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Translation sevices

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Do you speak two or three languages well? Have you ever thought of becoming, or are you a translator?

If so, you might be interested in taking a look at Translation Services. This site is becoming known as a translation marketplace. Companies looking for translators for their multilingual projects need look no further as there is a huge data base of translators and interpreters available.

The site is easy to use. Translators can register and create a profile listing the languages they speak and the services they could provide, and companies in need or translation services can browse through the database of translators and find one suitable for their projects needs.






Looking for love in the UK

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Loopy Love. Isn’t that a great name for the first UK free online singles dating site. I think it is. I thought that perhaps some of my UK readers who might be trying to find love in the UK might want to check out Loopy love.

The site states that each week, two or three marriages occur between members who met on Loopy love, and that there are 100’s of satisfied members as well.

What’s different about this online dating company, when compared to others, is that there is no initial joining fee. That’s right the service is totally free since it’s funded by the advertising on the site. Now, how many free online or otherwise dating sites are you aware of? Probably very few. Most dating sites charge the male members at the very least.

You can begin your very first search from the front page. Simply choose who you are looking for, man or woman, select the age group that you are interested in, then list an area of the UK in which to find your new love, and hit the quick search button and see how many potential matches you’ve made.

Once you are registered, you are a full member. This only takes minutes BTW, and you’ll be able to do more in depth searches. It would probably be a good idea to complete your profile, and include a photo of yourself first before you start searching. Just in case you make a quick match. Then, once you’ve registered you can run full searches that include more detail than the quick search on the front page, such as searching for someone with a specific hair colour, eye colour, body type, height, ethnicity, religion, education, employment, industry, income, whether they drink or smoking and so on.

All of the members are from the UK, so where ever you are in the UK you should be able to find someone close by who wants to try dating. Maybe several some bodies if you are really lucky. You can receive match alerts by email, plus chat with other members online before meeting them too. I almost forgot, along with adding photos to your profile, there is a video profile option as well. What could be better than seeing a potential match via video.

Visit Loopy love if you are looking to date someone in your area.

It’s freezing!

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I’m writing this post to record our first frost. Well I think it’s the first. it’s -2 c outside right now and I believe that’s the first time it’s dipped below zero. Brrrrr Well at least all the silly roses in my garden will hopefully get the message that it’s time to shut down and stop blooming. Yes – my roses are still blooming. They always seem to bloom into mid November or so.

I guess it’s time for me to get outside – not now, it’s cold – and clean up the garden and start putting it to bed. I always mound some compost or peat around the roses to protect the roots. I buried the root ball several inches below the soil level when I planted the roses but the mounds that I put around the base of the roses in the fall give them further protection in the winter.

We don’t tend to get a lot of snow here. Yes it does snow and sometimes we get quite a lot but it melts away fairly quickly. The air however stays very cold. The temps can fall to more than -20 c and worse with the wind factored in. If my garden doesn’t have a good snow cover or a cover that I’ve created with my mounds of compost and piles of leaves the plants will be more suceptable to freeze damage.

I’m not looking foward to putting the garden to bed this year. It’s a big job what with us having 60 roses plus all the other plants. We’ll manage to get it done though.

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