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Bad Credit? See the Remortgage Guild

May 28, 2007 by Tricia

If you live in the UK and you have a poor credit rating you might want to check out remortgageguild.co.uk. This company states that remortgages are possible with bad credit. They actually specialize in finding mortgages for people with poor credit ratings such as those with County court judgments, debts, or even those who have declared bankruptcy.

You know what they say about restaurants? If they specialize in chicken get the chicken, if it’s pub – don’t order a fillet mignon, and so on … well I think the same is true with banking, loans and lending companies. Go to the one that specializes in what you need.

Contact the Remortgage Guild if you have credit problems and they’ll put you in touch with a specialist who will give you some financial advice and get you a quote on a new mortgage.

Maybe you don’t really need a new mortgage but you need a loan for something else? Well, getting that remortgage could actually free up some of your homes equity and get you some extra money that will allow you to purchase the new car that you need, or renovate your home.

Visit the Remortgage Guild today and see what they can do for you.





Filed Under: Finance, Home and Lifestyle Tagged With: bad credit, bank, bankruptcy, company, County court judgments, debts, extra money, financial, home, loan, mortgage, poor credit, remortgage, Remortgage guild, renovate, Uk

Hiccups

May 28, 2007 by Tricia

You know that woman that made the news this year because she’d had the hiccups for a year or so? Well … if that was me I would never have made it that long.

When I get the hiccups it’s painful. It always has been. Each hiccup gets stronger and stronger and hurts more and more. Now that I have Crohns it’s almost unbearable, and unfortunately I get the hiccups quite often. Whenever I eat a food that’s kind of dry in fact.

Chris came home from work a little while ago, and then he went out to the store to get some things that will help when we put the air-conditioners in the windows in a while and while he was out he stopped off at Tim Hortons and got me an Ice-Cap and a croissant.

Well … I started to eat the croissant and the hiccups started. Chris ran to get me a big glass of water, because water does help with my dry food related hiccups. However, as he neared me I had him put his hand on my stomach so that he could feel my guts rolling around with each hiccup. My insides, not just my diaphragm, seem to roll around when I get hiccups. Maybe I’ve got some scar tissue in there from the Crohns that makes this happen.

I feel sorry for that woman that’s had hiccups for so long. I really do. I know with mine, if I had them for more than a few minutes I’d be going nuts with the pain. I’d never make a whole year of hiccups without being sedated or something.

Do your hiccups hurt or are they just irritating?

Filed Under: Health Fitness and Beauty, Inflammatory bowel disease Tagged With: crohns, dry food, eat, Food, glass of water, Health and Fitness, Health Fitness and Beauty, Hiccups, hiccups for a year, IBD, Inflammatory bowel disease, insides move with hiccups, irritating, pain, painful hiccups, stomach, water

Practical solutions for small living spaces

May 28, 2007 by Tricia

Our house is kind of small. It’s an old 1927 home built with beautiful hardwood and solidly built, but it’s small. The three bedrooms are small, the basements unfinished and there’s only TWO closets in the whole house. I guess back in 1927 people weren’t clothes hogs and didn’t need more than two closets in a home?

Given that our home is on the small side, or rather than some of the rooms in the home are on the small side I’m always trying to figure out ways to save space, not make the home look cluttered, and of course to give the illusion that the rooms are a little larger than they really are.

I’ve done that by carefully selection our home furniture, using various design techniques, including wall and ceiling color and of course all kinds of space saving organizers.

Right now it’s our “middle” bedroom that I’m thinking about. Our master bedroom is the largest bedroom, but by todays standards it’s probably smaller than most kids rooms! I think it’s 13 feet by 10 feet. Yeah, kind of small. Our middle bedroom is the second largest, and the one on at the south end of the house is, well, the size of a decent washroom. Really!

Anyway, we have our old double bed that we used in our apartment in the middle bedroom. What a comfortable bed that is. Unfortunately it literally takes up about 2/3’s of the room. Some day I’d like to use that room as a nursery, but until that time comes I was thinking that it could be used as a nice den.

If we got a murphy bed we could get rid of the double bed that’s in there. Murphy beds stand up against a wall and sometimes come with really nice cabinets that make them look like really nice standing cupboards. Certainly if we got one like that we’d get a bit of extra storage space on the sides of the unit.

The bed could remain hidden most of the time and the room could have a desk on the opposite side to be used for a computer or something. It might work.

I’ll have to think on this some more and investigate the cost of Murphy beds. It is a practical solution for small living spaces though.

Filed Under: Decor, Great Sites, Home and Lifestyle, Home Decor, Home Renovation, Shopping Tagged With: 1927 house, ceiling, closets, design, furniture, home, Home Decor, living space, murphy bed, no storage space, organize, practical solutions, redecorating, Shopping, small, small house, small living space, small rooms, storage space, wall unit

Where’d everybody go?

May 28, 2007 by Tricia

Wow, seems pretty dead out there. Every site I go to has less comments and less activity than normal today. Are all of my American friends partying it up today?

I don’t even know – Is there a special parade on Memorial Day?

Well, whatever you’re up to, I hope that you’re enjoying your extra day off.

We’re busy here putting in our window air-conditioners because the rest of the week is set to be hot, hot, hot! Along with the heat it tends to get very humid here. I can take one or the other but heat and humidity combined are just too much.

Is it getting warm in your neck of the woods?

Filed Under: Home and Lifestyle, Recreation Tagged With: airconditioner, heat, hot, humidity, memorial day, missing people, where did you go

A touch of purity

May 27, 2007 by Tricia

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I enjoy the all of my spring flowers but I think I like the white flowers the best. When it grows dark at night I can still see them glowing white in the garden beds. They highlight other plants through the day, and give them cover as they grow. Beautiful, beautiful white tulips.

I hope to get around to all the Green Thumbers sometime tomorrow. Sorry that this post is late but I’ve had a rough day. It’s almost a new day …

Gardeners, Plant and Nature lovers can join in every Sunday, visit As the Garden Grows for more information.

Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Photography, Recreation Tagged With: beautiful, flower, flowers, garden, light, macro, photo, photos, picture, plant, plants, spring, tulip, White tulip

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