Martin McDowell's Blog

The story begins in the second half of the 19th century, 1862, to be more exact when all of a sudden people saw many shooting stars visually originating from the constellation Gemini, from which it got its name – the Geminids. They were never recorded before that date but ever since have been a regular [...]

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The story repeats itself every year. If you are savvy enough to start thinking which cards you intend to buy and for whom, the whole nonsense can begin as early as November. You can’t really stop thinking about it or even forget the whole thing as the absence of cards from you will eventually be [...]

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Če ste diplomirani veterinar in bi želeli delati v Veliki Britaniji, seveda, kot veterinar, je tu nekaj napotkov iz moje lastne izkušnje, ko sem se registriral v RCVS.

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This was the third Slovene annual Skydiving Film Festival and it also coincided with the first freefall Skydive Photo Festival. It took place yesterday, December 8th 2006 at the KMŠ (Klub Mariborskih Študentov). I had the pleasure attending last year’s festival and this year it proved to be even better. The ambient was great and [...]

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This post will be dedicated to the description of the procedure I had to go through to get my Slovene veterinary qualifications recognized in the United Kingdom. I must stress that this is the procedure that was applicable to me and may vary for other individuals that have different circumstances. I first tried to get [...]

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These two days were mainly spent doing other stuff, but one of the things, that ended to be taking up quite a bit of my time was the search for the sodden curry powder. You know when you go abroad and you sometimes get a list of things to buy. I had Sharwoods mild curry [...]

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