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Sweet and Sour of Living in the Scottish Highlands

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Living in the Scottish Highlands offers plenty advantages, and more than a few disadvantages.  Quality of life for most is higher than other parts of the United Kingdom, there’s plenty of capacity in the health services, little crime, bearable traffic and weather more clement than you’d think. In June we have 20 hours of daylight. [...]

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Bad Behaviour by Banks and Bankers

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We’ve all been screwed by banks over the years and especially by bad behaviour over the last two, since they got themselves in brown smelly stuff and our governments decided to spend our money digging them out of it. A couple of days ago consumer magazine reported Bank of Scotland coming last in a survey [...]

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Best of the Business Internet August 16th

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It seems everyday there’s more stuff to look at in my RSS Feed and more I want to share with you.  Sometimes its really good stuff and sometimes it’s more of the snake oil from condescending prats which I’ll signal – don’t worry. Sometimes its worth reading that garbage just so we can laugh at [...]

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Bennie Goes Paddling

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Do Bouviers de Flandres swim?  Ours doesn’t and I’ve never heard of a Bouvier swimming.  But he certainly enjoys a paddle, as this short movie shows. Bennie  lives within a few hundred yards of the beach at Dornoch in the Scottish Highlands.  And he gets to walk on that beach every day, usually uninterrupted by [...]

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Panasonic HDC-SD600 CamCorder User Report

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The Panasonic HDC-SD600 Camcorder turns out to be everything I could have hoped for, and a lot more besides.  I’ve now been using it for a week but haven’t got anywhere near understanding the full range of what it’ll do.  I’ve made lots of videos and taken quite a few stills. This camera is just [...]

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Made in Scotland – Comedy Video

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Here’s a short video which will make you smile. OK so its childish, but who cares. We all have a child inside we need to amuse sometimes. Post Footer automatically generated by Add Post Footer Plugin for wordpress. Share on Facebook

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Telco Customer Service is Worst

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Customer Service from the telephone companies is even worse that it is from the banks, in my experience at least. In both cases the business processes leave no room for the flexibility typically required under the label Customer Service. A quest for support or modification of a transaction merely takes the complainer down a dark [...]

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Peugeot 308SW – Owner Report

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How good is the Peugeot 308SW Sport? Here’s my owner report after 2,000 miles. The Peugeot 308SW Sport is a triumphant combination of design and advanced engineering. It offers what seems to me a unique response to market forces driven by environmentalists and governments. Although classified in the small family car segment the 308SW has [...]

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