The Swindells Name We've been doing a bit of research into our family trees, and are sharing our findings. Here is what we have discovered about the Swindells family name. (more)
The Brainard Family Name Links: Cecilia Brainard on Wikipedia, and her profile on PAHLBooks.com (Philippine American Literary House). (more)
Driving To The Gym This section is dedicated to oxymorons such as Driving to the Gym. Do you ever wonder why people drive to the gym? I do. I know there are some folks who aren't very mobile and need finely tuned exercise that a gym or ... (more)
Think Environmental: The Green Options Install a wind turbine? Do more recycling? Walk everywhere? Fly less? What's best? It'd be hard to come up with a complete and 100% accurate ranking of the value of each possible action. ... (more)
Transferring money from the US to the UK (more)
Sponsored Skydive My last crazy sponsored event was a tandem skydive! When: Sunday morning, 18 September 2011 Where: Beccles Airfield, Suffolk Who: Me and co-workers at Blurtit.com Why: To raise money for the Kitale School, Uganda (more)
http://www.gaeia.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=186 Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, is to announce a green pension plan for the planet. As part of the Prince’s Rainforests Project, one possibility is for ... (more)
If you want to find out your credit score, you generally have to pay for it. Information about you, held by companies such as Experian, is used to determine whether you are a risky person to lend money to. It's clearly in your interests to ... (more)
The village of Wootton in Oxfordshire has been quietly saving lots of money on home heating oil, and now has had a prime spot on the BBC current affairs programme The One Show. Here is the oil buying piece: Your home is heated by oil ... (more)
Here's a step-by-step guide to becoming a total obsessive in a cycling club. I originally wrote this whilst an active member of the UEA Cycling Club, now defunct. Sign up as a member You've got the right idea: you realise that cycling ... (more)