http://www.couchsurfing.org
Stay on someone’s sofa for free anywhere.

http://www.uship.com
Get paid to ship goods while travelling.

http://www.elance.com
Do freelance work  from anywhere.

http://stripe.com
Accept credit card payments online.

Is there a website that can store this data for me? What if I don’t have Internet access when I need it?

Followed by a swirling mist, a coloured haze,
which way to go, I’m in a maze,
no need to worry, it’s all done for me,
never once in life did I feel so free.

Looking down I see my body there,
I’m facinated, and have to stare,
so detatched and free of worldly ties,
my spirit soars towards the skies.

Of what importance was my life,
I fathered some children, abandoned a wife.
Tried and tried as much as I could,
to be friendly and helpful and most times good.

Yet it seemed no matter how I tried,
so many against me, I often cried;
I fought so much to be just me,
but never once found harmony.
Expected to abide to the rank and file,
I never found enough time to smile,
it was like swimming strong against a stream,
my fifty years was but a dream.

But now a new start in some distant place,
where no-one knows my unknown face.
What form I’ll take I do not know,
I feel myself begin to grow.

One body disintergrates within a tomb,
another embodied within someones womb.
In nine months time I can start again,
you know I rather hope I’ll be the same.

Perhaps this time I’ll learn to cope,
for life could be good, I feel some hope,
thank God for this chance to try once more,
I really feel quite secure.

As my new body forms, my mind grows dim,
I can’t remember who I’ve been,
or where I was or from whence I came.
Just know I’m warm, and loved again.

From rockpoetry.co.uk

1. Put eggs into cold water and boil it. Start your egg timer when the water is boiled and wait approximately 2,5 minutes.
2. Boil you water and put you eggs in it. Wait approximately 4,5  minutes.

Bon Appétit.

In front … about of them stood two hundred or more, they slowly shuffled along.
He was small and felt weak and his body was sore, but his mind was active and strong.

Behind them another five hundred about, all Jews brought from far and from wide,
and now they’d been told with a kick and a shout, that they’d be well cared for inside.

They entered the wire and stood bleary eyed, surveying the desolate scene.
The mother reached for the baby that cried, and wiped its bottom clean.

A rough arm grabbed them and pulled them apart, and hustled them off to a shed.
The woman felt an ache in her heart, as she noticed her baby had bled.

As the door was slammed shut, they sat on the floor, there was nothing else for to do.
Packed into the shed two hundred or more, from dead silence a chattering grew.

For three days they were left without food or drink, their baby continually cried.
With everyone’s filth no one noticed the stink, from the few that had lain down and died.

The bolts being drawn wide, the doors opened with zest, he lifted his wife to her feet.
The baby still suckling her barren breast, now bleeding and sore at the teat.

Blinking their eyes with the brightness of day, they were herded across the yard.
The husband whispered for his wife to pray, the ground was frozen and hard.

A jackbooted man, a cruel smile on his face, told them they were to be clean,
their bodies, he said were a total disgrace, this had their punishment been.

With the thought of a shower, such immense relief, they immediately quickened their tread,
and entered the bunker in the firm belief, that there was not so much for to dread.

The door was slammed shut with an echoing boom, all adjusted their eyes to the light.
This was no shower but a concrete clad tomb, each one of them shivered in fright.

Looking above he could just see the sky, through a pipe from whence came a draught,
he lifted the baby which gave a weak cry, as he wedged it tight up the shaft.

At the first smell of gas in a last bid for life, screaming they tore at the door,
but our brave little man put his arms round his wife, and together lay down on the floor.

He whispered once more to her of their love, and put his hands on her head.
He could just hear the cries of their baby above, and very soon they were dead.

Just the next day the Nazis moved out, that night the Allies moved in.
No living soul could answer their shout, only a crying so thin.

Twenty years later a Jewish boy stood, surveying the still desolate scene.
His heart was yearning and as heavy as wood, as he prayed where his parents had been.

From rockpoetry.co.uk

From rockpoetry.co.uk

Don’t love her because she smiles a lot, or cuddles close in bed,
don’t love her ‘cos she isn’t hard, she’s soft and warm instead.

I love her ‘cos for however brief she’s made me feel again,
and I love her ‘cos she found my heart and took away the pain.

Yes…I love her because she made me real and now I really know,
I can reassess my life from now, and really start to grow.

From rockpoetry.co.uk

That young man each morning who delivers the post
or the boy in the tea shop who brings you your toast
It’s risky for sure but not all it appears
so don’t have affairs with Au Pairs

Then there’s the lady that you pass in the street
and the girl in the kiosk who looks rather sweet
people get away with it sometimes for years
but one always gets caught by affairs with Au Pairs

Next time that girl enters your office in her high powered suit
if she’s made up and perfumed and thinks she looks cute
don’t give in to temptation or it will all end in tears
if you decide to have affairs with Au Pairs

If the Au Pair comes into your room in her neglige
and by pure chance your wife is away for the day
take a deep breath and turn her away
tell her you never have affairs with Au Pairs.

From rockpoetry.co.uk

Interior

• All electrics work
• Upholstery/leather
• Seats springy, comfortable
• Smell
• Controls, dashboard
• Pedal rubber
• Boot (rust, spare wheel)
• Evidence of water entry

Exterior

• Tyres
• Bodywork (dents, scratches, repaint, rust)
• Level – no sag
• Glass
• Wheel rims
• Lights
• Security
• Leaks – check seals around doors and boot
• Forced entry
• Petrol cap forced and replaced
• Suspension – push down bonnet and car should bounce no more than twice
• Check ground under car for evidence of leaked fluid

Bonnet

• Battery newish
• Rust, damage, dents
• Water entry
• Wiring, fluids, belts, hoses, radiator
• Check beneath stickers

Documentation

• Vehicle registration document (V5c)
  - DVLA watermark visible within layers of paper
  - Check number plate
  - Check engine number
  - Check VIN (17 characters, bodywork below bonnet, engine compartment, floor panel on driver’s side). Q means age unknown, may be imported or rebuilt from parts. Uneven or evidence of alteration?

• Service history
• MOT certificate
• Duration of last few periods of ownership
• Warranty
  - duration
  - what does it cover

• What checks has dealer done?
  - HPI (car data check – accident?) or AA?

Test drive

• Start car from cold. Should start immediately.
• Exhaust – accelerate hard
  - Should not be excessive noise.
  - Should be moderate white clear steam. It should not be oily.
• Temperature gauge should settle at midway.
• Steering wheel should turn smoothly from full lock to full lock without banging or knocking.
• Try to drive with the handbrake on.
• Clutch should bite between middle and top of travel.
• Reverse quickly and stop accelerating and it shouldn’t fall out of gear.
• Use all gears.
• Drive on every surface.
• Brake sharply.
• Turn tightly.

Don’t pay cash.