50 webs. – I was with these people for quite a while before starting on wordpress. They do rather good free hosting and are highly recommended. Like all things free there’s a catch – on this one you have to update your site every 30 days which can be a bind if you’re working. But I only changed because I feared being able to do that and losing my site (and the .co.uk name was free with my new isp). Perfect for people wanting a tad more than a blog or a photo album but skint!
Atari Games – Since those clever people (not) at Games.com decided to be taken over by AOL (evil ppl) this is about the best place for free monopoly et al on the web! Keep free monopoly alive. Use atari games!
B. McCall Barbour – Should have added this link yonks ago but forgot. Every blessing
Bruce’s Typing Tutor – I just love this typing tutor. Gone are the days of mindnumbing boredom. It’s like one of those semi educational games that even the mathematically challenged (i.e me) can enjoy and benefit from. Best of all (like most things on this page) it’s free!
Nigel Brotherton – Basically this is the guy who did our wonderful family photos the other month. He did them in Ma’s back garden as as you can see was great. As already mentioned he was very profesionnal yet also put us at our ease. Highly remommended! 5 Stars*****
Better Homes and Garden’s cookbooks (UK link) – Stuff Delia or even Good Housekeeping. I started off with a paper back version from the early 90’s. It is the best! Has everything from calories to food hygiene. Whilst I jibber the debate on Jamie Oliver continues in my wee ears. All I can say on him is love the chap, but when is his healthy eating going to percolate itself into Sainsbury’s restaurants?
Calvin’s Commentaries – call me weird but I just love ‘em. Now I have found a free site for them online. All your bible queries can be found simply by going to the Library….praise God for his mercies aye endureth
Craft Site Directory – wonderful site for free craft projects and patterns. This site should have been up ten years ago before Google was even conceived – but alas wasn’t. Still fab site – highly recommended
Craftster.org – Just gotten into this site following dabbling with needle felting. Highly recommended. Not least for felting tips that you can’t find anywhere else (but then google has prolly already told you that!)
Beginner Crochet Instructions – only one discrepancy I have with these ones (others can be found via craft site directory but these currently are some of the best). They state beginner should start with a 2.5mm hook. Even now after 5+ years of crocheting I rarely use a 2.5mm (let alone anything thinner) because I find them too tiny and progress to small. The whole attraction of crochet to me is that it’s less fiddly than knitting and in the main you never have to worry about poking anyone’s eyes out with your tools. To me, crochet is glorified fidgeting, and yet for something that is basically fidgeting you can produce such a wide variety of articles that you could never achieve with just a TV remote! Another amazing fact on this link page…..(see below for mair)
Digiguide – This wee program has saved me a fortune already on TV guides (and I’ve only had it a few months). Has everything (UK) from stand a lone terrestrial and radio to the plethora of satellite. Can be easily adapted to suit your requirements. Highly recommended!!!
Hotel Chocolat/Chocolate Tasting Club (you all know I want this stuff on prescription. Likewise you all know I can’t get it!)
Free Church of Scotland (continuing)
Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland
GNER – simply the best company on National Rail! For those backpackers who want to do something wonderful not in the guide books I recommend buying a cheap ticket from London to Edinburgh (or anywhere else up north. Newcastle is too far south) and spending the saved money on their fabulous cuisine in their restaurant (not buffet, though that’s also better than it’s rivals. Their restaurant is simply is the way to eat). Total cost of this one way should cost less than £40 (which ironically is about the same price as a budget flight for the same distance inc tax but more direct). If Egon Ronay had any sense it would shove them in his guide. Alas I can only shrug. My mother is always stating how unposh she is and how skint she is and even she likes it! I rest my case! Current prices (you need to book about 3 months in advance to get them.) is Aberdeen – London (one way), Standard from £14.50/First from £34.70. Now considering that for a bog standard 1st class ticket (known as first open single I think) you normally pay £161 it should be obvious you are getting (a) a bargain and (b) you shouldn’t not do it! In first class you get free coffee/tea etc brought to you on china (if I recall correctly). No other rail company in the UK uses china in first class. You still get the beverages but on plastic. Likewise anything you order from the buffet is brought to your seat and again on china instead of plastic wrap. Backpackers should raid the complimentary nibbles served periodically. At one time I had a thing about their cinnamon shortbread and by the time I got to Ma’s I’d have about 10 wee packets of them, politely scrounged from the crew.
