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Vol. 2, Issue No. 5
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I have got an absolutely atrocious memory. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not that my brain isincapable of storing information altogether. I currently have a huge archive of 80’s popsong lyrics rattling round in the dark recesses of my brain, which can be recalled at amoment’s notice. The real problems start to occur with short-term instructions.Sometimes my wife will ask me to do something just as I’m heading out the door.Knowing how appalling my memory is I sometimes try to chant on my way to the car,‘Must remember . . . must remember . . .’ Even this often fails and by the time I’m twominutes down the road it’s as if the instruction never existed.On the one hand (if you’ve never asked me to remember something) it’s quite a laugh,a bit of a joke: Lee, the bloke with a sieve for a brain. On the other hand (if you’ve everrelied on me to remember something) it’s not quite so humorous. (Right now all myfriends reading this will be shaking their heads vigorously – no, it’s not funny.)This year I forgot my wedding anniversary. Well, that’s not strictly true, so before youget too carried away gasping in horror, allow me to explain. Lyds and I have got into thehabit of buying one another a small gift and a card. As I stepped out of the shower on themorning of this our seventh anniversary (did somebody say something about an itch?) Isuddenly remembered something I had forgotten – no card, no present, no time to doanything but confess. Fortunately Lyds is a very, very wonderful person (I hope you’rereading this, babe – I continue to grovel apologetically) and she didn’t hold it against me.So if anyone knows of a cure for a bad memory please do write in. My wife would loveto hear from you!All this by way of a tenuous link to the fact that this is an anniversary issue of
LIFE.info.
The magazine is now one year old. Hooray! How are we doing so far? Pleasekeep sending in your feedback. It’s very important to us.Hope there’s something you can enjoy somewhere between here and page 64.
LIFE.info
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Alma ParkGranthamLincolnshireNG31 9SLEmail:
lifeinfomag@aol.com 
Magazine Aims:
To provide relevant material to help you with day-to-day living. To encourage you to stop and thinkabout a few things that perhaps you haven’t given much thought to before. To make you smile.
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LIFE snippets
Trivia and stories about the world we livein and the people we share it with.
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Setting positive goals
Don’t punish yourself! Get motivated and just do what you want to do for you!
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Dinner party panic
Fretting about friends (or worse, thein-laws) coming to tea? – don’t panic.
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Computers –
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Are the beastly machines male or female?
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It’s all in the stuffin’!
No, this isn’t a recipe for your Christmasturkey dinner, it’s a recipe for happyliving, courtesy of A. A. Milne.
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Eating disorders
Help for folk with food problems.
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More exam answers
Another selection of genuine (allegedly)exam answers from GCSE students.
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Bono:an unlikely hero
In the name of love . . . ?
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What’s it like ...to be deaf?
We put the question to Joanne Selby.
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Taming the messy monster
Do you have mucky gremlins wanderinground your home? Here are some tipson dealing with the problem.
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Can you thank your luckystars?
Er . . . probably not.
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If I were God for a day ...
We asked you what you’d do. Youreplied.
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‘Oh my God!’
Did I really say that out loud?
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Loneliness
Combating those solitary blues.
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Death – it’s coming
Not one to read just before you go tobed.
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Shock & Bleeding
Not as gory as it sounds. It is in factmore step-by-step First Aid help.
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Do you love or hateChristmas?
Whether it’s on its way or on its way outwe look at the love/hate relationship weBrits have with the festive season.
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Pester power
Are you besieged by little tykes tugging atyour sleeve saying, ‘Daaaaaaaaaad?’
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Money & kids
You can teach your children the realvalue of money. Who knows, you mightlearn a thing or two yourself.
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Dark glasses
What sort of shades are you hidingbehind?
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Sick behaviour
Ultimately, who will get the sympathyvote, the men or the women?
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Researchers have calculated that Britonsspend 1.3 billion hours a year in queues.And three out of five of those who tookpart in a survey think queuing is a nationalobsession in the UK.Research by Norwich Union Healthcarehas revealed people in the UK spend anaverage of 33 minutes each week waitingtheir turn, although many commuters may besurprised it is not longer.The most stressful wait, highlighted byfour out of ten of those polled, is for thetoilet, while more than a third hated waitingfor a doctor’s appointment.Waiting to board a plane, queuing at thesupermarket and standing in line at the bankwere also high on the most-hated list.A third of Britons admitted to queue- jumping, with one in five saying they wouldpush in if someone else had already doneso before them.The Welsh were the most likely to jumpthe queue, at 40%, followed by stressed-out Londoners at 35%.We are also an inpatient bunch, with athird of Britons not agreeing with the oldadage ‘Good things come to those whowait.’Heather Smith, of Norwich UnionHealthcare, said: ‘As a nation, we do seemto spend a vast amount of time unavoidablywaiting around and this research supportsthe idea that queuing is something of anational pastime in the UK.’
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‘Excuse me,is this the end of the queue?’
German scientists say a woman’s rationalthought disappears when she goes shopping.Researchers at the University of Munsterin Germany said female shoppers simply losethe ability to think straight.They measured the electrical activity in thepart of the brain which deals with commonsense and rational thought in femaleshoppers.They discovered the part of the braingoverning the emotions and pleasant feelingswas in overdrive, says the
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.The scientists also found men experience asimilar loss of control when offered thechance to buy electrical gadgets, fast carsand computer games.Dr Michael Deppe said it might help to
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explain why women shoppers were often at aloss to explain how they found themselveswindow shopping and the next minutespending.He said: ‘The more expensive the product,the crazier the shoppers get. And when buy-ing really expensive products, the part of thebrain dealing with rational thought hasreduced its activity to almost zero.’‘Bargain hunters are driven by emotionalthought, not by common sense. The stimul-ation of the emotional centres shows thatshopping is a stress relief. People do nothave to think, and the brain rewards themwith pleasurable feelings. By shopping, theyare bypassing stress and just going with thepleasurable flow,’ he added.Britain is a nation of gossipmongers,with nearly 90% of us admitting weenjoy a good chinwag with friends andcolleagues.Research commissioned byQuickbrew found 14% of peopleconfessed to spending at least twohours a day gossiping.Work was found to be the favouritetopic of conversation (20%), closelyfollowed by current affairs (18%) andrelationships (17%).Despite the media’s obsession withcelebrities, only 6% of people ques-tioned said they spent most of theirtime gossiping about the rich andfamous.Other people’s lives appear to be agreat source of fascination (17%),while only 3% of us like talking aboutthe weather.Nearly half of us prefer having agossip face-to-face (48%), rather thanon the phone (36%), by email (7%),or via text message (6%). And only1% said they would put pen to paperto share or find out gossip.The ICM poll of 1,004 adultsacross Britain also found an unsurpris-ing gender divide when it comes totalking about relationships. Nearly aquarter of women (24%) said it was apopular topic, compared with just onein ten men.
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Turkish woman gives birth to triplets –for the sixth time.
Fatma Saygi, 28, from the Turkish provinceof Adiyaman and her husband Mehmet arealready parents of five sets of triplets and thesixth set is due in just a matter of weeks.Fatma, who gave birth to her first threechildren at the age of 18, said: ‘We wantedchildren but we didn’t really want that many.But Allah has always given us three at atime.’The family of 17 lives in a two-room flatand on an income of about £12 a week,which Mehmet earns as a wedding singer.
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