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Anyone who follows home improvement and property developments will know of the dynamic duo of Kirsty Allsop and Phil Spencer. They are famous for their Channel 4 programme of Love it or List it. To apply, you must be a home owner and have enough finance in place to fund the renovations of your property and any costs involved in selling your house, should you choose to list it. In exchange, Kirstie and Phil will provide you with all their expertise in the world of renovation and property searching. We may not be on the programme but my wife wants to "List it" and is property searching at the moment. On the other hand, I want to "Love it" and do an open plan renovation, live here for another 15 years and have a more sellable house. On the one hand the rationale for us "Listing" is that: 1) We had seen a new build in mind but the site had access issues 2) Our site has a sloping back garden and will require massive soil extraction were we

Comedy Review - March 2019 Date #3 of 12 for 2019 was Friday 22nd March. We had hoped for a night of craic from an Irish comedian called Tommy Tiernan. However, we found that it was so poor, my wife and I walked out at the interval! The comedian was like someone suffering from tourettes. His comedic genius was tainted, due primarily to a barrage of swearing tics and base anecdotal stories. He is a 'crude, lewd, dude', reflecting Irishness at it's worst. In his Papillon style hat, he stood and subjected us, to put it mildly, to what can only be described as "verbal diaharrea." Others more vociferous decided to harangue the comedian from the audience. TT retaliated, slating the upset individual in a most ungracious and self-serving way. Family values went out the window. Instead, relationships with the opposite sex were debased and demeaned to a level of debauchery and objectivity. Women were viewed as something "to ride". The filth and verbal lewdn

Here are 10 important facts around Saint Patrick's Day. 1.Q. Definition of an American? A. An Irishman that can swim! According to the US Census, 32.6 million US residents claimed Irish ancestry in 2017. This is more than six times the population of Ireland (5.1 million). 2. The north fountain of the Whitehouse has been dyed green on St Patrick's Day since 2009. 3. The Chicago River was first dyed green in 1962 , to the delight of the many Irish Chicagoans.  About 40 pounds of an environmentally friendly orange powder are dumped into the river which turns the water bright green.  The recipe is only known to a few leprechaun's. 4. Most people think that St Patrick was Irish, but historians now believe he was actually born in south Wales at Banwen, which makes the patron saint of Ireland a Welshman! St Patrick was born Maewyn Succat around 386 AD. According to the Confession of Saint Patrick, at the age of sixteen he was captured by a group of Iris

Some 600 million people worldwide are forecast to be signed up to "voice recognition" (VR) by 2020. The business benefit is that customers can be authenticated quickly, enabling organisations to deal with a greater number of calls and reduce fraud through identity theft.  Although I'm from the pre-computers/baby boomer generation, I'm not completely a technological dinosaur! After a few technical teething issues were ironed out, I have recently become a convert to "voice recognition (VR)" security.  Why have VR? Companies say it makes accessing your account fast and easy – plus it reduces fraud.   When was VR introduced? It seems that Barclays Bank became one of the first major corporations to adopt voice recognition technology for its telephone banking customers (instead of standard pin codes) in August of 2016. What is VR and how does it work?  Also known as “voice biometrics,” it confirms your identity by analysing your voic