Martin McDowell's Blog

Ever since I moved to Wales 2 years ago I had a quiet wish to climb the highest peak in this country – Snowdon. Last weekend was showing to be a perfect opportunity to fulfil that wish. I was working only till 12 pm and the forecast was for sunshine and high temperatures stretching way [...]

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Ooops no more. I have received my container back this morning via FedEx. The tracking itself proves why it sometimes makes sense to switch your courier service. As I mentioned in my previous post here and here, I chose DHL to send my container to the U.S. It has a good network here in the [...]

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I have put it off for a long time but a sightee-er to Tenby was well due. The town of Tenby lies on the south Pembrokeshire coast and if leaving from Haverfordwest can take the road across the Cledau bridge or you can, by saving the 75p bridge toll and, depriving the Pembrokeshire County Council [...]

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Well, its more of an orthopedic course but this makes a better title Thi splace should be about 3 hours from Haverfordwest but ended up over 4 as there was a car accident in somewelshnamedplacewithlotsoflettersandhardlyanyvowels. This was on the A40 ut before and after the accident this was one of the most enjoyable roads to [...]

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Last weekend I did what I wanted to do for a long while – to actually skydive in the UK. I’ve been putting it off for a long time, lately mostly due to the weather we have been having. Last weekend the weather was OK, no flu lingering in the background and no lameness in [...]

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Razmere v hiši, kjer živim trenutno, so bile malo preveč »zanimive« in še ponavljajoči se kiksi lastnika (landlorda) so mi šli že pošteno na živce. V lokalnem časopisu sem že nekaj tednov iskal morebitno novo lokacijo in si jih tudi nekaj ogledal. Na koncu pa mi je bilo še najbolj všeč stanovanje v čisto novi [...]

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Tale prispevek je čisto zares in žal pokaže tudi razliko med veterino v Sloveniji in Veliki Britaniji. Klinika, v kateri delam, že nekaj časa išče nadomestilo za veterinarko, ki bo šla v kratkem na porodniški dopust. Objavljali smo oglase v veterinarskih oglasnikih, kot je npr. “Veterinary record” in imeli celo neko dekle na razgovoru a [...]

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