Energy efficiency and I have never really gotten along until recently when a friend pointed me towards the Enigin scam busters website. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m all up for saving the planet just as much as the next person, but I’ve never really had the time to think about just how much energy I’m using when I turn on the TV or use the washing machine. That is until my friend bought me an Eniscope. My first question was %u2018what the hell is this?'shortly followed by %u2018can you make me a sandwich with it?'Needless to say, the second question was rudely ignored.

An Eniscope it turns out is a handy little gadget that gives you real time information on just how much power is being consumed in your home or building. %u2018Great!'I said, shortly followed by %u2018and just how will this help me out?' I love new toys, but this little gadget looked like I could accidentally blow up my house if I pressed the wrong button. My friend accused me of being a drama queen and proceeded to explain how the monitor works.

At first I was a little afraid of the strange device blinking away at me, but then I started getting updates to my phone and laptop on just how much energy I was using. If seeing a nicely illustrated graph of how much energy is being used in your house doesn’t wake you up – especially when it’s delivered to your phone – then I don’t know what will. My jaw visibly dropped open when I realised how much energy was being consumed, often when I wasn’t even in the house.

It turns out that there are very few decent consumption monitors on the market. The Eniscope is one of the very best, but the Enigin Scam Busters website does show you just how easy it is to get fooled by other companies into thinking that you’re buying a decent product when in actual fact you’re merely buying an enhanced tea cosy.

Whilst I detest my friend for trying to make me a better person, I have to admit she has saved me some money and made me more energy efficient…something I never thought I could be. Since I connected the Eniscope contraption I learnt that I was using nearly 40% more gas then I needed to and 21% more electricity then was necessary. Not only has this made me a (dare I say it) greener person, but I’ve saved nearly £300 in the past quarter on my energy bills. For a guy who used to leave the TV on standby, that Enigin scam buster website has turned me into someone who yells at people for doing what I used to do all the time.

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I know that most people complain about the so-called rubbish British weather, but I personally don’t understand why they hate it so much. I think that the British weather is perfect. During the summer it is not that hot, except for June, and during the winter we don’t have freezing days with temperatures below – 10 degrees. It is just lovely. And the best thing about British weather is that here it rains a lot. I just love the rain. I love the smell of it, I like walking in the rain, I like the rainy Sundays when my only daily task is to enjoy a lovely book.

There is something magical that I cannot actually explain. I personally think that everything looks better when it is covered with small rain drops. The windows of my house look awesome, my car looks completely different, the grass, oh the lovely green grass, looks better, full of life, it is so poetic, so utterly beautiful. I also love driving in the rain. I just listen to some gentle music, usually jazz, and I just cruise the streets. It is so special and I feel so good. I even used to go out for a long drive almost every night when it was raining and just explored the city and its beauty. And the only thing I could see was the beautiful architecture or the lovely trees, the night sky, everything else just disappeared like magic, all the rubbish on the street, all the annoying posters, pop up displays and banners, even the beggars were nowhere to be seen – a perfect harmony. I also love how every mechanical thing on my old car seems to work better when it is damp. And do you know what the best thing about rain is? The rainbow that appears on the sky when there are even a few sun rays. There is nothing more beautiful than that.

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Like many people, I have had a lot of varied jobs; especially in that phase when I finished college and couldn’t find anything I really enjoyed enough to stick with. The job I talk about today, however, is the one I had as a night job during my office cleaning croydon period. I was 19 at the time, and after my day of cleaning offices – and I mean cleaning EVERY SINGLE PART, including the toilets until they were immaculate… – I would head out to work at the newsagents around the corner. I really liked that job, apart from one small thing: the girl I had to work with on Friday’s…

The girl was, more accurately, the boss’s daughter Tracy. Now, I had nothing against Tracy in the beginning. In fact we were of similar age and we got on well enough that after work we’d walk down the street together and have a hug before we both went our separate ways.

I was probably over-reacting, but when she laughed at me and pretended she had no idea, I grabbed her by the wrist…

And it was all going fine until one Friday a few months into the job when I came back from the bathroom to discover Tracy holding my mobile phone.

“Who’s this?” she said, holding the phone up, a message on the screen. “He sounds hot!”

The writer of the message was actually my friend Laura, a girl, and sometimes Laura amused herself by sending me saucy messages and pretending she was my male lover. This might make you wonder about my sexuality and general life goings on, but trust me when I say that Laura was just a girl with a wicked sense of humour and too much time on her hands. Nothing more.

It was only later that evening, when I got a text back from another friend who said he had got a sexy message from my phone, that I really started to realise how much Tracy had annoyed me — and all this quickly builded into one supercharged wall of negative energy. It took me longer than it should have done to work out what had happened, and when it did I confronted Tracy right away. Well, almost right away…the second she came in from her ridiculously frequent fag break.

I was probably over-reacting, but when she laughed at me and pretended she had no idea, I grabbed her by the wrist and yanked; told her that she couldn’t go looking through my phone and replying to people she had never met. Tracy stared at me and stopped laughing as I told her, in no uncertain terms, to never do that again. And as it transpired she didn’t. And even better, her visits to the newsagent became a lot less frequent after that day, and I didn’t even get in trouble! Funny how saying the right thing at the right time can have exactly the right dramatic effect!

