UK passport renewal in Spain
If you need a UK passport renewal whilst living in Spain then the link below will take you to the website where you can download and print off all the necessary forms for a passport renewal, a first time passport and a passport for children. Remember a child’s passport only lasts for 5 years, not 10 as adults, and it can catch you out if you don’t check.
The child’s class teacher can sign the photographs and near the police station in Marbella there is a passport booth.
http://ukinspain.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/passports/
Chain Mail
I have just received this.
“This year, July has 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays and 5 Sundays. This happens once every 823 years. This is called money bags. So, forward this to your friends and money will arrive within 4 days. Based on Chinese Feng Shui. The one who does not forward…..will be without money.”
Do adults really think that there is some power out there in the atmosphere that would give you money because you happen to forward a crass email like this to people? Where was that power when the tsunami hit Japan?
Enter the lottery, buy a premium bond ticket but please don’t send me chain emails…..
Stomping off now to eat some chocolate……
Argos Review
I ordered last week from Argos some perfume to be delived by courier yesterday for my mother in law’s birthday gift. The courier charge was £5.95 which I paid as the actual item was less than in many other online shops.
Mistake.
Today my mum in law had to tell us that no birthday gift had arrived. Argos have told me they are very sorry ( well I want to see your blood) and they have now arranged for delivery on Monday, a whole five days later than I ordered and several days after the birthday. No discount off the delivery charge. (Argos Customer Service can courier over 4 fingers and 3 of their toes and I will kindly accept that as a suitable discout.)
This is the second time that I have had just terrible delivery from Argos and safe to say, the last…..
UPDATE 21st February
After a 3rd email Argos Customer Services offered to refund my £5.95 delivery charge.
You don’t need drugs
to get high. Just blow and blow on a fire that won’t light.
The Latin Temperament
would be considerable eased if they switched from drinking coffee to drinking Typhoo tea.
Helpful-Ideas.com is now a DO FOLLOW website
I have just installed a plug in making helpful-ideas.com a do follow website for those that leave more than one comment, it means you get some link juice from mine to your own website but only if you leave comments that I approve. So if you talk about valium, blow up dolls or penis enlargement I’m afraid I can’t guarantee any extra help…..Otherwise happy to provide some help..if it works. 
Lack of human rights in Iran
I don’t usually post things unless I’ve researched them enough to know that they aren’t just soundbites from the press but from what I can see this looks genuine and the fact that German journalists are involved and in prison for their involvement also add credibility not to mention the huge amount of press this poor woman is getting.
To summarize a woman in Iran was due to be stoned for adultery, even though her husband had died. This was postponed and now a new trumped up case against her has been added which means that she can be executed today in an attempt to stop the public outcry to save her.
More information here, the more publicity this receives and the more eyes on Iran, there is a chance they may hold fire on murdering this woman….
http://stopstonningnow.com/wpress/4194
UPDATE 4th November…reports are in that she has not been stoned to death and the sentence could now change to being hung to death instead, but at least it appears that the execution for now has not taken place.