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Valentines Survival Guide (or is it?)

Yep it’s here once again and doesn’t it seem once Valentine's Day draws near everywhere you turn all you see are a plethora of the ‘oh so cliché’ "single person survival guides." As a single person, I find this to be a horrendous practice. A survival guide? Really, a "survival guide??" This is supposed to help? Survival guides are for desperate people lost in the wilderness, starving, freezing, and hunted by wild animals. Apparently that's what I and my fellow singletons are to the non-single world: the metaphorical equivalent Bear Grylls!

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Late Night Licences – Are We Missing Out?

Now I know I’ll cause controversy with this article and it’s likely to split opinions like a hot knife through butter, but I’d like to hear your thoughts. I’ll divide the post into two sections; for and against. I’ll pop what I believe to be both sides of the argument, then please add your own comments so we can get a well balanced debate and ‘temperature check’ on this topic.

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A Dollop of Festive Goodness

I’m a self confessed scrooge. Fact. I have been ever since the glitter of Christmas wore off and the myth of Santa was dashed following a midnight stakeout and seeing my parents with a bin liner containing mine and my sister’s presents.....

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The Annual Mind, Body & Spirit Fair

Give it a try, what’s the worst that can happen? Those very words can potentially either become life changing or the last you ever utter... or perhaps nestled in between those two extremities (which is the more likely) sits the possibility that if you don’t give something a go how will you ever know.

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It’s Not All Doom & Gloom

It’s time to smile everyone. I mean it... go on... smile. Ok, what was all that about I hear you cry? Let me explain before you send out the men in white coats… It’s all too easy to get bogged down with the harder side of life all the while forgetting to recognise the great and the good. I read a lot of articles and blogs that as informative and relevant as they are...

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