Lidl experience

Reallised walking into a local Lidl supermarket that you can enter but you can never leave .. unless you walk through the whole store and out through the checkouts. This only happened because i was trying to go back outside to get a trolley. And when you leave – will get a huge car park […]

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Candlemas Day – Midwinter

February 2nd is Candlemas Day, the middle of winter, where winter gives way to Spring. It has also more significant meaning but there is German proverb “The badger peeps out of his hole on Candlemas Day and if he finds snow, walks abroad but if he sees the sun shining he draws back into his […]

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Thailand – Candle Makers story

Thailand is an agricultural country, where in the country, men are farmers and women do not generally have jobs. Their children are either farmers or work in factories in Bangkok. This has changed as handicrafts become more popular in domestic and foreign markets. Many housewives in Thailand make handicrafts from materials available in their local areas; for […]

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Cuadrilla in Balcombe may soon be back – with a higher security fence and three more sites granted Planning Application in Sussex

“The company preparing to frack for shale gas in Lancashire announced (in October 2017)  it was applying for planning permission to test the flow of oil in its exploration well in West Sussex. Cuadrilla drilled the well at Balcombe in summer 2013, attracting three months of protest” Ruth Hayhurst Information about progress of granted Planning […]

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Winter’s Night

Outside, the wind circles and dances round the house and fieldsrain lashes the window panes.Inside, the fire hisses and pops and Fluffy filled with turkeyslumbers under the Christmas tree …sparkling and glittering with lights and baubles Only a thin fox struggles for its footing returning hungrydown the country lane – watched by a lonesome owltoo […]

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