Sitting in Colletta waiting for the start of tonight’s football (soccer) match against a local team who are half our age is a little nerve wracking!
The Cookham Wanderers are a team of chaps who play football for fun on a Friday evening.  Today we are in a 11 a side match against a team who play [...]

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Tonight we will be eating out at a restraurant in Garlenda.  The Osteria dei Bischeri (Borgata Chiappa, Via Roma) Tel 0182-582599 is down a slope beneath a large sign on the left beyond the far end of the village.
You dine in a large and very beautiful rustic room, served by the owner, Aldo, and his friendly [...]

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I am in the most wonderful location in Colletta, Italy in Massimo’s Restaurant having a wonderful lunch.
Colletta di Castelbianco is a medieval hill-top village restored as an internet e-village. Nestled a few kilometres from the coast of the Italian riviera in the lush green mountainous hinterland of the Pennavaire valley, Colletta was gradually abandoned by [...]

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One of the important tools to use when getting your website or blog listed by Google is a site map.
There are some great tools for doing this using WordPress plugins which are really simple to implement, I personally use Google Sitemaps by Arne Brachhold.
For my other websites I have been using Sitemap generator by Brian [...]

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I have just been playing with a javascript tool for identifying the “geolocation” of the visitors to your site. 
Firstly you have to register with the site to create an account before you can get the script to place on your site. 
Once you have the script on the site it provides you with a [...]

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Star Wars and Dirty Dancing are the films people most love to watch over and over again, according to a poll.
The Star Wars trilogy topped the list of most-watched movies for male film fans and came second on the list for women, the Sky Movies survey said.
MENS’ MOST-WATCHED FILMS

Star Wars trilogy
Aliens
The Terminator
Blade Runner
The Godfather            Source: [...]

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The lawsuit was filed by a District of Columbia administrative hearings judge, Roy Pearson, who has been representing himself in the case.  Pearson is demanding $65,462,500. The original alteration work on the trousers cost $10.50.
The dry cleaners run by Jin Nam Chung, Ki Chung and their son, Soo Chung,  are being defended against this ludicrous [...]

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I have been a big fan of a company called PowWowNow a telephone conference service, you know the type of company you would use if you wanted to do a conference call. 
This week “The Conservation through Conversation Week” they have been donating all their profits to Kew Gardens which is working to save different [...]

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It would appear that there is a huge demand for lawyers in both private practice and in-house, but there is a major shortage of good quality talented lawyers who are available to work. 
This is a market that has not traditionally taken on contractors at the top end of the market.  But there is a [...]

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There is a very funny set of videos about Paul Hunt and his comedy gymnastics on you tube.  Since they will not let you embed these videos you can watch them here.

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