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		<title>General Rant</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too knackered after property development weekend to care really so not much sorting of crap and throwing out. Did some, but mainly spent all day faffing around! Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be more energetic What is it with the health and safety people? Don&#8217;t they know that if you don&#8217;t take some risks nothing ever gets done? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Too knackered after property development weekend to care really so not much sorting of crap and throwing out. Did some, but mainly spent all day faffing around!<br />
Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be more energetic <img src='http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
What is it with the health and safety people? Don&#8217;t they know that if you don&#8217;t take some risks nothing ever gets done? There&#8217;s no way I am gonna pay £280 to go on a &#8216;ladder awareness&#8217; course. I know what a ladder looks like! I know how to use one and I know if I fall off it it&#8217;s gonna bloody hurt. So, stop taking the piss guys, go get a real job&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Learning to sell!</title>
		<link>http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/2009/04/learning-to-sell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 07:42:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who&#8217;d be a salesman? I&#8217;ve put loads of stuff on Ebay and some of the most unlikely stuff sells while stuff I though would leap off the page doesn&#8217;t even get a sniff! For example, I put on 4 expired tax discs, two sold and two didn&#8217;t, and I still can&#8217;t figure out why Some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who&#8217;d be a salesman? I&#8217;ve put loads of stuff on Ebay and some of the most unlikely stuff sells while stuff I though would leap off the page doesn&#8217;t even get a sniff! For example, I put on 4 expired tax discs, two sold and two didn&#8217;t, and I still can&#8217;t figure out why <img src='http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Some books I though would sell never even got a bid. Or even a watch.</p>
<p>However, I&#8217;ve made some cash so I&#8217;m sticking at it. Everyone here is being careful what they leave lying around in case I get it on Ebay before they get back to it!</p>
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		<title>Change the World &#8211; Shut your wallet!</title>
		<link>http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/2008/12/change-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The recent &#8216;invasion&#8217; of Stansted airport didn&#8217;t change the World nor did 9/11. Oh sure, security got better. Now I can&#8217;t get on a &#8216;plane without surrendering my nail file and submitting to a strip-search in case I have some C4 secreted in my rectum! But the World didn&#8217;t change for the better and it [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The recent &#8216;invasion&#8217; of Stansted airport didn&#8217;t change the World nor did 9/11. Oh sure, security got better. Now I can&#8217;t get on a &#8216;plane without surrendering my nail file and submitting to a strip-search in case I have some C4 secreted in my rectum! But the World didn&#8217;t change for the better and it won&#8217;t change after a suicide bombing or even one a day. So, if you want to change the World what can you do?</p>
<p>Opt out of consumerism. Just look at what&#8217;s happened over the last few months. The World is in complete panic. There&#8217;s no credit to be had and that means many can&#8217;t buy all those things they don&#8217;t need and will never use. However, that&#8217;s a major problem because consumerism drives the World. So, if you want to change things, stop buying. That will certainly get the message across.</p>
<p>Consumerism is simply not sustainable. To maintain growth the cost of consumer goods must fall year on year. That means moving manufacturing to cheaper labour markets hence the growth of China. But China is struggling to compete now so where will manufacture move next? Well, India is a good bet but not for long. When all of Asia is consumed where next? Probably Africa. What happens when we run out of impoverished nations to exploit (move manufacturing to)? Perhaps the Western World will be so poor by then that manufacturing will move back to the US and the UK.</p>
<p>So, it all goes full circle then?</p>
<p>And what have we achieved in the meantime? Nothing. Pandering to consumers results in broken societies. Goods are moved all over the World wasting huge resources but justified on the grounds of cost. But it&#8217;s a cost in financial terms while the cost in real terms is huge and unrecoverable. Cheap is not best, it&#8217;s usually costing the future something we will never be able to pay back and that&#8217;s a major tragedy.</p>
<p>We can all do something about this just by refusing to buy things we don&#8217;t need and shouldn&#8217;t even want. And one thing is certain, voting with your wallet is about the only thing you can do today to change the World for the better. And, you can&#8217;t get arrested for it either! Sadly, most people simply don&#8217;t have the balls to do it.</p>
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		<title>Heard of Mas Nou?</title>
		<link>http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/2007/11/heard-of-mas-nou/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 15:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Holiday Options]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mas Nou is on the Costa Brava, you know, where that painter chap lived (Salvador Dali). Well, we have just got back from a two week break there. Here&#8217;s a couple of views of the accommodation, more views can be found in the gallery of the Travel link on the home page. This is a [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mas Nou is on the Costa Brava, you know, where that painter chap lived (Salvador Dali). Well, we have just got back from a two week break there. Here&#8217;s a couple of views of the accommodation, more views can be found in the gallery of the Travel link on the <a title="Mas Nou photo gallery" href="http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk">home</a> page.</p>
<p><img src="http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/masnou/Lounge.JPG" alt="The comfortable lounge in a premier apartment" width="450" height="300" /></p>
<p><img src="http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/masnou/Balcony.JPG" alt="The corner balcony with great views" width="450" height="300" /></p>
<p>This is a premium apartment with a corner aspect that gets the sun from dawn until mid-afternoon. It&#8217;s 5 minutes walk to the shop, restaurant, bar and swimming pools. Mas Nou is built in the centre of a golf course so you&#8217;re 5 minutes away from the fairway too!</p>
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		<title>Interested in Flims?</title>
		<link>http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/2007/02/interested-in-flims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago we invested in a Swiss holiday company which has property all over the World. It enables us to gain access to apartments in some superb locations provided we are prepared to do some of the organisation ourselves such as arrange flights. The accommodation is excellent as you can see&#8230; This shows the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some time ago we invested in a Swiss holiday company which has property all over the World. It enables us to gain access to apartments in some superb locations provided we are prepared to do some of the organisation ourselves such as arrange flights. The accommodation is excellent as you can see&#8230;</p>
<p><img src="http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/FlimsRoom.jpg" alt="Premium Apartment" height="268" width="453" /></p>
<p>This shows the living area with satellite TV (behind the viewer), a sizeable terrace to the right and spacious kitchen/dining area to the left, there are also two bedrooms and two bathrooms. This apartment sleeps 4 comfortably as both bedrooms are double. There are other sizes available from studio up. We can arrange bookings for interested parties from April 2007. You would need to drive (takes about 3 days) or fly (probably to Zurich) and arrange a hire car. We can make most of the arrangements for you.</p>
<p>Other locations include Chamonix, Majorca, Paris, Crete and many more.</p>
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		<title>Pictures of Flims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:02:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can see more pictures of Flims here]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can see more pictures of Flims <a href="http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/gallery.htm">here</a></p>
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		<title>Off to Vermont</title>
		<link>http://www.the50plusclub.co.uk/2007/02/off-to-vermont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off to Vermont &#8211; I&#8217;ll send a postcard]]></description>
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