Mortgage Lending Up In March

by Wayne 19 April 2010

Gross mortgage lending was an estimated £11.5 billion in March, a 24% rise from £9.3 billion in February and a 3% rise from £11.2 billion in March 2009, according to data published today by the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). This is in line with the typical seasonal pattern of a rise in lending volumes [...]

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My 10k Training Set Back

by Wayne 2 March 2010

I haven’t been able to do any running over the past week because I somehow managed to hurt my knee last Tuesday. I was on the treadmill and after about 18 minutes me left knee started hurting. After 20 minutes I had to stop as it was getting quite painful and I didn’t want to [...]

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Return To Monkey Island

by Wayne 2 March 2010

So, following on from my previous post about Sky, they haven’t completely done what I asked after all. A couple of days ago I received two letters. One letter saying that Sky were making some changes to contracts and that currently you could downgrade packages whenever you want as long as you had had them [...]

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People Offering SEO Services

by Wayne 20 February 2010

An post to people offering SEO services I received an unsolicited email (SPAM) this morning from someone offering me their SEO services for one of my websites. The website they were referring to was my site for Sister Act Tickets. The email said, in a nutshell, that they have looked at my site, like the [...]

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10k Training Plan

by Wayne 20 February 2010

I have been advised by a number of people not to complete my 12 week training plan for the 10 mile run early. At week 8 of the training plan I am supposed to do a 10k run so I have entered the Flitwick 10k – a 10k run in Flitwick, Bedfordshire. So what I [...]

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How Many Monkeys

by Wayne 17 February 2010

How many monkeys does it take to activate Sky+? Nearly three weeks ago now I went away on holiday for a week. I was due to leave the day that the new series of Lost started on Sky1 which was also three days before the new series of 24 started, also on Sky1. Up until [...]

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Running for Charity Fundraising

by Wayne 17 February 2010

I have decided to do a 10 mile run in July – the New Forest 10 – and am doing it to raise money for JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation). The reason for doing a run of any significant distance at all is because I decided I needed a target or goal to motivate my [...]

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GP Wizard Karting 2010

by Wayne 20 January 2010

A few days ago I attended the GP Wizard karting competition at Teamworks Karting in Birmingham. This was the second year running that the event has been held (both times at this venue) and this year I actually got the drive. Last year I only spectated as I was nursing a kidney stone but that’s [...]

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SEO Services

by Wayne 9 January 2010

Since moving this site over to the new domain I have been getting quite a few people using the contact form to offer me their SEO services to get my site on the front page of Google. If you are thinking of doing this, think again. Look up. On the screen not literally. Look underneath [...]

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Clay Pigeon Shooting

by Wayne 6 January 2010

A few days ago during the Christmas break I went clay pigeon shooting for the first time with my Brother-in-Law. I borrowed first my Sister-in-Law’s gun and then my Brother-in-Law’s (Beretta), both of which were 20 bore, although the Brother-in Law does own a 12 bore as well. It was a bit of a cold [...]

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