Scottie James Grainger

If you read my blog regularly you’ll know that I’m always trying to spend my money on various different things like the house or new gadgets, but seen as the summer is well and truly here I’m now looking for a garden gazebo to provide a bit of shade and somewhere to sit in the garden.

I’ve been looking at permanent wooden gazebos because we already have a nice wooden furniture set and it would fit nicely inside. There is also a patio area next to where I want to put it which has a brick barbeque on it (put in by the previous owners) that we use all the time.

I have found a company called the African Thatch Company that sells thatched gazebos at a great price; they are built on a base and come with a ten year warranty. There are also lots of optional extras to choose from including canvas side panels, straight log sides instead of balustrades and roof mounted heaters. An installation service is also available, so all you have to do sit back and relax!

I think I may of just talked myself into one, now to convince the wife!

I’m quite lucky that I have a group of good mates and we hang out all the time, so when one of them is getting married it’s time to sort out a stag party. We were looking at going to a city like Liverpool or London for a couple of nights, but looking at the cost (especially for hotel rooms), we have decided to rent a holiday villa in Portugal for a week.

We are looking at the Algarve in the south of Portugal and have already found a couple of villas from between €1200 – €2000 for a week, which have private swimming pools and large terraces to have barbeques and chill out on.

The stag party isn’t until the end of September and the final figures on who’s coming aren’t in yet (I think there are 10 of us so far), but we hope to have it all booked within a fortnight. I can’t wait, what could be better than chilling out in a holiday villa, next to a private pool with a cold beer in your hands?

My wife has recently got into playing online bingo, mainly because her friends have also started and they can chat to one another online. They have chosen Ladies.888.com as you can get a £25 welcome bonus for depositing just £10, but if you don’t want to deposit any money you will get £5 for just registering.

As you can expect the Ladies.888.com interface is geared towards women with lots of pink and white boxes, but men can also join and you usually see a few men in the chat area.

Now I’m all for my wife chatting to her friends and playing a bit of bingo, but the laptop is now being high jacked all night . I don’t mind that much anyway because I can watch the football in peace and always use the PC if I need too.

She hasn’t won so far but will keep you posted when she does.

I’m in the market for a new mobile phone and since the new iPhone 4 was unveiled last week I have to say I’m tempted. The design is as usual simple yet iconic and the range of new features is enough to make anyone’s mouth water.

The iPhone 4 has a screen resolution of 640 x 960, which is four times better than the iPhone 3GS and has toughened glass on the front as well as the back; Apple state that this new glass is 30 times stronger than plastic, so should make the device highly durable.

The iPhone 4 also boasts a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, which can also record video up to 720p at 30 fps and a front mounted camera is also built-in giving the device video calling capabilities that Apple call FaceTime.

The iPhone 4 is available for pre-order now, £499 for the 16GB version and £599 for the 32GB version and will start shipping on the 24th June.

Whether I will end up getting one will depend on what contracts there are, but I will definitely be going down to my local shop to try it out when its released.

After you have had enough experience on the road, you instructor feel you are ready and you have passed your theory test you can now take your practical driving test, you can book to take your test in either the car from your driving school in Newcastle or your own if you wish.

Before you take your practical test you examiner will firstly give you an eyesight check, here you have to be able to read a number plate that either 20.5 meters for an old style number plate and 20 meters for the new style. You have 3 chances to read the number plate correctly, if your examiner is satisfied you can then you will proceed with the next part however if he is not satisfied then you will not be able to continue on with your test.

Before you set out on the road you will be asked two vehicle safety questions which are about basic vehicle safety and maintenance which the driver should carry out to ensure the vehicle is safe for use, they will be one ’show me’ and one ‘tell me’. If you get one or both questions wrong it will result in one driving fault being recorded.

You set out and your examiner will examine your general driving and if you adhere to road safety, they will also ass you on two exercises which could be either reversing around a corner, turn in the road and reverse parking. Your examiner will have gone through these exercises with you to make sure you are competent. You test will last round 40 minutes and once you arrive back at the test centre you will be informed whether you have passed your test or failed. If yoiu fail your test the examiner will go through where you went wrong and give you hints and tips where you need to improve.

If you do fail it’s important to get straight back into it and continue practicing with your driving school Newcastle so you can take your test again.

The guest bedroom has been waiting to be finished for a couple of months now, the walls have been painted and carpet is down, but it now needs furnishing. I have been putting off ordering a guest bed because we haven’t needed the room, but I have some family staying at the end of the month so I need to get it sorted.

