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• Passage to India Part 9 - My Father's Flight to India in 1934
  To us he was one of the most charming characters that we met -also quite the most picturesque, a man of about 40 - 45, tall, and with the good looks of an Arab he made an imposing figure in his flowing robes, belt full of daggers and bright blue and white spotted handkerchief tied round his head.
  Published 20Jan2010, viewed 167 times

• Passage to India Part 10 - My Father's Flight to India in 1934
  The walls of the house were of mud plaster with the ceilings spanned by date palm poles laid flat and woven together by the fronds of the palms. No windows and no doors except the large entrance one which was bolted and barred at sunset.
  Published 20Jan2010, viewed 169 times

• Passage to India Part 7 - My Father's Flight to India in 1934
  This is the 7th instalment of the story of my father flying to India in 1934 in a single engined plane, a Miles Hawk Major with Lady Blanche Douglas.
  Published 16Dec2009, viewed 179 times

• Passage to India Part 5 - My Father's Flight to India in 1934
  This is the 5th instalment of the story of my father flying to India in 1934 in a single engined plane, a Miles Hawk Major with Lady Blanche Douglas.
  Published 16Dec2009, viewed 194 times

• Passage to India Part 8 - My Father's Flight to India in 1934
  This is the 8th instalment of the story of my father flying to India in 1934 in a single engined plane, a Miles Hawk Major with Lady Blanche Douglas.
  Published 11Dec2009, viewed 203 times

• Passage to India Part 6 - My Father's Flight to India in 1934
  This is the 6th instalment of the story of my father flying to India in 1934 in a single engined plane, a Miles Hawk Major with Lady Blanche Douglas.
  Published 11Dec2009, viewed 174 times

• Passage to India Part 2 - My Father's Flight to India in 1934
  This is the second article about the trip to India by small single engined plane in 1934 which my father made together with Lady Blanche Douglas in her plane, a Miles Hawk Major
  Published 07Dec2009, viewed 211 times

• Passage to India Part 4 - My Father's Flight to India in 1934
  This is the 4th instalment of the story of my father flying to India in 1934 in a single engined plane, a Miles Hawk Major with Lady Blanche Douglas.
  Published 07Dec2009, viewed 194 times

• Passage to India Part 3 - My Father's Flight to India in 1934
  This is the third part of my father's flight to India in 1934 in a single engined monoplane, a Miles Hawk Major, with Lady Blanche Douglas.
  Published 07Dec2009, viewed 186 times

• Passage to India Part 1 - My Father's Flight to India in 1934
  This is the epic story of Lady Blanche Douglas and my father, Flying Officer Ogden, who was an instructor of the Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane club about their trip to India in 1934 via Baghdad, Karachi and Calcutta.
  Published 05Dec2009, viewed 231 times

• UK Road Safety Quiz No 2
  Please have some fun with this quiz and if you have not got 100%, we suggest you purchase a copy of the Highway Code and consider further training.
  Published 10Nov2009, viewed 609 times

• How I became Mondeo Man!
  After visiting lots of showrooms and test driving a couple of cars we ended up with a nine month old Peugeot 406 estate with 9000 miles on the clock. It did us very well, doing sterling service towing the caravan, long journeys to the south of France, acted as a load carrier to the tip (sorry, Household Waste Disposal Site or Dechetterie in France), and as delivery van for our business amongst its other roles.
  Published 10Nov2009, viewed 358 times

• Road Safety in Jamaica -Is it working Part 2
  The road surfaces in Jamaica have to be seen to be believed. There are more pot holes than road surface; the edges of the road are sand and gravel turning to mud very quickly when it rains. As the roads are often only one lane wide vehicles in passing in opposite directions each drive with one set of wheels on the 'verge'.
  Published 10Nov2009, viewed 312 times

• UK Road Safety Quiz No 3
  You have to put a child in the front seat of your car. The law states that an appropriate child restraint must be used if the child is under: a. 3 years of age. b. 5 years of age. c. 9 years of age. d. 12 years of age.
  Published 10Nov2009, viewed 332 times

