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"In the immediate aftermath of Brexit I was of the opinion that it would be the developers and vendors who decided where the market headed next. As it turned out, this was partly correct, but what I probably underestimated was the demand from foreign buyers, fuelled by the devaluation of Sterling. So in many ways it's currently a story of two markets.
Any foreign buyer who has had one eye on the London market over the past 12-18 months is now using a combination of the currency play and the fact that developers are more open to discounts than they were pre-Brexit to their advantage, and in some instances seeing prices of 20%-30% below what was previously being achieved.
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However domestic buyers, who aren't able to take advantage of the currency situation in the same way, and are also not as focussed on 'lock up and leave' amenities that a new build development offers, are using the traditionally quiet summer period to take stock of the situation. With mortgage rates continuing to be at an all-time low, and a stable political situation now in place with a new PM and cabinet, things are looking far less uncertain than they did in the week which followed the announcement that Britain had voted to leave the EU. I see the domestic market returning in September, in an arena still characterised by a lack of good quality second hand stock.
All that said, we did lose some deals in what I would now consider as a knee jerk reaction to the news, but have been pleasantly surprised with how these deals have been replaced. For example at The Villas W9, we had four deals under offer pre-Brexit. Post Brexit, we lost two, but two have exchanged and two new deals have been agreed.
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As far as off plan properties being sold at below what people paid for them, I haven't personally experienced this, and it would seem a little hasty when borrowing rates are so low, and rental demand for buyers priced out of London remains steady. Ultimately if you have confidence in the product you're buying, and aren't simply trying to make a quick turn, then London property is just about as stable and vanilla and investments come.
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Mar 13, 2009
An Olmsted County
Judge sentenced a Minnesota man to life in prison with
no possibility of parole for killing a father and son in
their home in Waseca, Minn. in 2007.
Friday, a jury
found Michael Zabawa, 26, guilty on all 12 felony counts,
including two first-degree murder counts, in connection
with the shootings.
The courtroom was
packed with relatives and supporters of the Kruger
family as the jury foreman read the verdict. Zabawa's
aunt and uncle were also there. They have attended the
entire trial.
Jurors got the case
Thursday evening and deliberated for about 4 hours. They
resumed deliberations Friday morning and reached a
verdict within an hour of meeting. The jurors were
sequestered in a hotel overnight.
Judge Joseph
Bueltel began the sentencing hearing shortly after the
Bueltel sentenced
Zabawa to two consecutive life sentences, with no
possibility of parole for the Feb. 3, 2007, shooting
deaths of Tracy Kruger, 40, and his son, Alec, 13.
Zabawa was also
sentenced to 216 months for shooting and injuring Tracy
Kruger's wife, Hilary.
During the trial,
jurors watched a videotape of state Bureau of Criminal
Apprehension agents interrogating Zabawa five hours
after the shootings. In the first three hours of the
interrogation, Zabawa denied entering the Krugers' home,
but eventually said he went in, looking for help after
his truck got stuck in a ditch outside.
Zabawa said after
he entered the house, he was confronted by Tracy Kruger
in the hallway of the second floor. He said the two
struggled and Tracy Kruger pumped the gun.
"That's when I
turned around and grabbed it, grabbed it so he wouldn't
do anything," Zabawa said to investigators. "Then I got
it away from him and it went off."
Zabawa said that's
when he went downstairs to leave. He said he saw the
Kruger's 13-year-old son, Alec, when he dropped the gun
and it went off again.
"I didn't know it
hit him," he said.
At that point,
Zabawa said he left the house and stole the Kruger's SUV.
Hilary Kruger also
testified during the trial.
She told the jury
she was shot first as she lay sleeping with her husband.
She said Tracy Kruger tried to pull the mattress up to
protect them, only to be shot. He fell to the floor, she
said, and "he was not responding in any way and I could
see his face was speckled."
She told jurors how
she watched as her son was also killed.
Jurors heard a 911
call for help from Alec Kruger. Throughout the call,
Hilary Kruger could be heard moaning in pain in the
"Please come to our
house. I don't know what's wrong, but something is
happening. Someone's been shot, please hurry, please
hurry," Alec Kruger said during the 911 call. He had
time add that his mother and father had both been shot
before another shot rang out and the line went dead.
Hilary Kruger also
testified she could not identify the shooter because it
was dark, saying she only saw the silhouette of a tall,
thin person wearing a winter hat and holding "a long gun
like a rifle or a shotgun."
The trial was moved
to Olmsted District Court because of pretrial publicity
in the Waseca area.
Evidence comes to light at hearing
Bloody clothes, hair,
keys among investigators' finds
By Dan Nienaber -
September 15, 2007
Bloody clothes and shoes investigators say they found in
Michael Zabawa's bedroom in February are among a list of
things Zabawa's attorneys want kept from a jury.
There were blood-stained gloves and clothing, including
a jacket that had been stuffed behind a shelf, Waseca
County Deputy Doug Gerdts said during testimony at a pre-trial
hearing Friday. A pair of shoes with treads matching the
tracks left near the Kruger house south of Waseca and
between a stolen pickup and Zabawa's mobile home in
Matawan were found in the bedroom's closet.
A hair
investigators suspected belonged to one of the victims
and a set of keys matching the make of the stolen pickup
outside also were taken from the room during the search,
Gerdts said.
He was the
deputy in charge of getting several search warrants
approved by a judge after three members of the Kruger
family were found shot in their home on Feb. 3.
Tracy Kruger,
40, and his son 13-year-old son, Alec, were dead when
the first deputy arrived minutes after Alec called 911.
Hilary Kruger, Tracy's wife and Alec's mother, is still
recovering from the wounds she received in the shooting.
The Krugers' younger son, Zak, was staying at a friend's
house the night of the slayings.
Outside the
house, Zabawa's truck was found in one ditch and a truck
owned by the Krugers was found in another ditch. A
pickup truck from a neighbor's house had been stolen.
Zabawa, 25, became a suspect after investigators went to
his mobile home in Matawan. They found the stolen truck
nearby and tracks leading to Zabawa's front door.
team of attorneys is questioning whether information
from some of the searches that were done, and the
statement that Zabawa gave to police before he was
arrested, should be admissible at trial.
Funk, Zabawa's lead attorney, also has requested a
change of venue, something Assistant Minnesota Attorney
General William F. Klumpp said he wasn't going to
challenge. It would be hard to argue that the murders,
which have resulted in both community outrage and
support for the survivors, haven't had an impact on any
potential jury pool that could be drawn from Waseca
County, Klumpp said.
requested the trial be moved to Duluth, or at least a
location north of the Twin Cities, because the murders
have garnered the heaviest media coverage in southern
Minnesota. Klumpp argued that Rochester would be better
because it's far enough away from Waseca, but close
enough to be accessible for witnesses.
During the
hearing that lasted all day Thursday and stretched
through Friday morning, the two teams of attorneys
questioned Michael Anderson of the Minnesota Bureau of
Apprehension and Waseca County detective Trevor
Kanewischer. They were the investigators who interviewed
Zabawa after the murders.
Zabawa had
been brought to Waseca's city offices for questioning
after he was found at his home the morning of Feb. 3. He
wasn't officially arrested until after noon that day.
According to
transcripts and recordings of the interviews, Zabawa
never asked for an attorney. During the hours of
questioning, he eventually admitted to going to the
house to ask for help, then shooting Tracy during an
altercation before accidentally shooting Alec and Hilary.
testified Hilary told investigators she was the first
victim shot. She said Tracy was shot next while trying
to block the blast with a mattress and Alec was shot
after he called 911, Anderson testified.
Raj Saker
and James Martin, Zabawa's two other attorneys,
repeatedly asked Anderson and Kanewischer if Zabawa
would have been free to leave before he was arrested.
They were building on their argument that Zabawa was
coerced into giving the statement.
investigators hesitated to directly say Zabawa was in
their custody but did acknowledge they joined Zabawa
during trips to the bathroom and outside to smoke a
Michael Zabawa
Charged with 6 Counts of Murder
July 2, 2007
(KAAL) --- The man accused of killing two members a
Waseca family has been charged with six counts of first-degree
According to published reports a
Waseca County grand jury issued a 12-count indictment
against Michael Zabawa.
