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Answering Those Everyday Questions

Feb 19

Where can i find help with my A-level coursework?

by kelvin

Some of in the One Question Tower have been around long enough to have pulled through our studies with no internet.

Yes. There was a time when information on pretty much every subject you care to enquire about was not available at your finger tips.

Back in the dark ages we had to read huge books on our subjects and no one was kind enough to highlight the useful passages.

Research has definitely got a whole lot quicker, but not necessarily easier. There’s now so much out there you have to be careful not to believe every bit of information you read.

Here’s a great source of help and guidance for A-level coursework.

In fact it’ll take you beyond A-levels if you want and through to degree level, helping with essays, study and information.

It’s never easy, it can be fun, and it is definitely worth it.

Work hard. Reap the rewards.

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Feb 13

Where can a man go?

by kelvin

This is a post written from the heart!

Even if I lived alone I think I’d desire a shed.

It’s not just a man thing, but it does tend to be the case that in a couple the house tends to be the woman’s domain, even if the fellow does the cleaning. So it’s just natural that the chap should want a space to call his own.

I think it’s also something to do with enclosure. Feeling that a space is truly yours because the walls are closer perhaps?

The man’s room can be as tidy as the house, or a complete bloody mess, it must have a radio, and ideally a couple of magazine pages stuck to the wall. A sophisticated one might have a fridge, or even a wine cooler, but that’s a bit beyond really, like having a TV would be.

I’m lucky enough to have a great shed, but I also lust after the garden rooms from this place, their garden office buildings look fab and I might just have to include one in my next project. They are far from cheap, but look as good as a modern house so they’re probably worth the price.

I just wonder if they might be too good to qualify as a shed at all?

Gardens Home

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Jan 27

More Charm!

by onequestion

We were delighted by the responses we received to our little charm article, so we thought we’d extend the topic a little further and see where we get.

Thanks also to Chairman Peter who brought us a copy of a fabulous, if somewhat high brow, magazine called Monocle which has an article on charm this month. It seems like they travel the world rather more than us poor folk stuck here in Manchester, but nonetheless just because their examples span the globe, the basic principle matches ours.

Let’s say that it’s something very human that is broken down by every mechanical or computerised stage that comes between one human and another.

And that’s not to say that human to human interaction is necessarily charming. Far from it. It involves a deliberate or conscious consideration of what the other person’s needs or wants may be, and what might simply improve their day.

We will practice charm at One Question Towers in the hope that it will become our natural demeanour putting us in a stronger position for the human interactions we make today, next week, through life.

There’s a spiritual feel to the One Question office today and we like it. It’s banishing the grim cold and hail that’s threatening our chipper mood. Threatening, but it’ll not penetrate.

We all felt the beauty of charm last night at an Indian in town. While most of the staff there did their usual super polite thing, only one had charm. How she managed a degree of sincerity with her smile and well wishes remains a mystery, but its impact was so different to that of her colleagues. East 2 East. Try it if you’re in town.

I feel a charm page is needed to sit alongside this one. Shame I don’t know how to create it!

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Dec 31

What should your New Year Resolution be?

by onequestion

Right, this one’s down to the girls as KC was grumpy and said he didn’t think such rubbish was worth the brian power (how sweet is our boss?), and Sean’s away on his holidays, so we’ll work out his for him.

We think they should be relevant to things you actually want to do in your life – perfect examples could be stopping smoking, stopping drinking, getting pregnant, learning something useful. Trouble is we can’t decide resolutions for other people without having some long therapy like sessions with them, and even then we’d only be helping draw out what that person might be already thinking.

So here’s ours:

Bobby: I want to go to more live music. I love bands live, even ones I don’t care for on recordings, and I’ve dropped out of the habit. Comes of mates having kids and suddenly finding the gang I once went out with have stopped going out. That’s no excuse for me though.

Tracey: I have to cut back the drinking. Note: I absolutely don’t intend to stop, but I’ve got past a bottle a night and it’s getting a little silly. I hope the benefits to be a massive calorie reduction, which may help shed a pound or ten, but that’s not the main driver. I’ll feel better in the mornings. And I’ll have more money. I reckon my strategy is going to be to cut out drinking at home on week nights, and only ever drink more than a bottle of wine if I’m out. Sitting at home in front of the telly with glass after glass must stop!

And Sean’s? We’re not sure yet, but it has to involve him getting a girlfriend!

Home Life

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Dec 22

Velux Blinds?

by onequestion

We were talking about the joy, but also the downside to having roof lights, or Velux windows in your bedroom.

The joy is definitely the amazing amount of light you get from an angled window, so much more than from the same sized hole in the wall.

The downside of that is that in the summer you have loads of light pouring into your bedroom at dawn, which is as early as 5.00. you’re likely to suffer nightmares of car headlights bearing down on you.

Velux make some blackout blinds that do the job very well, but they are rather expensive, and limited in design. We discovered Blinds 2 Go who offer a good range of Velux Blinds at a reasonable price. In fact I have some in my bedroom now, and I’m looking forward to the lighter evenings just so that I can see how well they work.

If you’re thinking of cutting holes in your roof, we say go for it. We love ours. Just don’t try it your self unless you really know what you’re doing!

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Nov 15

What should you insure?

by onequestion

This question came up yesterday when Bobby’s mum was around at the office for tea. She had just ordered a new flash TV that ‘s apparently so thin you can barely see it side on. Mrs Bobby, “Hey, Bobby, what’s your mum called” “Sheila”, ah, right then, Sheila was asking about the insurance the store had offered her and whether or not she should take it out.

It has to be said that we were evenly split between the girls and the boys on this one. The girls in the office all saw the insurance as a good thing, the boys were lees sure. We felt that the warranty itself should be sufficient cover, and raised the question of how likely it is that something will break these days anyway.

But then the boys don’t insure their no claims bonus on their cars while the girls do.

It’s not a sex thing, more a caution/reckless thing.

We all agreed that you should definitely insure your house with both buildings insurance and contents insurance, that you had to insure your car for legal reasons, and your life if you are in a relationship, but not bother if you are single.

Health insurance is a difficult subject. You shouldn’t need it – but we all agreed that should we get ill we would not be too keen on going into the health system.

All the rest comes down to peace of mind. If you’ll worry about the thing if it isn’t insured then it’s probably worth the cost to insure it – or be really good and put away the cost of the insurance and thereby have a savings pot that should soon build to something worth having.

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