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I’ve always felt that it’s important to have down time, especially after a long day at work. I do a variety of things in my spare time to alleviate stress and enjoy myself. I like to keep fit, so I regularly attend the gym and play football, which is a great way to make friends and have fun while exercising, even if none of us are quite of the ability of Wayne Rooney. I also enjoy slowing the pace down and resting my body. To that end, I love to read and play guitar. I’m currently reading A confederacy of dunces by John Kennedy Toole, which is a hilarious book that I can not recommend highly enough. When I play guitar I tend to play hard rock, there’s probably no better way to unwind than to plug in a guitar and lose yourself in your favourite song or riff!
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My little sister loves to cook, so we have been taking advantage of this by having her cook all our meals! Recently she made a beautiful prawn dish. I’d never really tried prawns before but as soon as the scent from the kitchen hit me I was salivating! She cooked the prawns with onions, peppers, mushrooms, a dash of chilli powder (we all love spicy food) and garlic paste, before finally adding a little squirt of honey to sweeten the dish a little. Although it may sound like an odd combination of ingredients, it worked tremendously. The dish had the right combination of sweet and savoury, crunchy and soft, just thinking about it now is making me hungry!
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Dogs are man’s best friend; so accordingly, we like to treat them as such, as our best friends. They love anything we do for them, be it playing fetch, tug of war, or just laying around and giving them a little loving. They are easy to please but they do require attention. People have found all sorts of ways to give them more attention. If you look around a pet store you’ll find more toys than you could ever imagine, toys like ropes and frisbees, toys that you can stuff food into, toys you can freeze for teething dogs, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Now, dogs really love toys but people also pamper their beloved pets by buying them small dog sweaters and shirts, and even shoes. That’s a bit questionable how much the dogs actually enjoy that form of pampering!
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It’s no secret that we’re living through difficult financial times, and it has been a shame to see some of my favourite stores disappear from the streets, all because of financial errors made by the banks! This time has been particularly difficult for me as I am a recent university graduate and was looking forward to working for a year before going to medical school. Due to the poor job market, it took me a long time to get a job, which I eventually got working in a local hospital. I was only working for two months before my hours were massively reduced due to the closure of one of the wards, a consequence of budget cuts within the NHS due to the recession! I’m pleased that we seem to be coming out of the recession and have every faith that the economy will recover and things will pick up again in the next two or three years.
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