Times Online (Free subscription) | 23 hours ago
It all started so well. Back in precredit-crunch 2006, my boyfriend, Andrew, and I eagerly bought a two-bedroom flat in leafy Epsom, Surrey, for £220,000. Smug to be first-time buyers while only in our twenties, and desperate to escape awful landlords, we were too happy to be ascending the first rung of the property ladder really to consider what we were buying... and how we were buying it.
GetSetPet.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Scruffy (6 yrs) and Stimpy (5yrs) mother and son looking for a loving home together. Both neutered and vaccinated and extremely friendly and affectionate. For more information on cats, please phone Audrey Royal on 01883-331367
GetSetPet.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Jacko is a three year old ginger and white male cat. Very shy and would like a quiet home with plenty of TLC. His owners moved and left him behind so he has been fending for himself poor boy For more information on cats, please phone Audrey Royal on 01883-331367
GetSetPet.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
AZZ BREED: LURCHER SEX: FEMALE AGE: 12 MONTHS COLOUR: BLACK DOG FRIENDLY: YES CAT FRIENDLY: UNKNOWN CHILDREN: YES This beautiful one year old female came into rescue with a badly set broken leg, which then had to be amputated. She has adjusted extremely well to life on three legs and can outrun all her dog friends with four. She would [...]
GetSetPet.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
BUSTER BREED: ROUGH COATED TERRIER SEX: MALE AGE: 5 YEARS COLOUR: TAN AND WHITE DOG FRIENDLY: YES CAT FRIENDLY: YES CHILDREN: NOT SUITABLE Buster is a typical terrier. He loves his toys and will play contended on his own with a ball, throwing in the air and then chasing it. His current home can sadly no longer keep him but advise [...]
GetSetPet.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
FREDDIE BREED: STAFFIE SEX: MALE AGE: 3 YEARS COLOUR: BRINDLE DOG FRIENDLY: YES CAT FRIENDLY: YES CHILD FRIENDLY: NOT SUITABLE Freddie has come into rescue as his owner can no longer cope. He is extremely nervous of strangers and we are investigating whether he has suffered some damage to his eyes previously which may affect his ability to focus and judge distance. Despite this, [...]
GetSetPet.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
TICKY BREED: SMALL CROSSBREED (DACHSHUND/STAFFIE) SEX: FEMALE AGE: APP 3 YRS COLOUR: BRINDLE DOG FRIENDLY: YES CAT FRIENDLY: UNKNOWN CHILD FRIENDLY: YES OLDER Ticky is a real sweetie, a bit shy at first but then quite happy to spend all day being fussed!! We know she has previously lived with another dog and is quite happy walking with all the others large and [...]
GetSetPet.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
DOTTY BREED: ENGLISH BULL TERRIER CROSS SEX: FEMALE AGE: APP 2 YEARS COLOUR: WHITE WITH BLACK DOTS DOG FRIENDLY: YES CATS: UNKNOWN CHILDREN: YES OLDER Sadly poor Dotty is totally deaf and because of this she has undergone a very poor start in life and due to people’s intolerance and ignorance has been passed from home to home. Despite this, [...]
Pro-Tel & VIS-à-VIDEO (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
VIS-à-VIDEO wins prize as IOV Convention 2009 2009 is proving to be another great year for Ines Telling from Vis-à-Video of Epsom Downs, Surrey. She was awarded a ‘Highly Commended’ place in the ‘Best Wedding Day Film 2009′ category against extremely tough competition. Ines is also enjoying a successful year despite the economic recession and currently [...]
Risky Regencies (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Here is a tale from: ACCREDITED GHOST STORIES. COLLECTED BY T. M. JARVIS, ESQ. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. ANDREWS, NEW BOND STREET. 1823. ( Google Books ) It is the tale of Lord Lyttleton. Not the "great and good" Lord Lyttleton, but his "witty and profligate" son, who in 1778 (a little before the Regency- I exaggerated) "retired from the metropolis, with a party of his loose and...
Leatherhead Residents Association (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Doubtless many residents have already seen notices on lamp posts in certain streets concerning Surrey County Council - District of Mole Valley proposals for the above. This is the result of consultation exercises in certain roads earlier this years when the inhabitants of those roads were given the opportunity to comment on proposals made by the Council. To the best of my knowledge, the roads are:...
The Landlord Law Blog (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
I have just read an interesting case (Hunt v. Hussesin, Epsom County Court) in the housing section of the Legal Action Magazine , which should serve as an awful warning to landlords tempted to lock out their tenants. In May 2003 Mr Hunt took on an assured shorthold tenancy of a room from Mr and Mrs Hussein, at a weekly rent of £90. However three months later he lost his job. It looks from the...
Marketing by Permission (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
As both my regular readers will know, I was educated at Epsom College, in deepest commuter Surrey. I had a mixed time there, getting a reasonable education, growing up a lot, getting into trouble, and falling in love for the first time. It was, and is, a fine example of its type, catering for parents who believe that they receive better value in the private sector (hence the term "Public School...
Yours for Good Fermentables ™ (Free subscription) | 04/10/2009
What the firkin * is the SPBW ? Here, from the SPBW's website : It all began on the evening of Friday, 6th December, 1963 when seven disgruntled beer drinkers gathered in the Rising Sun in Epsom [in Surrey, in southeast England] . Their concern was the growing decline in both quality and palatability of beer. This they felt was due to the increasing use of gas pressure dispense and the introduction...
Green Options (Free subscription) | 23/09/2009
The UK is undergoing a small crisis of parenting at present. The reason is that there has been an outbreak of E.coli , in one of its most virulent forms: 0157, which causes kidney damage in a small proportion of people contracting it, and the outbreaks have been linked to two city farms visited by children with their parents or as part of school groups. City Zoos linked to disease outbreak Forty-nine...
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