Hi there yur message box is full, so I cant send you a message.......
Wanna clear some space
Cx

Congratulations..... hope you have a wonderful day and a great year!

Hi All

well I have been out of the fray for a long time now and was wondering if anyone feels like meeting up sometime this week. I am based in Norht London, but traveling to the City doesnt "bovver" me at all. Drop me a line or reply to this thread.
Look forward to some replies
Cx

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No what happened to the :rainy: they promised us! ??

Have a great Saturday everyone! :yes:

may you two have a wonderful Birthday

:bday3:

mazeltov

think that men are better drivers... :crylol:

Well what did you expect :p

10 tips

I save my fridge defrosting for the holidays , then chuck out the frozen ice and leave the kids to do what they like with it. They know not to eat it!, but its a great fun way for them to keep cool and have fun

The beach is a great way to keep my kids happy for a few hours of the day. Cheap and endless activities to keep them occupied.

I'm looking forward to taking them to our local Pick Your Own Fruit farm; they have strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries an more. They have great fun, then we bring what's left home and make fruit crumble with it.

What are your survival tips?

A little bit of history first.

During the summer holidays the school I work at is having a brand new IT suite installed. Part of the new stuff we have order are some TFT Monitors. These were ordered from a company in Essex! We were promised delivery on Wednesday. Thursday morning cam and still no delivery. The company tried to get hold of the driver who they had been using for almost 30 years and he was not answering his phone. Aparently he did deliveries all over the country and is normally away for a week at a time. The police were called and the tracking device on the lorry was activated. The police found the lorry, all the cab doors open and the back doors open. The driver's mobile was still in the cab. We were told this morning that the driver's body has been found.

Please keep his family in your thoughts. As yet we don't have any details.
This person is a complete stranger but by the cruel actions of people many lives have been effected. :RIP:

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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange was the 7th best performing stock market in 2005, according to the World Federation of Exchanges

South Africa ranks 50th in the world in terms of economic freedom, according to the Index of Economic Freedom 2006

Home ownership in SA has increased from 64% (5,12m households) in 1994 to 78% (7,9m households) in 2004, according to a South African Advertising Research Foundation development index

Pretoria has the second largest number of embassies in the world after Washington, D.C.

Interest rates are at a 25-year low

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South Africa accounts for almost 45% of the GDP of the entire African continent, with an economy three times the size of the second biggest (Egypt)

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The University of South Africa UNISA is a pioneer of tertiary distance education and is the largest correspondence university in the world with 250,000 students

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The rand, the world's most actively traded emerging market currency, has joined an elite club of 15 currencies - the Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) - where forex transactions are settled immediately, lowering the risks of transacting across time zones

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South Africa has 37 000 high net-wealth individuals (holding at least US$1million in financial assets) in 2004, according to the World Wealth Report

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South Africa is the 32nd best place in the world to do e-business (tied with Poland), according to the Economist Intelligence Report.

South Africa is the best-ranked country in terms of price stability, our fiscal policy is ranked 11th, our international trade competitiveness 21st, and we are the 28th most-attractive destination for foreign direct investment, according to the World Competiveness Yearbook 2005

South African business owners of mid-size companies are the second most optimistic worldwide about their economic prospects of the year ahead, according to the annual Grant Thorton International Business Owners Survey for 2005.

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The value of South African real estate improved by 30% over the past 5 years

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Tax revenue in SA has increased by 220% over the past 10 years

In 2005, 10 million South Africans benefited from access to social grants

The number of tourists visiting South Africa has grown by 116% since 1994

Over the past 5 years, Consumer Confidence in SA has improved by 43%.

In the global measure of women in Parliament, South Africa ranks 8th in the world.

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The current police to population ratio is 1:304.