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How To Get Your Bank To Listen To You

I was going to start with a rant about banks and how they suck. However, I'll restrain myself as I'd hate to be childish and reactive after getting off of the phone with my bank.I won't say who they are, apart from they have the same name as a town in Spain, also that they have shown one or two fleeting glimpses of compassion in the 30+ years I have held an account with them.Actually, my issue is with the 'computer says no' mentality of organisations in general.In Seth Godins book 'Small is the
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Just another 30 day blog challenge… #21

It was 1997 or maybe even 1998 and I was wondering around Canary Wharf where I worked, I felt like a teenager and was certainly acting like one. I had just only just got over big relationship number two and little did I know I was heading for big relationship number three and a couple of years later would have my heart ripped out again. I would excitedly meet 'then girlfriend' and gaze into her eyes over coffee at Pret, or wait in the rain by the Docklands train - no Jubilee line in those days
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Just another 30 day blog challenge… #20

So reader, what is going on here? A few of you, well two people have asked "Hey Bernie how is the blog challenge going?" Honestly some days it is a curse, a curse in the way that small children who are alive and full of energy are. You want them to be that way and love them dearly but sometimes you are not in the mood and have to play anyway. On the flip side I have learnt a lot about choice from both #babybernie and my blog. For Years I have 'dreamed of being a blogger' I have dissected every
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Just another 30 day blog challenge… #19

It was 1997 and we were coming home from my birthday party we'd been to the cinema or a pub and it was late, very late to be out with Jenny and Anna. One of the things I liked about being with Jenny and Anna is that it was all moments, no gasping highs and dreadful lows, just moments - little bits of music, food, walks interspersed with mugs of coco and good coffee. We'd been together on our birthdays at 18, 21 and now it was 1997. I was a bit starting to feel really lost but still 'acceptabil
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Just another 30 day blog challenge… #17

This is the opening line and the one that shows on facebook so it better be good! Hell's teeth batman! Ok I could see how you think this is two days in a row I have skipped, but really it is one. Why? I am on the way home after clearing my head into Trello and Mindmister. This means I don't have to come up for air until Monday, well Sunday night. I am on the N25 "down the Ronford Road" we have just passed "Grafters Agency" which is on the right as you head towards sunny Ilford. What a day,
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Just another 30 day blog challenge… #16

I have always been thinking how many dumb things I say to #babybernie and then expect him to NOT  follow my lead. I have this 'thing' about not shouting at him or loosing my temper, it is hard sometimes but really, what is the point? "Never did me any harm...and I got shouted at all the time." Is what people will say, so if it does not make any difference given the choice would you have been happier off being shouted at or not shouted at? Having said that... I did shout a bit when he got to t
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Just another 30 day blog challenge… #15

It was all going so well and then it happened. I woke up and quickly wrote my 750words.com and then headed out for the day. I had therapy and then the dentist with the rest of the family and then went home. Honestly, I just could not face walking across the wind and rain swept Olympic park, or getting the bus. So this is why I missed a day yesterday... #Supercoolwife and I dropped the boy back and nursery and sneaked off to our favourite Polish restaurant for some lunch before getting on wi
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Just another 30 day blog challenge… #14

I am very sure that porn and inspirational quotes are what keep the internet going, we'd hate to admit it but what teenage boys thrive off is also what most of the human race with access to the internet seeks out. Every time I stick a few words over a picture it seems to propel what ever message I am pimping that week, it also annoys the hell out of me that posting a quote on twitter early in the morning is certain way to get a few early morning RT's (Re-tweets) - while we are here can you tell