I wanted to know what paying a £1000 cash lump sum of my mortgage would do to either the Term or the Monthly repayments. I was very suprised to find that £1000 would knock a whole year of the term of my Mortgage. The calculator I used is http://www.jeacle.ie/mortgage/uk/ It’s very nicely done.
I have found this to be the most effective and inoffensive way to block ads. Kudos To Mike. http://www.everythingisnt.com/hosts.html
I am back in VilleFranche de Lonchat now which is half way between Bordeaux and Bergerac. I am afraid to say that Toulouse is not my favorite City. I had a really good night out at an Irish Bar and met some natives of Toulouse who were great guys. I had a wander round the [...]
I bought one of these for the sole purpose of taking a number of books on holiday with me. I had no plans to use it as my main reading medium as I love books too much. However, the more I used it the more in love I have become with the technology. Here are [...]
Whilst read “A Short History of Everything ” by Bill Bryson I got to wondering how each of the elements were discovered. WikiPedia to the rescue. It provides a wonderful periodic table with each element linked to a wiki page containing details. Cost me almost a full days work reading through. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table What suprised me [...]
I am staying at a friends house in Toulouse. He lived in my house for a year 9 years ago. I have only been here a day but it strikes me as yet another city. The center has some beatiful architecture to visit if you are here but nothing that makes the trip worth doing [...]
I have been working non stop with very few holidays or even weekends off for the last 11 years and am now looking for a break. I am not rich so can’t afford to just bunk off. I am selling my house and using the (rapidly reducing) proceeds to convert a 7.5T Iveco 75E15 Truck [...]
Doing a trawl on Google for new wallets I found the Properta SD Wallet I will be ordering one when I get back to England. It is a leather Wallet that holds the usual Cash and Cards but also has a section for a spare Sim Card and a couple of SD Cards. My Laptop [...]
This is one of the photo’s I took on the 23rd Dec. Please note when you click on the above image to view the full size one it will still be zoomed in your browser unless you have a rediculously huge monitor….
This company http://www.fonebank.com/ takes your old Mobile Phones and gives you cash for them. For example my old Nokia E70 got £30 and my original iPhone 8Mb got £105 I find this much easier and convenient than ebay’ing them and certainly better than leaving them in a drawer or binning them.