Day: 21 April 2017

How to make the best use of £1 million

In 2010, the lottery fund of UK gave £1 million over a period of 10 years to Radstock and an adjacent part of the town - Westfield "to make a difference to the lives of the people living here" Many activities take place, but at least once a year they have a Dragons' Den type of evening and tonight was such a night in the newly refurbished Radstock Hall. Three local business people were in the...

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is there life without a mobile phone?

I suppose I've got used to it now, glancing at it every 10 min or so to see if there is a message. I think it's actually a bad habit, and slightly sad. Not only was my phone stolen but my old one that I wanted to rely on gave up the ghost site by new phone and what  better place than eBay. I think I paid about £35 altogether including postage. It is a similar Nokia but not exactly the same but...

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contacting companies by telephone drives me mad

The general enquiry number of the cooperative bank has four choices none of which involve speaking to a human being. some clever company has come along and said that you can save 20% of your operator charges by automating the system. What they have said is that you annoy 50% of your customers by having such a system in the first place. It annoys me that none of the four alternatives given about...

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