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Penrith is a market town in Cumbria on the M6. Many people pass the town on their way between England and Scotland or the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District. There’s a castle ruin, an unusual Church and loads of tearooms and pubs. If you’re looking for internet access, you can use a cafe on [...]

Well, its been some time since I wrote anything with a webmaster hat on. That’s not because I haven’t been webmastering – far from it – it’s because I’ve been doing so much of it that the last thing I’ve wanted to do it write about it. However, something has cropped up time and again [...]

I read with some consternation the account of a staff journalist at the Guardian who had taken up the challenge of Chinese businessman Wang Hao to live on 100 Yuan (about £10) for a week. The challenge does not include direct debits such as rent or council tax. The writer, Stuart Jeffries, then goes on [...]

Some of you might have already read about our visit to Rosslyn Chapel. After seeing that and becoming totally superstitious, I bought a friend’s story about Rosslyn Glen being haunted and really easy to get lost in. She described a walk with her Mother where they kept following false path and felt really freaked out, [...]

I seem to find that Tesco’s grocery website doesn’t really work for me. I have successfully ordered several deliveries but sometimes I just can’t get the website to work. It is often unavailable and the special offers never work. It seems to crumble under the sheer weight of products and users but it is just [...]

Looking for the cheapest places to live? Assuming that you still earn a normal UK wage, you will want to compare Cost of Living Surveys and Quality of Living Surveys. Mercer, the Economist and some large governmental organisations compile these. We have picked out some titbits of relevant information and put all of the useful [...]

Is it just me or is it not slightly distressing to see a photo of two young men about to be hanged? In a piece about Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian student who has mercifully won his asylum case, the BBC juxtaposed a photograph of two men due to be hanged. Whilst I am grateful [...]

When we spent our year in Australia – until December 2007 – we ended our trip with a gentle enough spell living in the idyllic Adelaide Hills region which, as is only human, we really loved. During that time, we were fortunate to live with and meet some real characters in the wine growing and producing [...]

Following our recent opinion pieces on Phorm, it has come to our attention that on Thursday 10th April, the company posted losses of $32.8 million (£16.6 million) which the it insisted were part of planned investments in infrastructure, people and technology. Last year, Phorm made a loss of $11.6 million -yet somehow they have raised [...]

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