That includes six counts of first-degree
murder in the deaths of 40-year-old Tracy Kruger and his
13-year-old son, Alec of Waseca.
The grand jury listened to testimony
from Wednesday until this morning.
After deliberating for about 90
minutes, they returned with the 12-count indictment.
Lessons learned in
girl's slaying helping Waseca area deal with Kruger
The break-in that left
two dead reminded many of Cally Jo Larson's death in
1999. In some ways, it moved the community to action.
By Warren Wolfe
- Star Tribune
February 11, 2007
WASECA, MINN. - It was
a horrendous murder, an intruder breaking into the house
and leaving a path of destruction and grief in his wake.
That was almost eight
years ago, and the people of Waseca wrapped their arms
around Connie Larson and her family after a burglar
raped and killed her 12-year-old daughter, Cally Jo.
Now, the community
faces a similar heartache. Nine days ago, an intruder
entered a rural home just outside Waseca, shooting to
death Tracy Kruger, 40, and his son Alec, 13 -- like
Cally Jo, a seventh-grader.
"It's all happening
again -- terrible sorrow and confusion and rage.
"People here are
enfolding that family with love and concern. Waseca
learned how to do that because of Cally Jo," Larson said.
The Krugers' funeral
will be held Tuesday. Kruger's wife, Hilary, 41, remains
in critical condition. A second son, Zak, 10, was not at
home at the time of the shootings.
Michael Zabawa, 24, a
farmworker living about 15 miles south of the Kruger
home, has been charged with second- degree murder.
Larson attended Zabawa's arraignment last week.
"When I heard the news,
I was right back there -- April 20, 1999 -- living in
fear, anger, confusion. For a few days it was awful,"
said Larson, a social worker with Minnesota Valley
Community Action working with low-income clients.
"Right now, the Kruger
family really can't function," she said. "For now, all
they can do is breathe in and breathe out."
After the Kruger
killings, school, church and community leaders "immediately
knew what to do," Larson said: "Protect the family, help
the children and give us all a way to show we care."
The day after the
shootings, pastors at Grace Lutheran Church, where the
Larsons and Krugers are members, called in classmates of
the Kruger children to help them talk about the horrific
"The community is
reeling right now, just as we were after Cally Jo died,"
said the Rev. Roger Haug, Grace Lutheran's senior
He is ministering to
Kruger relatives. "We're concentrating on them and on
the children in the community," he said. "But adults,
too, are meeting in small groups to talk about our fears,
our anger and how important we are to each other."
School officials
pulled out their "Cally Jo" file and met the day the
Krugers died, preparing to help students last week.
Round Bank in Waseca set up a Tracy Kruger Family
Benefit Account, collecting donations and letters for
the family.
Some financial support
may come from the Cally Jo Children's Fund, set up by
Larson primarily to help crime victims and their
families. Since 2000, the fund has given out $34,150.
"We do learn from past
tragedies like Cally Jo's death," said Patrice Abbe,
executive director of the Waseca Area Foundation, which
administers the fund. "I think we're better prepared. We
know more about what to do and what not to do -- but
that doesn't make it any easier.
"Being able to take
action helps, but it's still such a shock. You don't
ever recover."
From Cally Jo's death,
law-enforcement officials learned how to better protect
the Kruger family, said Brad Milbrath, chief deputy at
the Waseca County Sheriff's Office, which is
investigating the killings.
"It's difficult to
shelter the family because the press and all their
friends want to talk with them," he said. "Maybe someday
they'll want to talk, but not now. It's a big family,
and right now they're pretty distraught."
Moving through
It will take several
years for relatives and friends of the Krugers to begin
feeling "sort of normal," Larson said. "Our first two or
three years we just went through the motions. We were
After Cally Jo died,
police briefed Larson regularly, through the arrest of
Lorenzo Sanchez 10 months after Cally Jo's killing, as
well as his confession and guilty plea a year later.
For Larson, becoming
an activist helped. She worked for successful passage of
tougher state penalties for sex offenders and a system
to track them. Since 2001 she has served on the
Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission.
Larson also joins
counselors helping schoolchildren in other communities
after suicides or other deaths of classmates.
Her daughter Contessa,
29, is attending college and raising a 12-year-old son
in Rochester.
And daughter Jayme,
24, who at 16 found Cally Jo's body that day in 1999,
graduated from college in criminology and psychology.
She has worked with victims of crime and domestic abuse
in Duluth and plans to marry this summer, then go to
Africa with the Peace Corps.
Guilty plea is
called helpful
"I still have people
who recognize me as Cally Jo's mom, and I'm proud of
that," Larson said. "But I feel like I'm turning some
sort of corner with my life."
What might help the
Kruger family most in coming months would be admission
of guilt by the killer, Larson said.
"The pain will not end.
The loss can't be undone. But hearing the guy take
responsibility, express remorse -- realize that he gets
it, that he did something terrible -- that's what helped
me start to heal," she said.
"For now, all we can
do is support the Kruger family, be really good
neighbors for each other and hug our kids."
charged in Waseca murders
February 6, 2007
A Matawan
man was charged Monday with murdering two people and injuring a third
with a shotgun after breaking into their rural home.
S. Zabawa, 24, was charged in Waseca County District Court with two
counts of second-degree intentional murder. Bail was set at $2 million.
Zabawa is
accused of breaking into the home of Tracy and Hilary Kruger early
Saturday morning and killing Tracy Kruger, 40, and his son, Alec, 13.
Hilary Kruger, 41, was wounded in the upper torso and remains in
critical condition at North Memorial Hospital.
to a criminal complaint, Zabawa entered the Kruger home after his pickup
truck got struck in a nearby ditch.
told police that Tracy Kruger confronted him with a shotgun after he
entered the home and that Kruger was accidentally shot during a struggle
for the weapon, the complaint says.
He also
said the gun accidentally discharged and wounded Hilary Kruger and then
went off again after he dropped it, striking Alec Kruger.
Kruger gave investigators a different account of what happened. She says
she told her son to call 911 after her husband had been shot, and that
the shooter went downstairs and came back upstairs to shoot them.
medical examiner says both Tracy and Alec Kruger died of multiple
gunshot wounds.
lives with his family in Matawan, about 15 miles from Waseca. His mother
tells KARE 11 she's shocked by the allegations and her thoughts are with
the Kruger family.
criminal history includes a gross misdemeanor theft conviction and two
DWI charges.
At Waseca
Junior High School, most of Monday was dedicated to Alec Kruger.
Students made hundreds of posters with messages to Alec, and they
created a memorial around his locker.
difficult because when you deal with 7th and 8th graders, everybody
grieves in a different way," says principal Bill Bunkers.
To help
them grieve, students were encouraged to express themselves.
got to get your emotions out and talk with others," says Steve Luther, a
Waseca police officer and school liaison officer.
Kruger's other son was not home at the time of the shooting.
Snowmobile races at this weekend's Sleigh and Cutter Festival on Clear
Lake in Waseca will be held in memory of Tracy and Alec Kruger.
The Krugers
helped organize those races each year.
Farm worker held in
slayings of family in Waseca
Authorities said the
suspect's statements "put him in the house" at the time
of the killings near Waseca of 2 family members.
By Anthony Lonetree and
Joy Powell - Star Tribune
February 06, 2007
WASECA, MINN. -- The man
arrested in the shooting of a couple and their
13-year-old son early Saturday near Waseca, Minn., did
not know the family, authorities said Sunday afternoon.
Husband and father Tracy
Kruger, 40, and Alec Kruger, 13, were killed when an
intruder broke into their farmhouse shortly before 3:30
Hilary Kruger, 41, wife
and mother, remained in critical condition Sunday at
North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, according
to authorities and friends.
Investigators identified
the suspect as Michael S. Zabawa, 24, of Matawan, Minn.,
who worked at a hog farm in Waseca County. Chief Deputy
Sheriff Brad Milbrath said Zabawa "gave us statements
that put him in the house."
