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How Getting It Wrong Can Still Give a Valuable Life Lesson
A Humorous look at how a 75 year old obese woman learned a valuable life lesson while floundering during a fitness routine. Find out the benefits reaped that far out weigh the fitness goal.
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Working Class Life in the 1940s and 50s - Christmas is Coming
This is a first hand account of what it was like getting ready for Christmas in a working class home in the 1940s and 50s
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Working Class Life in the 1940s and 50s – Christmas Cake and Pudding
Learn about Stir Up Sunday and our family traditions in a working class home involved around the making of Christmas cake and Christmas pudding in the 1940s and 50s
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Working Class Life 1940s & 50s -Indoor Plumbing?
A nostalgic look back to what it was like when we had outside toilets and guzunders aka pee pot or p**s pot. I am glad that I have indoor plumbing and running hot water now .
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Extreme Benidorm?
Introducing one part the lesser known Extreme Sports side of Benidorm with lots of fabulous photos. The event is Xtrem Running 2015 a 6 kilometre 15 obstacle course a fun packed event.
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Working Class Life in the 1940s and 50s The Old Tin Bath
Being brought up in a working class area in the 40s & 50s. This article looks at what it was like to bathe in an old tin bath and the work it involved
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Demonizing the Homeless
This article looks at how we are demonizing the poor and the homeless, so we don't feel guilty when we punish them for being poor
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Mind Over Matter it's Your Choice
This hub shows that you have to mind about something for it to matter, and that the choice of whether to mind or not is ours to make. Our feelings may tell us don't have a choice but in reality we do.
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The Violet Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa Violacea
This is a look at the life-cycle of the Violet Carpenter bee - Xylocopa Violacea known on the Spanish Costa Blanca as the Mijas bee, The article has many stunning macros of this huge and impressive looking black bee. There is also a must see video where you can see what the inside of a nest looks...
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The Bumblebee
The bumblebee. See gorgeous macros of bumblebees Find out some strange facts about bumblebees like they have smelly feet and find out why they do or how many species of bumblebee there are and much more
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Byrd Park - Richmond Virginia
This hub is about Byrd Park in Richmond Virginia and it contains lots of really stunning photographs of the park and its waterfowl.
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GIMP Tutorial on How to do Selective Coloring
A novice? This easy to follow tutorial is for you because even a novice will have no difficulty following the Step by step instructions. Every click of the mouse is highlighted & illustrated
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How to Use the Patch Tool in Photoshop
This tutorial will take a beginner through the whole process with clear and easy-to-follow instructions. Each step has images to follow along with.
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GIMP Tutorial - How to Create Layers
A beginners tutorial on creating layers in GIMP the open source software. Very clear step by step instructions supported by illustrations at each step. Each illustration has the part you need to click on highlighted, so you know exactly where to find the elements you need.
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The Miami Police Museum
The Miami Police Museum is a must see place to visit. This article tells of the interesting things that you will find on a visit to this museum. The article has lots of photographs of some of the fun and interesting things you get to see and touch on your visit.
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What Galveston Texas has to Offer
A fascinating town to visit see what Galveston has to offer the tourist. Photographs and videos of some of the many points of interest. There is something here for everyone
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Working Class life in the 1940s & 50s – After Wash Day
It is a way of life almost forgotten that is so different from life today. Read this first hand account of what came after washday see how your grandmother use to cope with her chores.
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Working-Class Life in the 1940s: Washday
What were washdays like 60 years ago before there were automatic washing machines? Read this firsthand account of what it was like in a working-class home in Britain on wash day.
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Working Class life in the 1950’s – Train Sets and Train Spotting
A 1950's childhood remembered the focus being on train sets and train spotting. Both train sets and train spotting were very big in the 1950s most boys would at some point own a train set of some description many carried this love of trains with them into adulthood.
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Working Class life in the 1940s and 1950s Britain ~ Train Travel
A first hand account of train travel in the late forties and early fifties as experienced by a young working class child. Also memories recalled of the barrow boys and girls that would meet the trains
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A Tourist’s Guide to ‘The Real Grave of Billy The Kid’
This hub is designed to give you a a first hand real tourist’s eye view of the Billy the Kid tourist attraction. It includes photographs, videos, information and an honest account of our experience
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How to Transform Black and White Photographs into Colour using Photoshop
A really easy to follow tutorial that will show you step by step how to colour a black and white photograph using PhotoShop. Each step is illustrated each click of the mouse is highlighter so that you can follow the steps yourself even if you have never used PhotoShop before. It is an ideal...
