style………….great everything! Paperback Writer written by Paul and Rain by John. Number one both sides of the Atlantic and my favourite Beatles single ever. Ah…1966!

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Mike on March 5th, 2009

Now I’ve got to be careful here! Careful that is, not to fall into that well worn trap of trying to convince everybody that they can do anything they want to do, you know the sort of thing. What’s important is to make sure you live your life according to what you believe in and [...]

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Mike on March 5th, 2009

Dating back over two millennia, Yoga may hold the key to being healthy & happy in these stressful times. In addition, its not unusual for devotees to report increased vitality and concentration, together with firmer, suppler muscles and a reduced dependency on living in the past or for some, in the future.   Yoga is [...]

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