Foreign Perspectives

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It’s nearing the end of the winter so it’s a good time to start thinking about how you’d like your garden to look this spring.

Garden Furniture will no doubt feature highly in your thoughts and it’s good to see that it’s available online these days as often the selection in local garden centres seems to be exactly the same as that which you saw 20 years ago. It doesn’t have to be like that and you can get some really stylish furniture in your garden if you look around.

Don’t think that just because it’s for the garden that it’ll be cheap. Cheap just means that you’ll end up throwing it out next year but if you choose well good quality garden furniture will last for many years and make a major difference to how your home feels too: think of it more as a home improvement than just a few cheapo chairs to put in the garden.

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Whilst it’s great to have Wordpress available free, what’s not so hot is that now and again you hit little bugs in the software that you can’t do a whole lot about.

For example, at the moment, I’m continually getting “MySQL server has gone away” which is a time-out thing. There is a fix for it but unfortunately not for the version of Wordpress that I’m running at the moment so I’m going to have to upgrade to a newer version soonish.

Ordinarily, I’d have upgraded right away but I want to move the blog to a new hosting service too and I’m having problems with the blogs that I’ve already moved so I’m going to try and live with that “server has gone away” message for a while yet as I don’t want to do the upgrade on the old hosting service.

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If it’s been a while since you learnt to speak German, chances are that you’re a little rusty and in need of a refresher on the vocabulary and grammar.

If that sounds like you then the information on the German language at elanguageschool might be ideal.

I’m not sure that you could learn the language from scratch using the information that they have on the site but it would work very well as a refresher if your German is a little rusty as it’s quite a comprehensive run-down of the language covering the both basic vocabulary and grammar (actually, quite a lot of the grammar).

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