I was originally looking at getting a small double bed, but have decided to get a sofa bed instead so that we can put another TV or maybe computer in there, making it a dual purpose room. I am also going to build a storage unit which we can store spare duvets and pillows as well as be a stand to put the TV on. A bedside table and lamp will finish the look, so I best get searching as I’ve only got two weeks to finish it.

As the world moves closer and closer to a completely digital means of communication and our lives become increasingly busy, a greater number of people have turned to online dating as a means of meeting people.  It goes without saying that this is a completely unique social dynamic that might confuse some people the first time they visit an online dating site.

Despite this change, if you take into consideration a few words of wisdom the search can be a little less random and the results better.  First and foremost, it is important to first consider the type of website you wish to create a profile on.  While most websites operate on a profile system, much like a personal ad, there are a few distinctions that set these sites apart.  Typically, most websites only differ across the number of profiles, the types of additional services offered, and the types of candidates targeted; the choice of site will directly affect how you will move forward.

Once a site is selected, take a quick look at other profiles that have already been established.  Any buzzwords, profile formatting and styles should be considered the norm, and used to create your profile.  Be careful though, as overused terms can make a person look clichéd, and should be avoided at all costs.  Finally, above all tell the truth, and don’t sugar coat the details of your personal life.  Confidence is attractive, but terms like “cuddly” and “strong willed’ will send people away just as quickly as “chubby” and “obnoxious”.

Once you have passed your theory test and your instructor feels you are ready to take your driving test you can book your test online, your test can be taken in your instructors car from a driving school in Cardiff or your own car if you prefer and you can have someone with you and the examiner when you take your test such as your instructor, a friend or a relative.

The driving test includes an eyesight check, if you fail this you will not be able to continue on with your test, the check requires you to read a number plate that either 20.5 meters for an old style number plate and 20 meters for the new style. You have 3 chances to read the number plate correctly if the examiner is satisfied you don’t meet the required eyesight standard the examiner will fail you. When you start at a driving school in Bury St Edmunds or wherever you live your instructor will check your eyesight to make sure you can read at the required distance.

After you pass they eyesight part of the test you will then be asked two vehicle safety questions, these are basic safety checks that a driver should carry out to ensure the vehicle is safe for use which will be one ’show me’ and one ‘tell me’. If one or both questions are answered incorrectly it will result in one driving fault being recorded.

Your examiner will now examine you on your general driving and on two reversing exercises these will be chosen from reversing around a corner, turn in the road and reverse parking all of which your instructor will have taken you through in your lessons.

Erectile Dysfunction is a physical disorder that affects one in four males. It occurs when the penis cannot become or stay erect and is caused by various psychological and physical issues. While this physical disorder is difficult to openly discuss, some 5% of 40-year-old males and 25% of 65-year-old males are known to have erectile dysfunction happen to them at some point in their lives. Medical experts provide support by testing and treatment to help men improve their sex lives. Vardenafil, a drug specifically designed for this purpose, is co-marketed by pharmaceutical companies, Bayer, GlaxoSmithKline and Schering-Plough.

Vardenafil is sold under the trade name Levitra and like Viagra and Cialis it works by preventing the PDE5 enzyme from controlling blood flow into the penis, thus causing an erection and preventing erectile dysfunction. If you look at the structure of the drug, it is different from that of Sildenafil because of the placement of the nitrogen atom and the piperazine ring of sildenafil changing into an ethyl group from a methyl group. Tadalafil is structured differently from similar drugs, while Vardenafil is known to have the shortest duration of potency when compared to other drugs designed to prevent erectile dysfunction.

Levitra shares some of the side effects associated with using erectile dysfunction drugs, including pains in the abdomen, back and muscle; palpitations, nausea, hypotension, rashes, itching, abnormal vision and priapism. While the following side effects are rare, the drug has been documented as causing heart attacks and might damage tissue around the penis, possibly making impotence permanent.

Well I’m shutting up shop for t shirt printing on eBay. Although it made a little extra it wasn’t really worth the hassle of the few returns that you get and people moaning about things.

My Second batch again pretty much doubled my profits, but this time I had a few returns which in turn doubled my postage costs. I could charge people to send the stuff back out but I don’t really think that it’s fair.

Selling the shirts isn’t really that hard or even ordering the t shirt printing, it’s having all the correct sizes in and once you’re sold out then you’re sold out, and there is nothing you can do about it.
If I had a printing machine it would be a lot easier as I would only need to stock shirts in colours and sizes and I could have unlimited t shirt designs