Archive for: November 2007

My wonderful 18 year old (nearly 19) daughter Miranda got her Baccalauriat International this year with the highest marks in her group for the whole department - she was asked to go up into a “high falutin” University streamer, but …

Sixteen years ago in France I started developing an old property in the super Mediterranean hillside village of Sorede as our family home. We are now selling this as I want to concentrate on our new Internet businesses, the market …

This November has been a long steep mountain climb, like Mount Doom in Lord of the Rings.

Business has been horrid - people are not buying houses and prices are definitely dropping, so income has been zero (actually a …

I always try to have a back-up power supply but this is something else - how about a three megawatt generator for your emergency power.

A friend of mine is selling a complete power supply big enough for a small town …

I have been planning to create a community website for wine drinkers - because I am a wine drinker and I live in France, I even have a name for my website ( www.winorati.com ) but it is right at …

Driving today is not a very exciting occupation. When I first had a car (and bikes) there was no speedlimit, no crash helmet, passing your test was a simple thing, no annual roadworthy tests, (very often no brakes), no breathalysers …