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Sharing made easy

Everyone’s into sharing via social media sites. It’s pretty rare to see a site without a Facebook button these days. I found a couple of ace WordPress plugins that help with the task of getting your content read. If you’re looking to start a blog then check us out, we include a whole heap of useful plugins as standard.

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Watch out for falling bits of code and error messages cos I’m still updating. In case you didn’t know already all of my plugins and code endeavors are now on my company site Crafty Coding. This site is my personal blog. If you’re looking for support for my plugins check out the brand-spanking-new Support Centre and I’ll do my best to get you up and running again.

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Frugality

I’ve been checking out a good few websites about frugal living recently since it’s been quite difficult to keep cash under control when it’s only two weeks until the wedding. I found some really interesting sites that I’ll be keeping on my Google Reader.

The first frugal blog I found and bookmarked was Budgeting with the Bushmans which had an interesting recipe for homemade toothpaste. I don’t know whether I’d be able to go that far with frugality, but the blog claims that their teeth felt cleaner than they ever had before which either means that a) the toothpaste really is good or b) over time it’ll make your teeth transparent.. mind you I believe all toothpaste is exactly the same anyway but at a euro a tube (if you buy the really really cheap stuff) I’d rather buy it than make it.

The Finer Things in Life attempts to make us see that there are good things happening around us all the time if only we’d stop and look. It re-inforces the ideas behind a book I’m reading “Your Money or Your Life” which has lots of interesting ideas about how to get your money under control and how to know when enough is really enough.

I also found a recipe for homemade ginger ale here and a thing called a knitting loom
which looks like it makes some really nice stuff and might be quicker than regular knitting which means I might actually get something finished :O The article about that is here.

I’d love to be able to put some of these articles to good use, now if only I had some time to do any of it. Once thing I did enjoy though was the styles they use on their blogs. Just because they’re frugal doesn’t mean they don’t have style. If you’re looking to start a blog then have a look at Crafty Coding. Even frugal people can afford it hah. *END OF SHAMELESS ADVERTISING*

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Pee pee and a bit more pee.

Well we’ve had an addition to the family, a male Norwegian Elk Hound. He’s 3 and a half and outwardly appears calm and collected. I’m suspecting it’s not really the case though as he’s having real trouble with marking and peeing inside the house. He actually seems to be holding in his pee until he’s unable to hold it in anymore and goes inside even though he’s just been outside.

He’s suffering from separation anxiety as well and barks for ages when we leave. The poor wee bugger was kept outside pretty much his whole life in a pen in the back yard. It’s difficult to know whether he has a urine infection.. is just having some trouble settling down.. has never been house trained or all of the above, so for now I’m keeping him on a flexilead beside me so I can monitor him at all times. It only takes a second for him to pee on the couch. Constant vigilance! As my old professor would say hah.

Anyhoo am now trawling through episodes of the dog whisperer online to see if there’s an episode that seems to fit the profile of our poor wee dog. Hopefully I can find something that will help him and in turn will help us. It’s the most frustrating thing in the world trying to teach a dog not to pee inside when he’s been doing it for three and a half years without anyone teaching him not to. Am sure he’ll get it though… just got to find the right method.

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