Milbrath said the suspect
got his pickup truck stuck in a snowy ditch in front of
the Krugers' home.
He then stole the Krugers'
Ford Explorer to try to pull out his pickup, but again
became stuck.
At some point, Milbrath
said, the suspect broke into the Krugers' house, where
Tracy Kruger confronted him.
Authorities had said
Saturday that Alec Kruger called 911 at 3:23 a.m. to
report an intruder. The dispatcher heard gunshots and
the line went silent.
The three victims were
shot on the second floor of the house, Milbrath said.
Preliminary indications
are that the shotgun used belonged to the Krugers, he
said. Hilary Kruger was shot in the upper torso;
Milbrath wouldn't say where the others were shot.
The Krugers' youngest son,
Zak, a fourth-grader, was spending the night at a
friend's house and now is with relatives, authorities
They wouldn't say anything
about a possible motive, whether anything was taken from
the house or whether the suspect was drunk or high.
The arrest stunned
Zabawa's employers and co-workers on the Woodville
Township hog farm.
Peter Zimmerman, an owner
of the family farm, said Zabawa was a responsible and
skilled swine technician who had worked at the farm
since July, caring for newborn piglets. Zabawa was
mechanically inclined and was willing to stay late to
fix whatever needed it, Zimmerman said.
"He was an ordinary, run-of-the-mill
guy who showed up on time, did the work, did a good job,
got along with his co-workers, and was just kind of a
quiet guy," Zimmerman said. "We didn't have any reason
to think badly of him."
He said he never saw
indications of mental problems or violence in Zabawa.
"It really is out of
character," Zimmerman said.
"Both my wife and my
daughter have worked with him in the past at my
operation," Zimmerman said. "They've never had any
problems with him, had no trouble working with him. We
have quite a few employees, and there was never anything
about him that was brought to my attention, or that
would really give me reason to worry."
At a news conference
Sunday, Milbrath said the suspect went to the Krugers'
neighbor's house and stole an old farm pickup, which he
drove to his home -- about 15 miles from the Krugers'.
Authorities traced the
pickup truck in the ditch outside the Krugers' home to
the suspect and took him into custody about 7:30 a.m.
Saturday. They also found the Krugers' neighbor's truck,
and got a warrant to search it.
Milbrath said the
suspect's previous offenses include mostly traffic
violations and a gross misdemeanor theft charge.
The investigative reports
will be turned over to the Waseca County attorney's
office today for charges.
From the opening prayers
Sunday morning at Grace Lutheran Church in Waseca, the
tragedy was revisited often by the Rev. Roger Haug,
senior pastor, and the Rev. Dan Doering, the church's
associate pastor, who rewrote his sermon to try to
answer the question: "Why does God let this happen?"
Doering said he hasn't
slept since he heard the news, and he was still at a
loss. "I need to say, I don't know why stuff like this
But what he did know, he
said, was that "Tracy will rise again. Alec will rise
again. We will see them again."
Haug said that he'd talked
to Hilary Kruger's boss earlier in the day, who told the
pastor that Hilary "was alert -- or at least awake."
Haug later said he'd
learned that a doctor had said Saturday that the first
24 hours would be essential to Hilary's recovery, and
that if she did survive it would be a "miracle."That's
occurred," Haug said. "It's a miracle. She's alive."
Tracy Kruger's former
vocational-education teacher, Ward Ask, was at church
Sunday morning. He was remembered as a "tremendous kid"
who turned into a tremendous man.
Ask said he's taught
hundreds of kids, yet maintained connections to only a
dozen or so former students and was proud to count Tracy
among them.
Tracy Kruger and his
brother, Tony, who is a member of Grace Lutheran, co-owned
a construction company.
Before that, Tracy Kruger
ran an auto body shop near Waterville, Ask said. Four
years ago, Ask's son had gotten in a minor car accident,
and Kruger patched the car up.
Sensing that Ask's son,
then a college student, might be short on money, Kruger
refused to take any payment for the work, Ask said.
"Fixed it for free," Ask
said. "That's just the kind of guy he was."
Tom Anderson of Byron,
Minn., had known Tracy Kruger for the past couple of
years. Both were snowmobile aficionados and Kruger knew
everything there was to know about vintage snowmobiles.
Anderson said of the
family, "I've never seen a group of people who got along
so well together. This guy was just so easygoing; took
the time to talk to his family; never loud, never pushy.
"I'm extremely shocked,"
Anderson said of the shooting. "It really hits home, you
know, the old cliche, the good die young."
Suspect charged
in Waseca double murder
February 5,
Waseca, Minn. — (AP) - A
southern Minnesota man charged
Monday with killing a father and
his son and injuring the mother
of the family said the slayings
were accidental and happened
after he was confronted by the
father, who he said was wielding
a shotgun.
Michael S. Zabawa, 24, of
Matawan, was charged in Waseca
County District Court with two
counts of second-degree
intentional murder. Bail was set
at $2 million.
Zabawa is accused of breaking
into the rural Waseca home of
Tracy and Hilary Kruger early
Saturday morning and killing
Tracy Kruger, 40, and his son,
Alec, 13. Hilary Kruger, 41, was
wounded in the upper torso and
remained in critical condition
Monday afternoon at a Twin
Cities hospital.
According to a criminal
complaint, Zabawa admitted that
he broke into the Kruger's rural
home but said Tracy Kruger
confronted him with a shotgun
and that Kruger was accidentally
shot during a struggle for the
He also said the gun
accidentally discharged and
wounded Hilary Kruger and then
went off again after he dropped
it to flee, striking Alec.
Police believe the shootings
happened after Zabawa's vehicle
went into the ditch and became
stuck outside the Kruger home.
Zabawa went to the Kruger
residence, got into their SUV
and tried to pull his vehicle
out of the ditch, but when that
didn't work he went into the
house, where he was confronted
by Tracy Kruger, the complaint
Hilary Kruger, however, painted
a different picture for police,
according to the complaint.
She told an officer that her
husband was shot by a tall, thin
man with a long gun and that she
told Alec to call police after
her husband was shot upstairs.
She said the shooter then went
downstairs and then came back up
again and shot her and Alec, the
complaint said.
Another officer who responded to
the 911 call found a shotgun
leaning against an upstairs
bedroom door and spent and
unspent shotgun shells littering
the floor at the top of the
He found Alec dead in a bed
while Hilary Kruger also lay on
a bed, critically wounded. Tracy
Kruger was found dead on an
upstairs floor.
Zabawa was arrested hours later
at his home in Matawan.
Zabawa was charged with
shoplifting in 2001 in Freeborn
County and drunken-driving in
Steele County in 2004 and Waseca
County in December 2006. In
2004, he was convicted of felony
theft and criminal damage to
property in Lake County,
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Can your water break without lossing your plug? It hasnt happened to me but I was just thinking about it today and thought I would ask. Thankx so much.
Im really not sure Ang. My water never broke on its own, they did it at the hospital for me. I did lose my plug tho.. that was an odd thing lol.
I'm not sure. It seems counter-intuitive though. Maybe you don't have to lose it beforehand, but it should come out when your water breaks.....
But I don't know for sure.
I never saw my plug, so I don't know when I lost it. But I DO know when my water broke, just like one of those big gushes in the movies. I can't tell you about a slow leak, but you'll definitely know when it "breaks." It was hands-down the yuckiest thing about going into labor for me, it's the thing I remember the most. :lol:
You can lose your plug in pieces, so it's possible that you wouldn't ever notice among all the other discharge and stuff you have at that point.
and if you haven't lost your plug when your water breaks, I'm sure the gush of fluid would push it out.
I agree though, it is really gross when your water breaks. I always had mine broken for me during labor, but I definitely felt grosser afterwards.
with my ds, i lost my plug a few days before i actually had him, water broke when i was pushing.
with dd, i never saw my plug, but my water broke at my moms house.
with one of my losses, my water broke at 14 weeks....never saw a plug, delivered at 16 weeks.
Did anybody else have a slow leak? I'm interested to hear how that feels.
