Credit Crunch blauegh

A quick update - I've been trying to sell the house for the last 9 months but obviously the current situation isn't helping much and I don't really want to drop the price.  I'm in no hurry so the trip may be postponed a year but it will happen I'm sure!     

September 05, 2008

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Restless nights-searching for a better way to sleep

Lying in bed last night I began to think about…everything. Ironically the only time I seem to be able to arrange thoughts in my head is when I should be dispersing them, throwing them into high wind over a barren sandy desert of sleep. It is such an unfortunate conundrum for someone who loves sleep, could sleep all through the day without a care in the world but as soon as head hits pillow it’s…think, think, think.

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Can you get a good nights sleep? Vote now!

September 05, 2008

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Home improvements by the sea

For several years now my wife and I have been unsatisfied with the size of our kitchen. When we first bought our house we were won over by the beautiful views over the cliffs and out towards the sea and overlooked the size and shape of the interior of the house. Now we have lived in therefore a few years the walls have started to close in and we are overcome with a need for more space. With two teenage daughters, two cats and a dog the ho » READ MORE

August 08, 2008

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Buy to let mortgages as safe as houses?

Buy to let mortgages as safe as houses?



The heavily impending credit crunch has stricken fear into the hearts of almost every aspiring property developer. The only exception according to the Sunday Times Style magazine, being the hedonistic Oligarch offspring buying up converted party pads in London’s Belgravia.



Unfortunately for me, I am not one of the latter.



Of course the super rich couldn’t care less about making a loss. A few million to them » READ MORE

July 14, 2008

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Musings on home..

Home. The word has a sort of cosy feeling, doesn't it? Warm. Comforting. Safe.

Now think about those instances where the word is used not on it's own but in front of another: home dentistry; home brewing; home improvement; home business; Homeland Security; Home Shopping Network; homework. 'Home' begins to take on quite a different set of connotations there, doesn't it? It starts to imply something dodgy, something amateurish, somethin » READ MORE

June 24, 2008

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