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Managing Home Renovation Scope and Budget
A great time in the life of a home owner is when all the bills are paid and all the new improvements are done and paid for. No more mortgage to pay each month and the home is up to date with all the latest gadgets and trimmings. But actually, this is a rare scenario of fantasy land for the everyday homeowner, so we have to be a little more savvy with our budget when it comes to home renovations. Celebrate the Accomplishment of Home ownership with Good Decisions Home ownership is a great time in life, having done a great deal of research, searching, dealing for the right home…
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Breathe New Life into nights out
Finding a new partner, or just finding time to date when you have all the responsibilities of family, children and work can be tricky. These days it is much easier to find someone due to the rise in free dating sites, but then finding the time to date can be difficult, and there can also be the financial implication of sharing the cost of your dates and trying to find something to do to please both yourself and your potential partner. No wonder it can seem more hassle than it’s worth! But you can’t be so defeatist. New dating sites are helping more and more people to find love, with…
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Elf The Christmas Spectacular Is Coming To Birmingham!
It is one of the all time great Christmas movies, and then it became a hit West End Show, and now, this year, it has been supersized and is coming to Birmingham. I am of course talking about Elf, the festive favourite that is about to embark on a UK tour and which will see it taking in Birmingham’s Genting Arena.(soon to be renamed Resorts World Arena) Elf is the perfect Christmas entertainment, real feelgood entertainment that leaves watchers feeling all warm and fuzzy inside, and sets the mood for Christmas cheer. The supersized Christmas Spectacular has a stellar cast to bring it to life. Pop legend and all around…
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The Lovely Bones Haunts At The Rep Birmingham
From its shocking opening scene, which brutally depicts the rape and murder of a 14 year old girl, you know that The Lovely Bones is going to be like no other piece of theatre you have ever seen. Based on the best selling novel by Alice Sebold, the central (dead) protagonist of The Lovely Bones, Susie Salmon (like the fish) is one of the most memorable, tragic and yet still spirited characters in modern literature, and, on stage at the Rep Birmingham, she is brought to life with verve and panache by Charlotte Beaumont. The Lovely Bones is set in 1973, a time before mobile phones and the internet, when…