One of my nurses said that that was very normal. She said "Oh, you'll continue to leak fluid until you're completely done with the whole thing."
My best friend had a slow leak. She said it was like when she was on her period. Sort of a constant wet with little gushes. Probably the same as after the initial gush when it breaks.
:lol: really yall thought it was gross? once again,.... im always on that other side of the fence lol. Maybe because it was the final thing for me when they broke my water but i was sooooo excited. It just felt like a warm gush, i thought it was cool :blush:
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People who inspire
Our emergency services are sometimes described as angels. Following the fatal accident in Cheltenham, it was reported that passers-by have praised the emergency services who attended the scene and tried so hard to help Anna Rys. Also recently at the Houses of Parliament attack, doctors bravely ran towards the scene, knowing how dangerous it might be for them. We are so lucky to have these people serving the community every day, putting the lives of others before their own.
Someone else who has been an inspiring person in his own individual, eccentric way is Dancing Ken. If you have been in Cheltenham a while you are bound to have seen him. Ken created his own style and stuck to it - a bright, quirky, friendly and much loved man who over the years is believed to have raised close to a million pounds for charity. He was a great supporter of Cheltenham's animal shelter and a lover of live music who also got involved in politics, standing for parliament in the 2005 general election. I have a feeling that wasn't such a silly idea and he'd have been a more considerate politician than some of the people we see being voted in to power. Ken died in April, aged 81 - may he rest in peace, and we send love to his family.
Rumi's wisdom
I have to admit I don't remember hearing of Jalaluddin Rumi until my boyfriend showed me a book of Rumi wisdom, and since then I've noticed people sharing Rumi quotes now and then. They are always wise. Here is a selection of them:
Business book recommendation
I've been having sessions with business coach Robin Waite . He's very good and has helped me double my turnover in just a few sessions. During one of our meetings he handed me a book called Oversubscribed by Daniel Priestley. There are some very good insights in the book and excellent advice on subjects such as capacity and pricing. If you are a business owner this book is definitely for you.
You are what you eat
Every 35 days, your skin replaces itself. Your liver takes about a month. Your body makes these new cells from the food you eat. What you eat literally becomes you. You have a choice about what you are made of. Eat wisely. These words are from Dr Don Colbert.
Toxic people – is it always someone else?
I've been noticing a phrase for a few years, about people being 'toxic' in others' lives. It's a good description of how things can be when someone has negative effects on you. This can be in various ways – perhaps they drain you, talk about you behind your back, betray you, take from you, or you generally just don't feel good around them. They don't lift you up, encourage you, or want the best for you. There comes a time, for your own wellbeing, that you have to make the decision to let go of these people. I was thinking about this the other day when another thought came to me – it's not always everyone else! We also have to look at ourselves and take responsibility for elements of toxicity. We may not think it, but perhaps we've been exactly that to a few other people along the way and didn't realise it. Maybe we still are. I'm not saying to beat ourselves up about this, but just to recognise it and continue with self-development, and commit to be positive and more loving from now on. As the motto from my son's old school goes – 'always be kind'.
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Put saltfish to soak in cold water for about 1 hour. Pour off water; add fresh water and boil until tender. Heat your favourite oil or butter and sauté onion, garlic, scallions, tomatoes, scotch bonnet pepper and sweet pepper until tender, about five to six minutes. Add flaked saltfish, a can of ackee and black pepper. Can also add a sprig of fresh thyme, a pinch of paprika and a good grind of black pepper.
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How many online groups do you belong to? 10, 15, 100? They are so popular these days (thanks to Facebook and LinkedIn) and there's definitely a group for everyone but how on earth can you get the most from them?
I'll hold my hands up. I belong to too many. I cannot possibly keep up with what's going on in them all and really, I might as well not be in about half of them. If I was the Group Admin, I'd probably like me to leave because I'm not bringing much to the party! But, it's hard… when I try to have a cull, I find myself suffering from 'fomo' (Fear Of Missing Out!) so in I stay.
If it was an offline group, you know, a real-life group where I had to actually show up, this behaviour would be unacceptable and I'd be quite unpopular! Hanging about, not saying anything, just lurking. It's not a pleasant way to carry on, is it?
A nut roast is of course the default for a vegan or vegetarian Christmas dinner. Does it really have to be that somewhat dried up slab of something like softened chip board? No, of course it doesn't. This set of Christmas dinner suggestions are bursting with colour, vibrancy, protein and nutritional punch. At the same time, you will not be asking for seconds, I guarantee it. Neither will you be reaching for the mince pies by the time the Queen has said her Christmas day piece. You will be, to be frank, stuffed!
So, there's a few ingredients in here you probably won't have in stock everyday, but hey it's Christmas right?
To serve 4-6 people
For the nut loaf:
1. Cook the red lentils in plenty of boiling water for 15 minutes until soft, drain with a mesh sieve.
2. Heat the reserved oil from the sun-dried tomatoes in a sauté pan and cook the onions for 5 minutes until they just brown. Add all the other ingredients except the dried herbs and spices and stir well to combine. Add the dried herbs, spices and salt and pepper.
3. Line a large loaf tin (approximately20cm x 10cm) with baking paper. Spoon the mixture into the tin and spread evenly with the back of a fork. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees, gas mark 4 for around 55 minutes. Test by inserting sharp knife or skewer, which should come out clean when the loaf is cooked. Allow to rest for 5 minutes before turning the loaf out and slicing.
Loaf topping:
This can be prepared in advance, reheated and added to the top of the loaf after baking.
1. Pop the sweet potato in the oven with the nut roast and bake for 30-35 minutes in its skin until soft.
2. Sauté the mushrooms in a cooking oil of your choice for around 5 minutes until they brown, turn of the heat and toss in the spinach until it wilts staring together with the mushrooms at the same time. Scape the cooked potato into the pan, mashing with the spatula as you go. Add the lemon juice, black pepper and nutmeg and stir to combine. Spread the mixture in a thick layer onto the nut loaf and decorate with the cranberries, walnuts pomegranate and half the roughly chopped parsley.
3. Arrange the topped nut loaf on a warmed serving platter and surround with roasted vegetables (carrots, parsnips, squashes, potatoes, celeriac, swede even a few cherry tomatoes etc.) and your winter greens – broccoli, purple sprout tops, sprouts, black kale (cavalo nero), fine green beans etc. and serve with a jug of rich onion and red wine gravy. Toss the remains parsley over the vegetables.
Bon appetit!
There's a knock at my door, it's a delivery. I wasn't aware I had ordered anything, let me think..ah, is it that time again already?! It's the precious, petite box of pure joy I've been eagerly waiting for, and it's not a day too late! I tear into the paper, I can smell the warm, soft sweetness alluding to what's inside this month. I find the signature note from the crafter of these little creations, then carefully open the box (so not to disturb the contents) to take a peak inside, with as much excitement as if receiving a puppy on Christmas morning!
Sitting there I see nine individually wrapped chocolates. My very own, personalised smooth chocolate truffles created just for me! 'Chocolates?'
you may think, 'All that anticipation for a box of chocolates?!'
Well, I say unapologetically, yes! These aren't just any high street chocolates, nor were they mindlessly ordered online - popped in the basket and paid for without a second thought. No, these OMmaZing
bite-sized pieces of heaven were purposefully chosen by me and thoughtfully made for me.
I must resemble a wild bore snuffling in the undergrowth for a seasonal truffle rummage, eyes rolled back, digging in to these in utter delight! I can't just stop at one, you see, it's a problem (but one I'm not willing to change). I've heard there are others who suffer the same happy addiction. I think Daniella could create a self-help group for us called 'OMmaZing's Anonymous'? No? Well it sounds as if the amazingly Exclusive VIP Chocolate Club is the only other alternative then!
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is the perfect option for those of us who eat chocolate more regularly than to celebrate our own birthday. Especially if you treat yourself to chocolate at least once a month and consider yourself a healthy eater with a sweet tooth; desiring to know even the ingredients in your ice cream. I love chocolate but I don't eat it too often, so when I do, I like my choice to be something I can take my sweet time to delight and indulge in. Chocolate Club is clearly the answer!