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Decomposed gravel comes in different shades of gray or tan. It can be as small as sand, which is used to brush between things to as big as a quarter of an inch. Using a mixture of different sizes when laying decomposed gravel will help the mixture to pack well and look better. If you live in a place where it rains or an area where water builds up, you might reconsider using decomposed granite, and this is something commercial estate agents may tell you . However, if you are dead set on using decomposed granite, make sure to mix it with other things such as a stabilizer or resin.

If you choose to use stabilizer, be forewarned that you will probably need to replace or repair this within 7-10 years due to erosion. If you use resin, the length of time between repairs will extend to approximately 15 years.

Using stabilizer or resin mixed in with the decomposed granite will give it a more packed appearance. If you are using this on a level surface or are using edging, it will help to hold the decomposed granite in place. If the area where you are using the decomposed granite is used often or are doing a driveway, it is best to choose the resin instead of the stabilizer.

Last but not least, you need to make sure that the color you choose – either a shade of gray or tan – matches the exterior of your home. That way, it blends in and looks much better. If you have a big project, it might be best to get an estimate from a company who knows what they are doing, since unskilled hands may be able to do the small projects but will probably make a mess of the larger jobs.

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Decomposed gravel comes in different shades of gray or tan. It can be as small as sand, which is used to brush between things to as big as a quarter of an inch. Using a mixture of different sizes when laying decomposed gravel will help the mixture to pack well and look better. If you live in a place where it rains or an area where water builds up, you might reconsider using decomposed granite, and this is something commercial estate agents may tell you . However, if you are dead set on using decomposed granite, make sure to mix it with other things such as a stabilizer or resin.

If you choose to use stabilizer, be forewarned that you will probably need to replace or repair this within 7-10 years due to erosion. If you use resin, the length of time between repairs will extend to approximately 15 years.

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A conversation I was having with my Dad the other day on the phone got me thinking a lot about his generation. Despite his incredible mathematical and financial ability, my Dad still has trouble using his mobile phone. According to an article published by The Independent online, this type of problem is only going to grow over the next ten years as the aging process begins to take hold. Mobile technology has to adapt.

This got me thinking even further. I’m so used to using mobile broadband abroad, at home, in bed, in the kitchen and on the train that I never stopped to think about how my age will start to affect my ability to use this technology. Yet if my Dad is already having trouble accessing his messages and trying to keep up with touch screen technology, where will I be in thirty years time?

My Dad already has problems with hearing conversations over the phone (not just because of his age; he deafened his ear drums beyond repair at all the rock concerts he went to growing up) and despite turning the phone up to full volume when talking he still gets frustrated.

I think that although Smartphone technology is wonderful stuff, it needs to now go a bit further and become more user-friendly to the older generation. In ten years time I might need help in using the phone and I don’t want to be as frustrated as my Dad sometimes gets when sending a text message.

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Here are a few things I have learned by reading others’journals, and, by turns, their minds:

1) People are always thinking something completely different to what they tell you.

2) Those friends who aren’t particularly loud or bubbly? Those are the ones you have to watch! One of my friends, who will remain nameless, is obsessed with Red Diesel Newcastle lorries. It says so in his diary and every time I see him I am very tempted to make some kind of a hint or a mention!

3) You really shouldn’t read other peoples’journals. It is not right. Yet…it feels so right. How can it possibly feel right? Don’t ask me, I am addicted and sure to lie or not make any sense.

4) That your friends love you and care for you more than you think. They might not tell you so often, but in a diary – in that safe place – there are all kinds of secrets to be found.

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Here are a few things I have learned by reading others’journals, and, by turns, their minds:

1) People are always thinking something completely different to what they tell you.

2) Those friends who aren’t particularly loud or bubbly? Those are the ones you have to watch! One of my friends, who will remain nameless, is obsessed with Red Diesel Newcastle lorries. It says so in his diary and every time I see him I am very tempted to make some kind of a hint or a mention!

3) You really shouldn’t read other peoples’journals. It is not right. Yet…it feels so right. How can it possibly feel right? Don’t ask me, I am addicted and sure to lie or not make any sense.

4) That your friends love you and care for you more than you think. They might not tell you so often, but in a diary – in that safe place – there are all kinds of secrets to be found.

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I was at a store purchasing some plastic packaging for some things I wanted to safely store away when I notice a woman in the line who had on a blouse with a gaping V-neckline.

Now gaping V-necklines are unattractive, sloppy even. Before you purchase a garment with a V-neckline, make sure you try it on to ensure the neckline falls smoothly. Women who are more top-heavy and with a larger bust often risk getting V-necklines that gape and pucker. So it is important to try things on to ensure proper fit.

Sometimes, a gaping neckline can be avoided by improving your posture and straightening and smoothing the garment’s excess fabric along your shoulders.

Proper, custom fit can be achieved with custom made garments. As most of us cannot afford bespoke clothes from European tailors, breaking out the sewing machine is another way to get better fitting clothes.

Patterns, though, may need to be altered to better flatter you. To change a store-bought pattern’s neckline, make the neckline shorter so you don’t risk the garment falling away from the body and causing a loose neckline that can reveal too much cleavage. Draw your desired neckline, then cut it carefully. Next, make a temporary, 1cm dart starting from the center of the underarm to the center of the neckline. That’s it!

If you have a garment that already has a gaping V-neckline, you can fix it by lifting the front of the bodice at the shoulder area near the neck to remove excess fabric. You will also need to taper the armhole and alter the neckline so it falls smoothly. <

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