Free mobile game site (java) – most of these sites my Samsung E720 is allergic to at present (having not figured out the programming yet – no surprise there). Okay so the games are retro, but at least they work! Another site listed on here primarily for fossils but also for the mathmatically challenged (if the caps fits, wear it. Only I’m giving you a choice of caps because I’m in a good mood)
National Phobics Society – not just for people with phobias but has information and support on a variety of anxiety conditions. UK based. Also has online message board and a link to people doing online research in Mental Health in the UK. Considering the high number of people anxiety conditions affect and also when one considers that some people can be so overwhelmed by them, they are housebound, I am sickened by the lack of funding for this organisation. Anxiety disorders are classified as mild mental health condition which I fail to comprehend because they can be just as detrimental to one’s functioning as major psychosis. Please help these people in whatever way you can. No donation is too small!
Statcounter – whilst one can argue and debate the variety of website counters, this is the one I’m currently using.
Sir Toby’s – if you want a backpackers hostel in Prague that is quiet, yet also has access to a bar (in the basement). Something your granny would feel at home in, yet equally something that allows you to experience alcohol without being evicted, this it it. I have never been in a hostel before that has actually bought me cake whilst I’ve been in hospital! Sir Toby’s did. It’s tasteful decor, well sized dorms, high quantity of lockers….I could go on and on. Maybe a tad more expensive than a lot of other places but well worth it. In short a hotel minus hotel prices?
Springfields – gardens and also discouted shopping outlet. The only gripe I have with this place is the evils that are Costa. I would prefer that of a local, Spalding or South Lincolnshire based (Maybe even Curtis’?) cafe, but that aside this is a really nice relaxed place to visit in Spalding, South Lincolnshire in the heart of the North Fens. I didn’t get chance to visit the gardens though I believe they would be well worth it. But the shopping outlet was lovely and also you can get boat trips to admire the wonderful sky scapes (that befits a landscape of green desert, effectively) and that is truly beauty in the highest sense of rural England (well….maybe I’m biased….but still). In the words of one great academic – Any fool can appreciate mountains but it takes a man of discernment to appreciate the Fens!
Sovereign Grace Singles – Can two walk together except they be agreed. Best Calvinist singles site known to woman. Just putting this here to save me putting anymore banners on me blog. Highly recommended. 5 stars *****
Swansea TV advert – Praise God. Tango have gotten it right this time. It’s so funny! Guess it gives the welsh gripers something to do, cleaning up all that pulp and so long as it wasn’t done on the Sabbath I’m nae against it. The advert was good. Better than most other tango ones of recent times. Maybe I should start a petition in favour of it? I mean, wading round in fruit pulp sounds like fun to me. Bet the kids really enjoyed themselves. Tango folk – nice one!
Tarts and Crafts - at Balmedie (No. 250 bus from Aberdeen – see timetable – get off at Eigie Road and it’s just after the libary as you go back on yourself, up a bit of a track on what appears to be waste ground). Well worth a visit!
Telephone Helplines Association (key to surviving in a crisis with mental health difficulties in the UK – if you can afford their book buy it – otherwise wait for your local library to sell last years one off cheap!)
Thrifty Fun – well you need something to do with all those things that you’ve freecycled. Great site. Highly recommended
Trinitarian Bible Society
see also their online sales at www.tbs-sales.org
Ubuntu – this is wonderful if you can do languages (i.e. Gives away free linux CD’s) but even for brain dead luddites like myself who would rather make transform the decaying but sprouting carrots in our kitchens into phenomena worthy of Nobel Prizes, it’s pretty cool. Not only because you can get the latest open office free off their cd (this works on Windows for the pc challenged) and Firefox (smiley addicts MUST have firefox) but also has a pretty neat Mahjong solitaire thing on their live cd (the one that doens’t make your windows inaccessible if you don’t know what you’re doing). I know some ppl would rightly argue Mahjong comes with all linux os’s which is fair point but I don’t think everyone knows that you don’t have to pay for this wee time killer. You just go to Ubuntu and order ya CD’s 
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