What I love about Chocolate Club, is that as well as it conveniently saves a trip to the supermarket to stock up on a couple of bars (which I'm not fussed about but eat anyway), I get to choose my own favourite fillings from a vast selection of flavours, right down to the type of chocolate used - from milk to raw cacao. I get the satisfaction of receiving a box just when I'd forgotten all about it, and usually right at a moment when I appreciate them most too. Upon their arrival, it sort of feels like I'm getting a reward or like a present to myself just to say 'well done you'. I think it's important to treat yourself sometimes and what better way to do it?
Those of you of a certain age may recall that ' Don't Believe The Hype ' is a half-remembered rap song from some years ago. At that time I was still working in my previous life of advertising and design. It's a strange industry – obviously it makes its money from clients who have products and services they wish to sell to particular groups of people – and advertising agencies are as much a mainstream business as the clients they work on behalf of. Yet, the creative studios in which I spent many years were populated by very 'alternative' people who thought, bought and behaved very differently to the consumers they by and large were employed to influence. I felt quite comfortable there for a long time, but I look back with a certain discomfort on that world now.
Advertising is extremely influential in the highly lucrative and extremely competitive food and drinks industry (although I have never worked on campaigns in those sectors). Think how we have been persuaded to ' go to work on an egg ', or that British Beef, New Zealand (and more recently Welsh) lamb and Danish bacon are somehow better than other counterparts. More recently, food and especially snack food, advertising aimed at children has become a hotly debated political issue. Jamie Oliver is a vociferous campaigner for a 9pm watershed for such advertising as are former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former Health Secretary Alan Johnson. Yet little has changed. Major food brands have continued to target children with junk food products that dazzle young eyes and create a sense that such products are a normal part of everyday diet.
It was my birthday over the weekend. I played the game of reversing the numbers of my age as I often do, so for example, two years ago I was 15, last year 25 and this year I reached the ripe old age of 35! The game also involves recall and reflection too. Shortly after my 19th birthday in 1983 I left home to go and study in Wiltshire, leaving behind my South Devon comfort zone. I had been vegetarian for a relatively short time at that point, and I was excited about taking complete control of my own food. I regularly visited a health food shop called Swindon Pulse, which was an Aladdin's Cave of open sacks of beans, grains and cereals with shelves piled high with meat replacement products that required rehydration, tins of exotic Eastern foods unfamiliar to me and also soya milk. At that time it was completely unavailable anywhere other than health food shops. I loved that shop – such shops had yet to re-imagine themselves as 'pharmacies' selling mainly supplements and bodybuilding potions, as they seem to now. I also liked one of the girls who worked in the shop, but that's another story altogether.
Also I remembered being at primary school in the 1970s, at which point the full horror of school milk came flooding back to me. Miniature milk bottles holding, I think, 1/3 of a pint that arrived in the classroom first thing in the morning and were then stored on the radiator and in full sunlight. Needless to say, by the time my teacher had brutally stabbed the lids of each bottle with a knitting needle and inserted a straw later in the day, this full-fat bottle of misery was warm and thoroughly sour. I will forever be grateful to the late Margaret Thatcher for scrapping school milk (although there is little else in her legacy I am grateful for). I hated that school milk with a passion and as a result I've had a strong dislike for milk ever since.
Milk was no loss to me whatsoever when I shifted my diet to a fully vegan one a couple of years ago. To many, however, it is a default in the household fridge. Why? How did it come to be that humans became the only animal group to never become fully weaned?
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A guy we know went vegan last week, he announced to the world (on
Facebook of course). Actually that's not quite true, he has adopted a
plant-based diet for a while in order to help him to lose some weight. He's
quite a big guy, he's also a bit of a bacon butty and burger type character. As
a result of his post he's received many comments essentially sneering at his
decision and making jokes about his eating habits pre last week. No doubt
that's been disheartening for him, but he has already shed 5 pounds. Not bad
going, hey?
He proudly posted images of his enormous basket of fresh vegetables – a rainbow of colour which he intends to be the basis of his meals this coming week. We have given him some help and support with a few pieces of advice around supplementing his vegetables with other food types to help him feel more full and also to balance his diet a little better.
Now… perhaps this sounds like you. Or, you may already have made a more long-term decision, you could even be thinking about 'meat-free Mondays' or perhaps introducing more plant-based days into your weekly meal planning. All power to you, I say. What I want to discuss in this week's blog are ways in which you can eat satisfactory, healthy and nutritionally balanced meals.
This will sound a little odd at first, but you need to prepare to eat more! I know, great isn't it? Plant-based food can be extremely filling, but you will require greater volume. To put it in simpler terms – a meal comprising vegetables and pulses, for example, will need to completely fill your stomach. A heavily meat based meal should only half fill it, and a dairy-based meal a bit less again. So fill your plates, people!
The day the world went vegan. Well, for a few hours it seemed that
way. Amidst a Bank Holiday weekend blessed with welcome but long awaited
sunshine, Saturday became Cheltenham Vegan Fair day. Something approaching 100
stall holders, charities and talk/workshop 'deliverers' descended on the Town
Hall to be joined by in the order of 2000 visitors throughout the day – many of
whom waited patiently in a queue snaking far into Imperial Square and beyond,
to get in.
Food and nutrition were high on the list of offers inside the Town Hall – some amazing caterers performing miracles with plant-based ingredients. Independent cake and savoury bakers working wonders with pastry or whipped dairy-free frostings. Artisan cheese-makers, dairy-free mayonnaise and coleslaw producers, raw food specialists and nutritionists added an incredible diversity to the products on offer. Visitors were also treated to a long list of excellent talks and workshops which approached food and nutrition in a variety of unique ways.
Let's not forget either the organisations who are dedicated to changing our lifestyles. Shoe-makers doing incredible things with faux-leather goods, ethical clothing makers and sellers, cruelty-free cosmetics and powerful change-makers such as Friends of the Earth, Sea Shepherds, several animal sanctuaries and many inspirational speakers. I'm sure I've missed other contributors too, if that's you, I'm sorry, my memory isn't what it was!
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In a week that has once again seen contaminated eggs become headline
news, it's an opportunity for everyone to reflect on just exactly what they are
eating. Like many people, you may well be very particular about your eggs,
ensuring that you buy only free-range eggs from UK farms or even purchasing
eggs from local producers at Farmers' Markets or Farm Shops. Also, many
supermarkets highlight the fact that they sell only fresh eggs bearing the
British Red Lion stamp of quality. Here comes the BUT though…
Supermarkets including Asda, Morrison's, Sainsbury's and Waitrose have been hastily removing products containing contaminated eggs from the Netherlands from their shelves. These are mostly fresh sandwiches and salads, filled with cheap, non free-range eggs mass produced outside of the UK. And let's not get started on the sheer volume of eggs incorporated into a huge range of mass produced products on the same supermarkets' shelves. It is simply not possible for you, the shopper, to make any value judgement on the integrity of those products. Double standards? Hypocrisy?
Well, here's what Ian Jones, chairman of British Lion Egg Processors, said: "We believe shoppers are growing increasingly concerned about the ingredients used in manufactured food and now more than ever want and deserve transparency on food packaging. The British Egg Industry Council believes that this is a great opportunity for retailers to listen to the concerns of their customers and reassure them by specifying the use of British eggs and using the 'Made with British Lion eggs' logo on packs."
My catering business, Poco Culina , is entirely plant-based. Whilst I have no intention of this blog being just a platform to advocate veganism, it is however my belief that we all need to consider more deeply what we are eating, where it comes from and how it was made. The damage being to done to health and the environment by irresponsible food producers cannot continue unabated. We all need to take far more care in what is being sold to us, irrespective of our individual dietary choices.
My approach, as a Chef, is to research ingredients and cooking techniques that use fresh, single origin ingredients cooked to traditional, mainly Eastern methods. Indian cooking is particularly exciting to me. Take fairly familiar Indian foods such as onion bhaji or vegetable pakora, they are bound together with seasoned batters made very simply with gram (chickpea) flour and water – no eggs or butter required. Similarly, dosa – Indian pancakes – are made from batters made with soaked pulses – urad dal, moong dal, chana dal, red dal and so on, all of which are split peas or varieties of lentil. The ever popular Middle Eastern falafel too is made from soaked and puréed chickpeas. Made properly, there should never be any need for eggs to bind them together. Not only are these products deeply nutritious but they taste amazing too. But then you know that, you will all no doubt have eaten and enjoyed them.
