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This Town / City: Beautiful Kenya

After waiting for many lock-down months of red frustration we finally managed to travel to Kenya for a well deserved break. And we were SO lucky to have returned just before the...

  • Author: newname
  • Published: 10 Dec 2021
  • Views: 956

Employment: Are you giving your customers too much choice?

I was interested to read this article by Kevin Sheldrake on the importance of choice. Or more importantly the importance of not having too much choice. It’s odd because the...

  • Author: bossman
  • Published: 30 Nov 2021
  • Views: 1278

Employment: A criminal record check can be discriminatory and not how you think

How a criminal record check can be discriminatory – and it’s not what you think It has become a regular occurrence for employers to conduct pre-employment criminal...

  • Author: bossman
  • Published: 29 Nov 2021
  • Views: 1054

This Town / City: Abu Dhabi

 OK it's not my home town but Abu Dhabi has won a place in my heart During my seven night stay in Dubai, I was keen to explore other emirates, so, I was driven through to...

  • Author: Cara
  • Published: 29 Nov 2021
  • Views: 975

This Town / City: Brighton

  About Brighton Boasting a population of approximately 300,000, Brighton is a metropolitan city which brings together all manner of communities including students from two...

  • Author: Cara
  • Published: 29 Nov 2021
  • Views: 944

Tell or Yell: Getting a doctor's appointment

MAD ! So you have to ring the surgery from 08:00 sharp to get an appointment. I rang at 07:59:30 and got a "The surgery is now closed.." recorded message Ringing straight back...

  • Author: wizz
  • Published: 9 Nov 2021
  • Views: 1352

Employment: CVs – what do people lie about?

CVs – what do people lie about? It’s a bit of an old joke to say that people lie on their CV but it’s one with more than a grain of truth as estimates of CV...

  • Author: bossman
  • Published: 8 Nov 2021
  • Views: 1111

Home & Family: Domestic Abuse 101 - The Night the Police Were Called

I knew something was going to happen that night. I don’t know why. I just had a feeling. I’d been to work as normal, and took the thirty mile drive home, feeling...

  • Author: Deirdre
  • Published: 29 Oct 2021
  • Views: 1125

Home & Family: Domestic Abuse 101 - The New Job

I’d been moaning for a good couple of months that I was bored in the job I was in. He knew I’d long since wanted to be self employed. Doing that was out of the question...

  • Author: Deirdre
  • Published: 28 Oct 2021
  • Views: 1019

Home & Family: Domestic Abuse 101 ........... The first meeting

So, what better place to start than the beginning? I was 23 years old, living in the South East of England (excuse the lack of exact location). I had moved to a new city six...

  • Author: Deirdre
  • Published: 28 Oct 2021
  • Views: 977

Employment: 5 Employee Perks that improve morale and don't cost the earth

Particularly post-BRExit and post-Covid - who are we kidding? Covid seems here to stay but nevertheless - many businesses are struggling with their balance sheets and/or finding...

  • Author: bossman
  • Published: 22 Oct 2021
  • Views: 1081

Beware: PHONE SCAM: "YOUR INTERNET HAS BEEN COMPROMISED"

THERE'S A SCAM GOING ON - I'VE HAD LOTS OF CALLS AN AUTOMATED VOICE TELLS YOU SOMETHING LIKE "THIS IS YOU INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER, YOUR INTERNET HAS BEEN COMPROMISED AND NEEDS...

Popular Culture: LOST-FACE BOOK - THERE IS AN ALTERNATIVE- TELLTRAIL, BUILT FOR PRIVACY

Facebook exploited technology to meet a real social need and consequently enjoyed viral growth. BUT Facebook started life as a "frat gymic" - a way for teen students to achieve...

  • Author: tony
  • Published: 10 Apr 2018
  • Views: 15022

Popular Culture: SHAME ON FACEBOOK

Yet again, Facebook is revealed as a "very sorry" social media platform for anyone - as we should all be - concerned about privacy Facebook now estimates that 87 million of...

Leisure: Fallout 4 vs Skyrim

These kind of "built by level" games are fun the first time you play them, I think, But once you haveplayed thru a mission that's all there is to learn, Next time you start a new...

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Leisure: Arma3 mod Exile

For years now I have hosted private servers for the ARMA series of games by Bohemia Interactive Studio.We as a group really loved the mod of Arma2 that was Dayz Epoch and had many...

Social Issues: If dogs can detect drugs in airport luggage why not in prisons?

We keep hearing how prisoners are off their heads on drugs, running up large debts to in-house drug barons and presenting a danger to themselves, to each other and to the prison...

  • Author: boffin
  • Published: 16 Nov 2016
  • Views: 3273

Health & Welfare: Drugs: Why fight a war with no chance of victory?

It's a well-established principle of modern society that outlawing anything just creates a highly lucrative black market economy in whatever commodity was banned. Government of...

  • Author: pawel
  • Published: 15 Nov 2016
  • Views: 3571

Politics & Belief: Trump - "YOU'RE HIRED!" - Reality TV goes to Washington

Donald Trump is the next President of the USA So many across the world would have bet their shirts against that and yet the American People have spoken. Trump talks of it being...

  • Author: tony
  • Published: 15 Nov 2016
  • Views: 12213

Humour: Sky News Today: "A Man Dies After Falling Into Yellowstone Hot Spring"

A man has died after falling into a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park in the US state of Wyoming. Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, of Portland, Oregon, was with his sister and had...

  • Author: soapboxjohn
  • Published: 9 Jun 2016
  • Views: 3353