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2009 OECD Child Well Being Report

Some Figures from the 2009 OECD Child Well Being Report

Quality of school life

1 Iceland
2 Norway
3 Netherlands
4 United Kingdom
5 Sweden
6 Spain
7 Hungary
8 Denmark
9 Germany
10 Ireland
11 Austria
12 Turkey
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How to Backup your Computer in Windows XP

What would happen if you lost all the data on your computer, would it create problems for you ?

This is the procedure in Windows XP to do a basic backup.

I have just run the above procedure on my … Read the rest

Recipe: Apple Pie

The Apple Mix Ingredients:

Half a cup of Sugar
1 Tablespoon Plain Flour
Half a teaspoon of Cinnamon
3 pinches of Salt
3 medium sized Cooking Apples
4 ‘sugar cube sized’ pieces of unsalted Butter

The Instructions:

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Mandarins Tangerines Satsumas Clementines

In Australia it is unlikely that you will see many Mandarin varieties other than the Imperial, Murcott and Hickson.

The Tangerine, Satsuma and Clementine variety are something that I don’t think I have seen since I left the UK.

We … Read the rest

Avocado Face Mask

Avocado fruit can be very helpful to re-hydrate dry skin.

To make a basic avocado mask… blend the following together:

2 oz of ripe avocado
1 teaspoon of pure honey
1 teaspoon of Molasses
2 drops chamomile essential oil.
Some

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HTML Redirect Code

To redirect a web page to another:

Put the following code between the <HEAD> and </HEAD> tags of the page that you want to redirect from.

The content=”0; part allows for the page to show … Read the rest

WordPress Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted

This post is mainly to remind myself of how to fix this problem if it happens again, as it has now occurred on every WordPress site that I have.

The error came up as: Fatal error: Allowed memory size of … Read the rest

Beef Stroganoff in Slow Cooker

Ingredients
1kg Beef steak
500 grams Mushrooms
500 grams Diced Tomatoes
1 large Onion sliced
2 cloves Garlic crushed
1 Beef Oxo cube
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire Sauce
250 ml Water
1 Tablespoon Paprika
Salt
Pepper
200 ml Sour Cream

Directions… Read the rest

The Generations

The Greatest Generation – late 1910’s to the mid-1920’s

The Silent Generation – mid 1920’s to mid 1940’s

The Baby Boomers Generation – Mid 1940’s to early 1960’s

Generation X from the early-to-mid 1960’s to late 1970’s.

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Perfect Cure For Heartburn

… Stop eating…

Well, not exactly, but I did work out that if I stop eating certain foods, that my heartburn went away.

Heartburn is a symptom of the gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, in which stomach acids surge upwards from the … Read the rest