That's all for this week, see you next time.
Watch what you eat!
"Stop showing off Frances!". The words hit me like a brick. I jolt to a stop, hang my head in shame and back towards the door. Once outside, huge tears roll down my reddened cheeks, whilst I try to work out which feeling is the strongest – humiliation, shame, or anger. Humiliation takes first place with shame coming in a close second. There is no room for anger so that is shut out – rejected. Sibling rivalry encourages me to believe that certain siblings, who were privy to the exchange, are smirking at my abasing. Probably fantasy on my part but it feels real enough at the time.
Leaving home for boarding school at 7 was almost a relief. Maybe this was to be a place for me to shine? A place where I could 'show off' without being reduced to a mere morsel of myself by the lashing of a tongue, from a mother who would mow us all down with her words, time after time.
Boarding school was different. I was no longer a show off. I advanced from show off to simply not being good enough. As the youngest boarder, my confident, wanting to shine self, was soon hushed. My dorm mates poked and jibed me. They pushed me to undertake the most inexcusable dares. All of which I undertook with a unsuspecting smile, desperately wanting to gain their approval. My efforts were futile however, as they had already decided that I would never match them, in worldliness, wealth, possessions or influence. Or was that what I had decided?
Nonetheless, my now 8 year old courage endured, as I endeavoured to make them laugh, offered to make their beds, pretended I liked what they liked, danced and sang along with them all.
Then came the words from the most officious matron – "Stop showing off Frances!". Bang! There I go, back to the abyss of misery and unsureness. Humility, shame, embarrassment oozing through my every pore, whilst the other girls laugh and jeer. I dive into my bed like a rabbit down a rabbit hole, as far down the bed as I can - and I cry. The humility and shame are colossal. The message is clear. Never put my head over that parapet of doom again. Stay low girl. Stay thwarted – the life of shine is not for you!
Wind forward 30 years and I see myself having developed a hard wired belief that repeats pattern like - over and over again, but now I don't need the trigger of another – I can shame and humiliate myself single handily.
Clever eh? How does it work? This is it… stay low. Somehow, someone sees some talent in me and helps me onto the stage. Happy days for a bit, with me hanging about in the wings. Then after a while, I bravely take a step forward towards the light. But I have barely put my toe into the circle of the spotlight before I withdraw, moving myself back to where I belong, in the shadows. Fearful that those words will be expressed again. They probably already have, but they were out of earshot.
Only by now, all these years later, the anger is rising. I am no longer able to reject it. "I DESERVE TO SHINE!" - my unconscious shouts. "I know I have much to offer. I can help people." But unconscious whispers back "don't be foolish, child, you will just look stupid – as you will be showing off. Stay back, stay safe. Stay in the shadows."
I am so grateful for my 50s mid life crisis. For it was then that the anger reached its summit. It surfaced not as rage however, but as a hunger for The Why? A quest to find out why those feelings would show up every time a flash of opportunity came my way, spoiling… well, everything. For the last couple of years I have read, I have listened, I have learned and I have expressed. And wow! Have I accomplished a lot and no, I am not 'showing off'.
The knowledge I have gained now helps me to help other people. It helps me understand how I can move forward with a clear conscious. I have forgiven my darling Mum, that matron, and my smirking siblings (even if they weren't guilty!).
I can now see that the problem was mine, not theirs. I am in control of how my feelings show up and what they are attached to.
So now things can change. I have decided that being a show-off is what I need to be. That singing and dancing is not just for the films, it is for me too. I will step into the circle of the spotlight and lift my chin and smile. For if I can sing, and if I can dance then I can shine. If I allow myself to shine, then who can I be? I am not sure. But I am very much looking forward to finding out.
There are a bunch of amazing people in my life, who, probably without knowing it, have led me to understand that I no longer need to worry about 'showing off'. Today was the first day that I found the phrase "I want to show off". I will say it daily. These are the people I would like to thank for helping me get to where I am today…
Tricia Sterry http://www.blockclearance.com
Di – Dickenson, a beautiful human being who will be the best Block Clearance Therapist very soon.
Neil Snaith, my husband and so much more.
Connie and Wren Snaith, my children.
Deborah Price http://moneycoachinginstitute.com/
Sarah Dena - www.facebook.com/Sarah.L.Dena
Maxine Smith - www.bodyawarenesstherapies.co.uk
Robin Waite - http://robinwaite.com/
Cindy Davis – http://thefgcoach.com/
Carie Lyndene - http://carie-lyndene.com/
Martin Croft – www.thethoughtbusiness.com
Sali Green - https://www.iwork4uglos.co.uk/
I thank you all from the bottom of my heart.
How is your memory? Do you find that it's become increasingly worse over the years, both long and short term? In this article I'm going to tell you what happened when I went for SOUND THERAPY the other day.
Holistic therapist Rebecca McCorquerdale asked if I'd go along as one of her final case studies for sound therapy qualification. It sounded interesting and soothing, and I'm not one to turn down the opportunity of anything holistic, so we booked a date and before I knew it the day had arrived. I was uptight and a bit stressed. I'd had a furniture-related minor head injury the night before and still had a pounding headache, not to mention the 3 glasses of red wine I'd consumed the same evening. Rebecca welcomed me in to the haven of peace and calm she's created at her home, where the aroma of essential oils wafted around in the atmosphere. She seemed so relaxed and serene it was like she floated towards the kitchen to get me a glass of water, whilst I trailed behind feeling rushed, heavy and drained. Of course, the next thing was that I offloaded all my pent up feelings and related the story of the computer sliding off a chest of drawers and hitting me in the head. I was in anxiety mode, worrying that the head injury was never going to heal and would continue to get worse. I tend to get these thoughts that spiral out of control if I let them. Rebecca took it all in her stride. It didn't bring her down to my level. She knew that by the time she'd finished with me, she'd be sending me off in floaty mode just like her.
Back in the purple holistic haven, I sat on her chaise longue while she leaned on the treatment couch, explaining to me a brief history of sound therapy and how it's used and what it does. She said she'd be drawing on the natural energy from the earth and using the wonderful vibrations of sound from the tuning forks to rebalance my mind, body and spirit. There was also mention of dowsing and chakras.
Well - not only did Rebecca do all of what was mentioned, but also with these hypnotic sounds she also conjured up something quite unexpected in me. What started to unfold in my mind, once a state of relaxation and calm had been reached, was an unfolding of distant memories.
My anxious mind started to fight this at first, worrying that when your life's events flash before you, something's up! I reassured myself that this wasn't a 'life flashing before me' scenario. In fact it was all at a leisurely pace.
I used mindfulness just to bring things 'back in the room' for a while - feeling Rebecca's calm presence at my side, and picturing my bag in the corner of the room. I was still very much here, and we hadn't moved on to another world. So gradually I allowed those memories to flow back in. They weren't in order; they were jumping to different parts of my life - mostly early childhood. The thing that astounds me here is that these are things I have not recollected for a very long time, if at all. In the title of this article I've used the word 'vivid'. It's not an exaggeration. We're talking right down to the fabric, texture and pattern of the pale blue silky embroidered bedspread in my grandmother's spare room in Birmingham; her shoe rack in the wardrobe, filled with shoes that had molded to the shape of her bunions; the geraniums in her conservatory; feeding the fish in her pond, and going to Cannon Hill Park, feeding ducks and seeing red squirrels. Right down to the whole family playing ping pong, and the stale Weetabix she kept in the larder. She died decades ago. I also visited memories of my other grandparents - even the day we left their old home near Tewkesbury and moved to Cheltenham - down to the exact feeling of looking out of the window across the garden and saying goodbye to it. I would have been under 5 years old then. I remembered sitting at the dining table at the flat in Pittville, eating curried mince with potatoes and peas with my grandparents and cousin. We were still so little. I remembered exactly what Nanna said to us when we mashed our potatoes into the sauce: "You're making a right pussy's dinner out of that!" (and she hadn't heard of Hip Hop).
