It has came to my attention that itsjims.com was not covered legaly if anyone were to spit their dummy about anything that I have written. Because my blog is not hosted on a dedicated blogging host I am not covered by their Terms and conditions when it came to the content of my blog.
It has taken a bit of time but I have a a disclaimer in place now. As per the terms of the disclaimer I need to let you lot know its in place. You can read itsjims.com Terms and Conditions “here“. Enjoy…
Over the past couple of days I have been working on the forum thats connected to my blog. I finally got it up and running yesterday, its still got a few bits I want to add to it but not yet, I dont want too many empty forum categories on show. I woke this morning after a weird dream that the forum had got about 200 registrations over night and had abut 500+ posts and threads all on the go. Yeh I know, I wish.
As it happened I did have two new members, one I figure is a bot or something like that, the other has a gmail address so unless its a clever bot I dont know, Guess I will wait untill they make a post if they ever do.
Anyway today has been kind of busy, my wife had to go to a meeting this afternoon so I took the kids to their Saturday Dyspraxia group. Everything went well with no melt downs from the kids or me. The boys just went off and did their own thing like they do every week, Iwent into the gym bit and shot some hoops with my 8 month old daughter, I won of course as I had the advantage that she cant stand up yet and her jump shots suck between you and me. No she was in my arms as I bounced the ball, giggling away.
We all got home at about 3:30 this afternoon with my wife getting home soon after, after a coffee and a cup of tea for my wife we updated each other on what had happened during our afternoons, later I checked the forum and my blog stats, this is where I cant think of what to write next, when I checked my stats for today I noticed that someone or some people had googled my eldest daughters name three times. For those of you who can remember that far back about two years or go I was looking for my daughter and found her, or rather she found me as you can see from the post “How hard can it be” and its comments.We met and for some reason she did not contact me soon after, No idea why, she just stopped answering my text messages and calls..
I guess thats why seeing her name in my pages viewed three times kind of shook me up. I still send her texts and letters, maybe she has moved or changed her number, I dont know. Knowing what I did that was wrong wouldbe a good start..
Some of you might have noticed that my blog was off line for a few hours earlier tonight, the good news it was intended this time. Its coming up to my blogs 4th birthday at the beginning of next month. To celebrate this I decided to have a clear out. You would be surprised how much junk you can collect in four years of posting.
Anyway as a birthday present I took Itsjims off line and gave it a bloody good clear out. I moved my blog to a new shiny folder on my server so that it was all safe and out the way and then I deleted everything else on the server (including the forum.. Oops) then once that was all done I got rid of the masses of plugins that I have installed and no longer had a use for. Putting itsjims back where it was supposed to be I left it off line and deleted yet more categories and then moved on to my tags. Geez people tags are like rabbits if left unchecked. After about half an hour I had managed to cull 19 pages of tags down to four pages and even then Im sure there are still some tags that I dont need. Next I moved on to the posts that I have made, this took hours to troll through the posts that I made in the heat of the moment and looking back find them cringe worthy and as such they too were deleted.
After all this I put my blog back on line only to notice that I had to re colour my side bars again as some of you noticed Jody. Now that everything is all nice and clean and junk free again I can look forward to another four years of blogging and some.
Changing the subject swiftly (as I usually do). One thing I noticed when I was putting all the links to other peoples blogs back were they live is the amount of blogs I have in my blog roll or should I say the lack of blogs I have there. Im looking at my blog roll now and thinking to myself in my head that I really need to read more of what other people are saying in their blogs, I dont suppose any of you lot could recommend anyone could you?
If you are resident in the UK no doubt you will have to pay Council tax. If you are the only person over 18 years old living at your address you will be entitled to a Single Person Discount (sometimes called Single Occupier Discount) of 25% of your yearly council tax bill. Why?
Council Tax is worked out like this in regards to Single person discounts.
50% of your council tax is a property tax, you have to pay this unless you fall into a disregarded group (but that is another post).
The other 50% of your bill is assuming there are two people over 18 years old living at your address. If you are the only one you qualify for a discount of 25%.
If you are on Job seekers allowance or Income support you will get Council tax benefit or if you are over 60 years old and qualify for Pension Credits part of these benefits and credits are made up by the discount.
Another misunderstanding is that SPD on your council tax bill means Single Parent discount. It does`nt.
Just like in my last post, please dont ask how or why I know this. I just do.
Have you ever been out or at work and noticed a small hole in your tights? You know how you just know that by the end of the day its going to be a foot long ladder. To stop the hole from laddering put a small dab of clear nail varnish on it.
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