Well finally on Saturday moving day came around, and we are now in our new house as of Saturday night. The weather forecast was as predicted for once - rain all day!   Just the day that you really don’t want it to rain, it does!   Thursday, Friday and even Sunday were nice, but no, Saturday had [...]

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It was back in the early 80′s when a colleague said to me “there is only one way to get anywhere in this world, and that’s to be a one legged black Jewish lesbian!“. He was right of course! It’s the minorities that are eligible for benefits in the UK, not the ordinary people like [...]

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