Category: Budget
Free Ideal Home Exhibition Tickets!

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ITEMS HAS NOW EXPIRED AND IS ONLY HERE FOR REFERENCE Grab them while you can. Register HERE and be quick as there are only 10,000 available. Please note these tickets are only valid weekdays after 5, so if you want to go at the weekend there is no benefit. However we’ll do a report for you.

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10% off Sea France Codes

It’s not often enough at present that we can get you discount codes or offers but once in a while we find one ourselves when looking to book the ferry to France. This time it’s nice and simple, when booking our Ferry enter one of the below codes at the booking page and get 10% of the total booking price.

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CONFUSION REIGNS ! I’m heading to France

How is it that we don’t have one agreed set of measurements for the house? It now seems after Dawn looked at the bathroom furniture that I have purchased she thinks my measurements are out and the items aren’t going to fit. No problem we have plans right, after all the architect did finally delivery them. OH that’s right we

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The falling € and its impact.

I suppose it’s about time we discussed the £ in free fall against the € and how it is affecting us and the renovation. On November 5th 2006 we signed our Comprime De Vant and all told including fees we paid €101,000 and we got our mortgage from Credit Agricole at £1 = €1.43. At this rate in GBP the

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A Thank You from us – Google AdWords Results

We just wanted to say THANK YOU!. Our first month with Google AdWords running and you’ve been kind enough to continue clicking the ads you’re interested in and this has earned us $48.10 towards the renovation. I know it’s not a massive amount of money, but with the small amount of content we have here and the repeat visitors it’s

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Travel – Why I hate Ryan Air & love Eurostar

OK I know this is going to be a bit of a rant but we had the unfortunate requirement to fly to Tours rather than take the Eurostar to Paris and the TGV to Nevers and that means flying with dreaded Ryan Air. Now Tours is 3 1/2 hours away from from our house in-fact it’s basically Le Mans and

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The Owl – An introduction

For those that don’t know what “The Owl” is I’ll just have a very quick and simple recap. It’s a device that reads the amount if electricity being drawn from your meter and with the information you enter during set-up ($ or £, cost per kWh, amount of CO2 per kWh produced) it’ll sit in your house frightening the life

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Google Announcement

The small amount of adverts are now live on the site and we’ll be monitoring their content over the next few weeks. To keep the adverts down to a minimum you’ll notice that we have only one set of adverts on the right hand side of the front page and another at the bottom of every post, this is so

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Amazon Books & Links

Just wanted to be open and honest with the links we are going to start using with Amazon. We have decided to start recommending the books we have read or are using and will link from here to Amazon for you to buy them. ALL BOOKS recommended will be used by us and read so this isn’t going to just

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