For quite a few years we have done the traditional thing and purchased a chocolate advent calendar. we would take turns to open a day and have the chocolate. This year we decided to do something different. Mainly because we forgot to get a chocolate advent calendar for the office. We searched and found a printable calendar from kaboose. There are two versions, one for [...]
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We are all aware, or should be aware, of the changes happening in the world climate, melting polar ice caps and all that is related to global warming. But I can’t believe how much it has rained in the ( north of the ) UK this last couple of months. It’s meant to be summer, even [...]
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GameInstitute has announced a new Introduction to Robotics course which runs for a period of 8 weeks and is aimed at a beginner level.
If you are a beginner programmer looking to learn a first language, a programmer who wants to learn basic electronics or a robot enthuast who want to build your first robot then this course is [...]
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Reported on Sky news: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1251530,00.html
A 70 year old welsh pensioner has recently married a 43 woman from Southern China. They made contact after he responded to an advert in a local paper for Chinese women looking for western husbands.
He doesn’t speak hardly a word of Mandarin and she doesn’t speak hardly a word of English, not exactly [...]
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In Manchester they have put automatic bollards around the city centre to prevent vehicles entering streets they shouldn’t. The bollards are up by default and lower when either a bus or a post office vehicle approaches, there are some people who think they can follow buses sneak in behind them through the bollards. I have one [...]
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