The Life Blog

        Being told you have only months to live?orAfter blowing all your savings finding out that you're going to be fine?A breast cancer sufferer who thought she was going to die lavished £50,000 on her family - only to be given the all-clear.Suzie Grogan vowed to live each day like it was her last after she was diagnosed with the devastating condition in August 2006.The 47-year-old decided to organise as many things to benefit her family as possible.In just 12 months they spent £10,850 on holidays, ...

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        Wired "I had a tremendously hard time talking to him about everyday things," Speers confesses. Klingon's vocabulary at the time was only about 2,000 words, and it lacked some crucial vocabulary, such as words for bottle and diaper. So Speers found himself using "thing which is flat" for table. "Alec very rarely spoke back to me in Klingon, although when he did, his pronunciation was excellent and he never confused English words with Klingon words," Speers says. &quo...

        The apparently the "Seat design parameters" fail but they don't say why. The g and force numbers look good for the seats. Oh well....

        So we're catching our brother up on Torchwood here at headquarters, and he seemed to like it. There's one poignant scene from series one where the character Gwen states: All these things.... All these things, they're changing me. Changing how I see the world. And I can't share them with anyone.Made me really think. In this show (for those who don't watch....<shame on you>) she's referring to how her life on her job has changed her. How she sees her relationship with her family (her husband...

        A dating elitist web site that prides itself on picking only "beautiful people" for membership says that the British are the worst people in the world, ...

        1) Throwing used condoms on her lawn2) stealing her car keys haranguing her on car parks...

        Life is expensive. There's no doubt. Some of us maintain a better ability for micro-managing cost than the rest of us, but still.... it's not cheap. I'm reminded by this fact each month when we hit a certain week of the month when we have no incoming money, and we have to really watch what we spend. I'm not talking bills here, like mortgage, power, water or cable... I'm talking the money to live. What does it take to facilitate your life for a week?Food alone is a big one. Just making a nice din...