This trip down memory lane came to the point where tears began to flow. I could feel them rising up in me and this brought me back to being 'in the moment' again, because I suddenly felt conscious of my tears welling up and the slight embarrassment of that. I said this to Rebecca who opened the curtains slightly and said we would 'hold the space' for a while. The tears came and some snivelling too. I didn't feel embarrassed any more. I just felt what a big thing this was to me... all these memories that I didn't think I could ever have accessed again. They were precious. Next came Rebecca's turn for some emotion. When this happened I felt so privileged. It was like time stood still. Everything in our lives leading up to that point had brought us there, and we appreciated it and its depth. Rebecca felt a couple of messages for me that she had to say out loud - something that had cropped into her mind that she felt she had to pass on to me. Something about me being a warrior, and to stand my ground.
Along with memory-gate, there was also a physical reaction during the tuning forks therapy. A heightened sensitivity in one place, which apparently then gets attuned and balanced by the sound therapy.
I've certainly felt a lot better ever since.
I wonder what sound therapy will hold for you?
To discover more about sound therapy you can connect with Rebecca on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RebeccaMcCorquodaleHolistics/
Default Diary
The default diary is such a simple but useful way to organise your business and home life. Choose a colour that represents each type of way you spend your time. To give you an example, I use purple for meetings, orange for my Top Dog clients / consultations, green for down time and fun stuff, and blue for admin and my directory clients. When I look at my diary I see at a glance how the day or month is looking. And I make sure there is consistency. So every Wednesday and Friday morning I'm in meetings. Every Monday and Tuesday I'm in the office doing admin and promoting my clients. Thursday I go to appointments, see my mum, etc. I can recommend this if you fancy giving it a try – it works! Let me know how you get on. Thank you Robin Waite for this idea.
Experiencing a career setback - such as reduncancy, being passed over for a promotion, or dealing with changes in your job description - can feel overwhelming. You may feel a little lost at times, and your self-esteem may have taken a hit. Depending on the situation, you may either feel undervalued or completely expendable, both of which can take a toll on your mood and even your physical health.
The good news is that there are some things you can do to take control of your career and, by extension, your life. It's important to remember that you are valuable, and if you're ready to change things up and strike out on your own, there are some simple ways to get started. Here are some of the best.
Take some time
One of the first things you should do after your experience is to take some time away from things. Whether it's for a weekend getaway or just a day off, carve some time out of your schedule to focus on yourself and your needs and take a breath. This is especially important if you're feeling low; getting away from things for a bit will allow you to calm down, reset, and potentially start a plan for the next move.
Figure out your goals
Your goals may have changed since your setback, or maybe you're not even sure what they are at the moment. That's okay! It's normal to feel as though you're floundering for a moment after an upheaval of your professional life. The key is to sit down and think about what you want to do next, and be honest with yourself. Do you really want to start sending out resumes to similar companies or confront your boss about why your co-worker received a big promotion over you, or would you rather strike out on your own and start a business? Think about what it would take to make you happy.
Make a plan
Mapping out a plan for your next career move can feel overwhelming, but remember, you're just in the planning stages. This is the fun part! You can really get creative here. Do you have a skill or a service you can provide? Are you arty or good with cake decorating? There are plenty of online outlets for your business; the key is narrowing down what you want to do. Once you have a few ideas, do some research to find out what similar businesses might exist in your area and think about how your business would differ. Standing out in the crowd is a big part of starting your own company.
This is a good time to start thinking about whether you want to go into business alone or with a partner . This can be a good friend or a loved one, but it should be someone you trust and have a good rapport with. Starting a business can be a stressful undertaking, and you'll need someone there who will have your back and can pick up the slack when you need a break.
Think about your online presence
Whether you're going to have a bricks-and-mortar store or an online-only presence, it's important to think about how you're going to attract customers and what you want the design of your business to be, both inside and out. If you plan on opening an online shop, it's essential to have an effective website for your business . You will also want to maintain a good social media presence, which means opening and keeping up with accounts on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter at the very least to keep customers engaged and to attract new fans. The same is true if you plan on being an online-only business.
Talk to someone who's done it
It will be extremely helpful if you can speak to someone who has experience in opening up their own business, whether it's a local business owner or an individual who has started their own company online. Don't be afraid to ask questions and request some advice on getting started; you never know where the great ideas will come from!
Moving away from a career you've worked hard to build is never an easy decision; however, it comes down to your desire to create a future that is both sustainable and can make you happy, and that's never a bad thing. With a good plan and a little time, you can build something new that you can be proud of.
About Jason
Jason Lewis is a personal trainer in Delaware. In 2002 he became the primary caretaker for his mother after her surgery. He realised, as he helped her with her recovery, there is a special need for trainers that can assist the seniors in our communities. Jason worked with his mother's doctor, as well as other personal trainers, to create programs that are considerate to the special health needs of those over the age of 65.
For a personal training in Cheltenham we recommend Sam at Hands On Wellbeing Centre .
People who inspire
Our emergency services are sometimes described as angels. Following the fatal accident in Cheltenham, it was reported that passers-by have praised the emergency services who attended the scene and tried so hard to help Anna Rys. Also recently at the Houses of Parliament attack, doctors bravely ran towards the scene, knowing how dangerous it might be for them. We are so lucky to have these people serving the community every day, putting the lives of others before their own.
Someone else who has been an inspiring person in his own individual, eccentric way is Dancing Ken. If you have been in Cheltenham a while you are bound to have seen him. Ken created his own style and stuck to it - a bright, quirky, friendly and much loved man who over the years is believed to have raised close to a million pounds for charity. He was a great supporter of Cheltenham's animal shelter and a lover of live music who also got involved in politics, standing for parliament in the 2005 general election. I have a feeling that wasn't such a silly idea and he'd have been a more considerate politician than some of the people we see being voted in to power. Ken died in April, aged 81 - may he rest in peace, and we send love to his family.
Have you ever felt like your life is just, not where you'd like it to be? You're making 'to do' lists, investing your energy into nurturing your ideas and plans but you have not seen a single sign of growth or return? It can often feel like that for all of us – this time of year especially, regardless of your career or ambition.
It's a new year, which means we've (most likely) broken our unrealistic resolutions, and still haven't been back to the gym. Our intentions are good, but good intentions don't bring results. We then find ourselves at a cross roads, but it's up to us to take action on opportunity, and get motivated to move! To find fulfilment in doing whatever it is we enjoy, while hopefully improving the lives of others is a good place to start.
That's where I was three years ago. Having left my job in car sales in 2007 to work for myself in car trading, I still felt yet to find my purpose. I assumed that I would be happy by continuing to work within the motor industry, and I was on the right road, but buying and selling still just wasn't for me – and the term 'salesman' certainly didn't ring true in my case.
Car Helpers was still a mere idea while I continued to drift along in sales, although I was happy to not be working for someone else, on someone else's dream. I used to be that grey-faced man in a suit and tie wishing it was five past five on a Friday evening. I had everything I needed but I knew something needed to change. Ironically, it was while living in those shallow waters I felt like I was drowning. I was over my head in sales targets, when all I wanted to do was talk about cars and offer my advice without an agenda.
I wanted to do something more meaningful with my life, whilst making a positive impact on the lives of others. But I questioned my options, 'how could I help? What could I do?' Well, I knew about two things – cars and counselling! I have, after all, always possessed an insatiable obsession with cars, and my knowledge of automobiles is hard pressed to beat. When I tell you my favourite car is the Porsche 911, I hope that resonates with my fellow car enthusiasts – isn't she a beauty?!
I've recently had an epiphany about the way I run Carhelpers , and I feel it's important to share my revelation with you. Perhaps it's due to my admittedly heartfelt approach to work, or that I've gained some fresh perspective on life and what matters most to me. Either way, things are changing for the better here at Carhelpers and I want to tell you why; you simply decide what my service is worth to you.
