Homes & Holidays: Travel – Mum’s the world

Homes & Holidays: Travel – Mum’s the world

Sunday Mirror, Mar 7, 2004

BALLOONING IN LANCASHIRE

THE sky’s the limit this Mother’s Day when you take her up, up and away over the Lancashire countryside transported by hot air balloon. Lakeland Balloons in association with Best Western Barton Grange Hotel, Preston, will take you to the flight location and after the hour-long journey you’ll come down to earth where a bottle of bubbly awaits.

A night’s B&B at the Barton Grange Hotel which has an indoor pool and award-winning restaurant costs from pounds 42pp (two sharing) including breakfast. The Hot Air Ballooning Experience costs pounds 165 per person.

Details: 08456 340 557 or go to www.bestwestern.co.uk

ENJOY quality time with your Mum at the School House Cottage in North Stanford near Ashford, Kent. It’s part of a beautifully- converted old village school, so she’ll look out over rolling fields and hills. A three-night break from March 19 in the cottage, which sleeps up to six, costs pounds 192.

Pamper her further by booking her a Total Luxury Spa Day package at Utopia Health Spa near Hextable (01883 724 843, www.healthfarms- uk.co.uk). Head-to-toe treatments from vitality facial, back, neck and shoulder massage down to foot spa and leg massage are included for pounds 169 per person, as well as a two-course lunch in The Brasserie.

Details: Rent the School House Cottage by calling 08700 781 200 or go to www.country- holidays.co.uk

DRAMA IN STRATFORD

APPEAL to your Mum’s sense of the dramatic and take her to Shakespeare country to see Macbeth at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre on March 20.

Although officially sold out for this performance, RSC Short Breaks can still provide A-class tickets in a two-night break staying at the four-star Alveston Manor Hotel. Just a five-minute stroll from the theatre, this 16th Century country house is set in six acres of mature gardens. Two nights’ B&B plus one dinner and theatre tickets costs from pounds 158.50pp.

Details: 020 8758 4799 or visit www.rsc shortbreaks.com

CRUISE THE THAMES

TAKE Mum for a cruise down Old Father Thames on a three-night trip aboard the four-star Crown Classique with Blakes Boating Holidays, starting at Benson Waterfront Riverside Park near Windsor.

Be sure to moor up at Bray to enjoy the gastronomic delights at three Michelin-starredWEST END MUSICAL

restaurant The Fat Duck (01628 580 333). The Menu Du Jour costs pounds 32.50. Three nights’ hire of the Crown Classique which sleeps up to eight costs pounds 1,368 starting March 19.

Details: 0870 2202 498 (ref BTB27) or go to www.blakes.co.uk

MAKE a song and dance on Mother’s Day by taking her out on the town to a top West End show – from the roaring Twenties of Thoroughly Modern Millie at the Shaftesbury Theatre or the head-banging We Will Rock You at the Dominion.

Two-night packages with Virgin.com start from pounds 101 per person and include one night’s B&B at the four-star Marriott Maida Vale with tickets to Thoroughly Modern Millie or B&B stay at four- star K West Hotel in Kensington with seats for We Will Rock You.

Details: 0870 066 5522 or go to www.virgin. com/travelstore

MAKEOVER IN LEEDS

MAKE your Mum feel like a new woman by treating her to a Mother’s Day Makeover Weekend at 42 The Calls in Leeds – a hip designer hotel converted from a riverside corn mill. A Clarins Makeover Master Class for one person, one night’s accommodation for two sharing and a smoked salmon and champagne breakfast are included in the package which costs pounds 199.

Details: 0113 244 0099.

BREAK IN NORFOLK

HEAD to the seaside with your mother for lovely long beach walks on the Norfolk coast. Lavender Cottage in the tranquil village of Cley is an ideal base. Stock up on fine local produce at Picnic Fayre in Cley – Norfolk’s Deli of the Year. There are also plenty of good pubs and restaurants to choose from. A week at the two-bedroom property, taking in Mother’s Day, costs pounds 234 through Norfolk Cottages.