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Washington DC on a Tight Budget
How and what to see in Washington DC if you are on a tight budget. See as much as possible for as little as possible. There are photographs included in this article. We had a great visit on the cheap.
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Working Class Life in the 1940s - The Evacuation of the Children
Find out what the children took with them when they were evacuated see how much the host families got paid for each evacuee that they took in. Watch an evacuee telling his story to his grandson.
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Working Class Life in the 1940s & 50s—Bonfire Night
Bonfire Night was a big event in the lives of a working-class children back in the 1950s. A firsthand account of how we celebrated it, who Guy Fawkes was, and why his effigy is still burned.
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Working Class Life in the 1940’s
This article is a first hand account of working class life back in the 1940s. Ordinary life carried on even in the War years and this article lets you take a peek into what life was like back then.
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A Tourist's View of Tombstone Arizona
Tombstone is in our top ten places to see in the United States. This article gives a real insight of what it is like to visit Tombstone as a tourist. Is Tombstone worth visiting? Is it good value for money? Is there lots to see and do? To all these questions I would have to say a resounding yes!...
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Working Class Life in the 1940s & 50s
A fascinating first hand account of working class life in 1940s and 50's which give you a real insight into a lifestyle that has all but disappeared. This article is full of the kind of things that never make it into the history books and allows you to take a peek into what it was like to live in...
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A Summer Holiday Plan? - A Life Lesson
This fascinating article looks at how you can spoil your holiday if you focus on the wrong thing. It is the same for life in general so read about the life lesson one holiday taught me. It is a lesson that if you pay attention to it will improve not only your holiday experiences but also your life;
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Stay at Home Mom or Working Mom? How My Grown Children Feel About the Choice I Made
My choice to be a stay at home mum affected the lives of my children. So the only ones qualified to answer this question are my grown children. In her own words unedited by me is my daughter's answer
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Stay at Home Mom or Working Mom? - Was it Worth it?
This looks at whether the choice I made to be a stay at home mum looking after my children was worth it or not. It looks at the benefits and the disadvantages of being a stay at home mum.
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Stay at Home Mom or Working Mom? The choice of a Working Class Mum
As a working class mum in Britain in the early 1970's I made the choice to be a stay at home mum. Find out why I made that choice and what it was like to be a stay at home mum in the early 1970's.
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How We Got out of Debt
We were so far in debt that we started off every month overdrawn. There seemed no way out. This article tells you how we turned that situation around and became debt free.
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How We Got into Debt
See how easy it was for a family of four to go from just managing to keep their heads above water to drowning in a sea of debts in a relatively short time.
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Working Class Life in England in the 1930s
Here's what life was like for a typical working-class family in Birkenhead during the 1930s.
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Britain’s Definitely Got Talent 2012
The auditions of some of the best acts in the Britain's Got Talent show including the three acts that get through to the finals. The talent showcased on this show is incredibly and each video is well worth watching.
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A Review of the Kodak Z712 IS in Layman’s Terms
The review of this camera has been written for someone who is looking for a point and shoot camera and who doesn't understand all the technical jargon normally associated with camera reviews. This review tells the reader what this camera is like and how it performs in everyday easy to follow...
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The Consequences of Taking Offence
Taking and holding on to an offence can have serious consequences for the person who is holding onto it. Find out what some of those consequences are, in your own life caused by holding on.
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A Story Of Incest And One Of Its After Effects
This story of incest is written from the perspective of a child born as a result of incest. Today I doubt that a twelve-year-old girl would have gone full term but this was the 1940’s.
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Working Class Life - A 1950s Mum and discipline
In the 1940s and early 50s we were brought up and disciplined quite differently to the way that most children are today. This hub allows you to take a peek at how one working class mum did it.
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Working Class Girl in Singapore in the Late 1960s
In March1967 I got married to my husband who was a Petty Officer in Her Majesty’s Royal Navy. Just three and a half months later my husband and I flew out to Singapore on a married accompanied posting.
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A Victorian Woman of Substance
This is the story of a remarkable woman born when Queen Victoria was still on the throne. It tells of life back in the early 1900s and the hardships of raising a family of ten children in a two bedroomed house in Birkenhead. Life back then was very different and every day was a battle.