Let me explain…
As many of you know, my interest in cars is more of an obsession and from a young age I knew I would work in the industry. Being a car adviser has been the perfect career choice for me. I am able to combine my love for cars whilst striving to provide reliable and impartial advice. Working in the motor trade is the ideal opportunity for me to help people find the right car for them, whilst also saving them from being sold the wrong car.
The majority of sales people are genuine, caring individuals who only have your best interest at heart. I don't believe there is anything wrong in selling if you are transparent and honest about what you are selling, although sadly there are those that see pound signs as soon as you enter their office. A customer often approaches buying a car from a very defensive standpoint, being wary that they are going to be miss-sold a motor that could be a drain on their resources; both financially and emotionally.
Honest, personable salesmen like Jim Rohn and Brian Tracy are examples to us all, often preaching the belief that you should never sell anything that you wouldn't sell to your own mother. Some people even like to by cars with faults and fix them to sell on – which I totally stand by!
Cheltenham Noticeboard , iwork4u Community and Local Business Network are examples of Facebook groups you can join and post about your business, but remember to READ THE RULES of each group before posting. https://www.iwork4uglos.co.uk/social-community
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William Ratcliffe of Waynesburg, Greene County, Pa. Born June 9, 1852, died Aug 23, 1922.
He was the first registered veterinarian in Greene County. Registered for practice April 26, 1890. This photo was on all of his medicine bottles he used in his practice.
Submitted by Douglas Dunkerton, great grandson


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Freestyle football is when you perform various tricks with any part of your body, using a football.
It's been around for more than 100 years but has seen an increase in popularity recently as a result of global advertising campaigns and social media.
Unlike the actual sport of football, freestyling is mostly done individually, but it can be done as a team of two or three players. Freestyling lets you express yourself freely to show off your tricks.
I first got into freestyling a few years ago when I saw my brother watching a YouTube video and I really enjoyed seeing what freestylers can do.
I have been following many different freestylers ever since but my favourites are The F2 Freestylers because they are the best duo in the world in my opinion.
I have tried performing many of the freestyle skills but I can only do a few, as they are really hard and it takes dedication and grit.
Some of my favourite skills from The F2 Freestylers are The Lynch Snap, The Super Switch and The Samba Rocket.
The Lynch Snap
You perform this when a defender is over your left shoulder. Plant your left foot into the ground. Then bring your right foot around the ball and use the outside of your right boot to snap the ball backwards 180 degrees. Finally, spin your body in the opposite direction and sprint away with the ball.
The Super Switch
First of all you take a touch with the outside of your strong foot. Then, using your strong foot, drag the ball across your body to your other foot. Finally you bring your other foot forward and take a double touch of the ball between your two feet and sprint away with the ball.
The Samba Rocket
First of all you stop the ball with the sole of your foot and flick it up with your toes just above knee height. Then use your heal to flick the ball over the head of the defender and sprint into space with the ball.
So how do football freestylers make money? There are many ways.
The easiest way is by performing tricks on the street. All you need is a ball and an audience to impress. You can make up to £300 a day just by playing around with a ball, like a busker.
Really good freestylers also sell 'how to football freestyle' books, e-books and videos or have a website/YouTube channel and sell advertising.
Some freestylers also get sponsorship from sportswear companies, like Adidas and Nike. The F2 Freestylers have started selling their own football freestyle sportswear called Rascal Clothing.
In the early 2000s Nike began a freestyle advertising campaign called Joga Bonito (Portuguese for 'Play Beautiful'), including videos of freestyle performances. In my opinion, Joga Bonito was one of the best advertising campaigns ever created by Nike.
Nike used some of the biggest footballers such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Not long after the Joga Bonito campaign Nike released a freestyle football competition on the Internet, 'Nike Football', in which people could submit their own freestyling clips and receive feedback from a worldwide audience.
There have been many other competitions such as the Red Bull Street Style, F3 World Tour, Superball – World open Championships.
Some famous freestylers include F2 Freestylers, Andrew Henderson and Lisa Zimouche.
I have been inspired by The F2 Freestylers because they always strive for perfection. They are known as the world's best football duo. They are William 'Billy' Wingrove and Jeremy Lynch. Billy performed at the World Cup in 2010. Jeremy got to the final of Britain's Got Talent in 2008.
Check out one of the F2 Freestylers' videos.
Andrew Henderson is 24 and is the most successful football freestyler in the world when it comes to competitions. He has won the Red Bull Street Style. He has also been the UK's champion from 2009 to 2015.
Check out one of Andrew's videos.
Lisa Zimouche is 17 years old. She is a football player and Instagram superstar known for her freestyle football videos. She started competing in 2012 when she was part of the Red Bull Street Style.
Check out one of Lisa's videos.


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Dr. Reed,
I would like to consider transgender orchiectomy as a transitional step to full vaginoplasty.
How soon are appointments available.
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As this is irreversible surgery, we do require 2 letters of licensed therapy clearance,
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Among the advantages are the feminzing effects, discontinuation of a testosterone blocker
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The Colony is a film directed by Jeff Renfroe and starring Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton. I don't remember it ever hitting the theatres; it may have just been a made for Sy fy (I don't believe they spell it like that!) or something like that. The lead role is played by Kevin Zegers, an actor I know nothing about. Anyway, Kevin plays a young man named Sam living in a colony (I think it's Colony 7 or Colony 5), one of only several such places that humans can still live. The setting is a post-apocalyptic Earth, one brought on by a new Ice Age that came about after humanity developed the technology to manipulate weather and things got out of control.
The story is fairly linear. From the beginning it is clear that the colony is in a rough spot and the measures they have taken to ensure their survival are nearly draconian by our soft cushy standards. For them, disease is a terrible threat. Anyone who comes down with something must be quarantined; if they don't get better in the allotted time they are given a test. If it comes back positive, they are given a choice: be shot or walk. Walking means leaving the colony and trying to make it on your own in the arctic wasteland around it. Basically, walking is a death sentence as well. Laurence Fishburne plays Briggs the leader of the colony. Bill Paxton plays Mason, the colony's increasingly draconian bad guy.
There are other colonies in the area. The story really takes off when Sam's colony loses contact with one of the other neighboring ones. Sam, Briggs, and one other colony member set off to investigate. What has silenced their neighbor? Is it simply mechanical error? Or something more sinister.
Strengths: I think the acting was fine. The storyline held together well enough. I don't think there were any parts were you wanted to berate the characters for doing something really stupid. The premise was interesting … a little bit of a twist on the standard post-apocalyptic setting. Weaknesses: Bill Paxton plays the standard jerk/bad guy who everybody wants to see die. He did fine in the role, it's just that that character-type has been done to death. Also, although the storyline held together, there really weren't any twists to make it really intriguing. It was okay, but unexceptional. Finally, the movie did not end well. The conclusion wasn't a conclusion. It left you with a sense of hope, but still unsure whether or not the colony survives. I wanted a stronger sense of closure.
Anyway, I'll give The Colony three stars out of five.


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This article is about the crime family. For the ruler of Calimshan, see Ralan el Pesarkhal.
The Pesarkhals were the post powerful crime family in Calimshan in 1370 DR, controlling each of the remaining three houses, because Syl-Pasha Ralan el Pesarkhal sat on the throne.
Ralan el Pesarkhal also intentionally married off his daughters to the other families to control them, and while the seat of control for el Pesarkhal was technically in Calimport, there was at least one Pesarkhal family member in a position of power in every city throughout Calimshan.[1]
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- The four major crime families of Calimshan in 1370 DR:
- El Pesarkhal
- El Kahmir
- El Vyndahla
- El Ahimar
- ↑ Steven E. Schend and Dale Donovan (September 1998). Empires of the Shining Sea. (TSR, Inc), p. 72. ISBN 978-0786912377.
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Fitness Center
Tenant Lounge & Game room
Theatre/screening Room
Roof deck
Yoga studio
Bike & storage rooms
Attended parking
Granite & Stainless kitchen
Sun flooded rooms
Hardwood floors
Split Bedrooms