Details: 01603 871 872 or go to www.norfolkcottages.co.uk

RIDE THE ORIENT EXPRESS

STOP your mum in her tracks and surprise her with a Mother’s Day lunch to remember as you roll through either Kent and Sussex or Cheshire aboard the Orient Express.

The four-hour round trip on the British Pullman from London Victoria leaves at 11.45am. The Northern Belle leaves Liverpool at noon, and from Manchester at 1pm. Uniformed stewards will serve up a five-course lunch with champagne and present a small gift to your mother
lancashire balloon flights

There is no cut and dry

There is no cut and dry way of finding out how each one prices their cars. The best thing you can do is know the facts before you start negotiating. This will put you in a position of power.

Get the best deal on cars. Do your homework. Don’t forget to check out our
Ford Explorer Amarillo, Chevrolet San Angelo TX,
Low Cost Oil Change Stickers We have the best car buying tips..
auto repair

The customer need

The customer need not trash existing valuable infrastructure and re-invest. The customer does not need to change telephone numbers or current service provider. The customer does not need to retrain its users. Emergency service and geographic information services are not compromised, and if for any reason the IP network fails, the voice traffic reverts automatically to the TDM system using VegaStream?s unique pass through features.

As the customer becomes more comfortable with VoIP, there are opportunities to sell connectivity to one of the new breed of Internet telephony services and to open up the potential for sales of hosted applications and other managed services.

The greatest challenge to the reseller channel is finding new ways to up sell into its existing customers, and equally importantly, to secure new customers. The VegaStream gateway proposition is easily communicated and readily understood. The successful reseller can even avoid talking about VoIP altogether, and offer the customer simply the ability to save money for a modest capital outlay and zero disruption to existing operations.
pc anywhere

Record retail warehouse rent at Four Pools; COMM PROP

Record retail warehouse rent at Four Pools; COMM PROP

0 Comments | Birmingham Post (England), The, Jan 22, 2009

Henderson Global Investors’ CASPAR fund has achieved a record retail warehouse rent at its Four Pools Retail Park in Evesham with a 6,000 sq ft (557 sq m) pre-let to Pets at Home for a new unit. The deal was brokered by CASPAR’s agents ESH&P.

Planning consent has already been obtained for the new unit which is now under construction and due to be completed by April 2009. Pets at Home has taken the space on a new 15-year lease at a rent of pounds 17.50/sq ft.

Also at Four Pools, Homebase, which last year took a 40,009 sq ft (3,719 sq m) store on assignment from DIY retailer Focus, has entered into a lease extension direct with Henderson. The Homebase lease has now been extended by 15 years with a new expiry date of 2029 and as of June 2009, the home improvement retailer will pay a rent of pounds 14.80/sq ft.

Pets at Home was advised by Wright Silverwood and Homebase was unrepresented.

letting agents evesham

Like many, many people, you

Like many, many people, you might find that your getting fired or laid off was the best thing to happen to your career!

# # #

Kathryn Marion is President of Education for Reality?. in Erie, Colorado. Her book Success in the ‘Real World:’ The Graduate’s Complete Guide to Making the Most of Your Career (and Your Life!) was released in April ’05 in e-book format for its tenth anniversary–it was distributed through schools, colleges, and universities to nearly two million new graduates. Jam-packed with savvy insights and helpful advicem it covers everything from careers to money management to handling personal and even legal matters. Visit http://www.EducationForReality.com and sign up for the free monthly newsletter, Dose of RealityTM–it will give you a ‘dose’ of advice on your career, your money, and your life each month as well as point you to additional online resources which will help you in these areas–so you don’t have to surf the Net (we do it for you!)..
healthcare quality assurance jobs

You say the real

You say the real answer is that some people are truly born to lead.

And I would reply that your common statement implies that others aren?t born to be leaders.