• Here be Dragons
  Apart from the idiosyncratic signage, the interesting phenomenon in Suffolk was that, despite the plethora of speed limit signs, drivers actually kept to them. Owing, no doubt, to the high volume of traffic in the tourist season, we often encountered long stretches of road with 40 or 30 mph repeaters for no obvious reason.
  Published 25Oct2009, viewed 223 times

• My Introduction to the Middle East
  In February 1970, I was joined my new employer in london, an international bank with , to join their foreign staff, with branches in the MIddle East and Far East. I was even provided with accomodation at their hostel in East Molesley and commuted into Bishopsgate from there.
  Published 08Nov2009, viewed 223 times

• Ten Monster Ways to Get Your Website Working
  To get people to your site, you can use pay per click, put the website on national print advertising, or put it on your cards and flyers and your car. This was the magic part.
  Published 08Nov2009, viewed 174 times

• Your Contact List - The Door to your success in MLM
  Onto your Contact List should go everyone you can remember, going back as far as you can, no matter who they are, how long it is since you saw them or how little you know them. Your Contact List is the most important document in your possession: it is the foundation of your business.
  Published 05Nov2009, viewed 207 times

• UK Road Safety Quiz No 1
  If you are stopped by a uniformed police officer and cannot produce your driving documents at the time, you must produce them at a police station of your choice within: a. 10 days. b. 5 working days. c. 7 days. d. 24 hours.
  Published 05Nov2009, viewed 328 times

• Road Safety in Jamaica -Is it working?
  So is road safety working in Jamaica to reduce deaths on the road. Probably not. Is all this working? According to the statistics for 2009, they have a target this year for no more than 300 fatalities on Jamaican roads, yet they have already had 241 as at 23rd September 2009!
  Published 04Nov2009, viewed 184 times

• A buzz we did not expect in Jamaica - a 1st impression
  We had decided to try the Caribbean as a January destination as it is always warm the whole year, the people speak English, the country is stable economically and otherwise, and it offered scuba diving. I was coming to scuba dive whilst Alison was coming to do some sunbathing at the pool. But we discovered a "buzz" that which had not been described in the guide books..
  Published 04Nov2009, viewed 207 times

• My Most Memorable Cars -1968 to 1995
  I was working in Swaziland and needed a cheap reliable car as I could not afford a Mercedes. So I bought a 3 year old Toyota Cressida Estate with a 2.4 litre petrol engine. It was perfect for the mountain roads in Swaziland.
  Published 04Nov2009, viewed 218 times

• Getting Leads in Network Marketing - the Fishpond Activity
  This is generally known as fishpond activity ie the more rods you have in the pond, the more fish you will catch.
  Published 04Nov2009, viewed 242 times

• The Mystery Sign
  As we approached we saw yet another sign to Dechetterie. We could not leave France without discovering what this was so, after purchasing our cheese we boldly went where no British person has ever been before. We followed the signs down the road to the very depths of the retail park and there the mystery was revealed. A Dechetterie..........
  Published 22Oct2009, viewed 209 times

• Retailing with a Catalogue - Building a Customer Base
  The objective for all new distributors is to build a customer base of around 350 regular customers as quickly as possible. If you want a full time income, then find 1000-2000 custoers within 6 months.
  Published 19Oct2009, viewed 298 times

• Retailing with a Catalogue - Distribution
  The best way to start is by going out of your house and turning left or right and start putting catalogues through letterboxes. Do not be shy or embarrassed about cataloguing in your own area.
  Published 19Oct2009, viewed 450 times

• 10 Tried & Tested Ways to Increase Your Sales
  10 tried and tested ways of increasing sales which have worked for us.
  Published 19Oct2009, viewed 322 times

• 10 Tried & Tested Ways to get a Website working for you
  These are tips we have found useful in the 9 years we have been using a website.
  Published 19Oct2009, viewed 439 times

• Using Voicemail to Build a Network Marketing Business
  We think the biggest advantage with the service is that you can contact everybody in your team by making one phone call.
  Published 18Oct2009, viewed 715 times

• Working From Home - just one experience
  Michael tried various work after redundancy, but found them all unrewarding. Alison had been made redundant the same year of 1995 having been an army officer for 22 years, but wanted to take a year off.
  Published 03Sep2009, viewed 304 times

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