He has just gotten his first credit card so what would suit him is an rfid blocking wallet; they protect your chip and pin card and guard against fraud as well. Your details cannot be scanned and they work even when folded over. Brilliant idea!

I am still trying to become acclimatised to these northern European winters – not sure that I ever will though – and this weather is not helping. The summers not being warm enough – or long enough – don’t help either. Am I just whining…? yeah – but it’s the weather for it. We are getting more of our rooms double-glazed and new blinds to insulate the house better because parts of the house are like a freezer room.

And what happened on the weekend…? the boiler burst! we are getting to know the plumbers here on a personal basis these days!

EU directives state that it’s citizens can seek treatment outside their home country if ‘undue delays’ cause them hardship – so it is possible for British people to ‘health travel‘ themselves. If you cannot get your hip operation done within a reasonable time in the UK and you are in extreme pain you’re well within your rights to travel to France for the operation and then return home with any receipts to hand over to the NHS…which they MUST reimburse to you.

Making the choice of where to undertake your studies can be a tough one but one such institution for this excellent opportunity is Western Governors University. Funding your online degree can often be the big drawback to taking this step but WGU offer assistance in this area and can provide financial packages designed to get you started. One of the fun parts of university life is the campus life where you get to interact with other students; even studying online means you get to do this and WGU attract a broad range of students from all walks of life – the average age is around 36 but you will find yourself meeting up with fellow students aged anywhere from their 20’s up to their 60’s. The university boasts an impressive alumni which maybe you could find yourself included in one day – make the choice and change your future.

I will be doing alot of my own shopping for Xmas online basically because I do not get much time to get out to the shops on my own, and having several curious kids usually tagging along makes it even more difficult. Once again DVDs are predicted to be the most popular buy with an estimated 50 MILLION sales in the run-up to Xmas with more the unusual items such as buying cigars online making up the more unorthodox end of the market.

There still remains the problem of where to store all these bargains once you have bought them – we have a roof space where we store everything so it looks like we will be telling the kids that the big snake still lives up there looking for mice to eat…works every time.

That’s where the Online master degree programmes come in. Sure you could do your masters part-time but that limits your choice to the local college. With an online programme, the world’s your oyster. Well, in theory at least. The snag is that, at the moment, there are a limited number of top rated colleges offering online programmes and, of course, there’s not much point in choosing outside the top rated colleges.

Funnily enough the reason that many of the top rated colleges don’t offer their programmes online is that they feel that it would diminish the quality of their offerings. However, in practice these online programmes often attract a very high quality group of professionals who a) couldn’t fit in a conventional form of education and b) have extremely high expectations and demands of these programmes.

The team also encountered an adult male, which angrily threw branches as they tried to take photos, and a mother and child. There are an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 orangutans left in the wild, 90 percent of them in Indonesia and the rest in neighboring Malaysia.

They are increasingly under threat due to the diminishing forests and food supply as man raids the forests to produce palm oil.

Just recently we stayed in a hotel where the previous occupants left their mark in the form of pungent perfume smells and the room had not been properly aired. I am not usually allergic to anything but I spent the night sneezing my head off!

Our old JVC does not have knobs and it was the first TV  I had which was fully remote controlled – I prefer the old ‘knob’ variety – simply because if the remote gets broken, or the batteries die, you are stuck.

Now we are having to choose between plasma screens and the new pop up tv which look certainly look great…but look to be a nightmare to learn how to use!

Just looking through their kitchen cupboards was interesting in itself; remember when biscuits came in fancy decorative tins…? yep, she has held onto all of them with some going back forty and fifty years. I am sure they must count as collectors pieces now.

Even the bathroom with it’s ancient bathroom faucets and cast iron bath tub.