So let?s examine that difference of opinion…

When people describe someone as a ?born leader? they typically mean that the person is motivating, a good communicator and charismatic. And it is true; some people are blessed at birth with more natural ability in these ways.

But leaders can be great with different innate characteristics as well.

And there is no single small skill set that defines the perfect leader or guarantees success.

Everyone is born with a unique set of natural abilities. And all of us can develop skills and styles to complement those natural abilities.

Who is a Leader?

This question on the surface is the easiest question I?ve asked so far. After all, I?ve already given some examples.

People in certain roles are leaders, whether they?ve studied for the role, like a doctor, lawyer, teacher or minister? got elected to the role, like a county councilman, mayor, Senator or President… or worked up the through the organization like a supervisor, manager, Vice President or CEO.

You can ask most anyone the question ?Who is a leader?? and those are the kinds of answers they will give you.

They are right, of course.
sexual harassment training

The flu has been an irritant for

The flu has been an irritant for some time. However, at one time it actually caused worldwide devastation, killing millions of people. Although this type of effect has not been felt from the flu for many years, with the onset of bird flu this is becoming a very real possibility. With this being a concern, people should arm themselves to the full extent to avoid this from occurring.

There are several common-sense precautionary measures that can be taken to protect yourself and your family against being infected by this potentially deadly virus.

The first is to avoid places where the bird flu virus already runs rampant. As of now, the bird flu outbreak is primarily in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Although it is expected to spread worldwide, you should not save it the trouble by traveling where you can become infected more easily. If you must travel to these areas, avoid poultry farms or other high risk areas. On the same note, try to avoid contact with sick people.
msm plus

Years ago there wasn’t such an

Years ago there wasn’t such an interest in preserving memories for future generations and so many of the memories of my childhood, and I’m sure many others, are lost and forgotten in time.

Today I have two small children and since their birth I have kept almost everything from their birth cards to tickets to places we visited together. I have a box for each of them and every time we visit a museum, go on vacation or receive a report card from school I put the evidence in their box. Their boxes are full of tickets, cards, certificates, badges and even the letters we wrote together to Santa. One day I will give them these boxes and as we look through them together, these items will help me remember what I did with them as children.

It?s important not to forget because their early years are a vital part of who they are today. It has been said that between the ages of 2 to 6 is when most of your child?s intelligence and social characteristics are formed. If this is correct then these trinkets of their childhood are priceless as they go a long way to explaining who they are as a person.

For me, the benefits of keeping such souvenirs are really two-fold:

1) It helps me to remember more clearly our family memories in terms of time and place.
die cuts

Winstead's Attorneys Rank High in Chambers USA: 21 Attorneys and

Winstead’s Attorneys Rank High in Chambers USA: 21 Attorneys and

0 Comments | U.S. Newswire, Jun 18, 2010

DALLAS, June 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Winstead’s reputation for providing quality legal services to clients in banking, real estate, financial, environmental, construction, tax and insurance has once again been recognized nationally in Chambers USA. This year’s annual publication ranked Winstead’s Real Estate practice in band 1 for national law firms, and Winstead’s Banking and Finance, Construction, Environment, Insurance, and Intellectual Property (IP) practice groups were ranked in the top three bands.

Chambers USA is published by Chambers and Partners, a premier guide to the legal profession. Each year, Chambers conducts in- depth research and interviews with clients and attorneys throughout the United States to identify the top lawyers in various practice areas. Law firms and individual lawyers are ranked in bands from 1- 6, with 1 being the best
construction law practice

So if you want to look into

So if you want to look into rare coins, remember that you have some heavy competition.

One of the best places to find rare coins is, of course, in your pockets. No, you are not going to find any coins that are worth thousands. But you can find an occasional needle in the haystack that will be worth much more than you might expect. This is because there are a lot of coins in circulation and some rare coins just float along and get lost in the shuffle because nobody bothered to see what was in their hands. However, as a coin collector, you should take a look at the change that passes into your hands so that you can be sure to catch the occasionally unusual coin that comes your way.
absinthe essence