UK Registering Your Car, Vaping Virgin, Alpine Summer Virgin, Contemporary Camping Virgin, Canal Virgin, Blue Badge

How to UK Register Your Car

by Chartreuse Green 06/3/2014 19.39

Do you have an attachment to your non UK car; all the associations with your travels, outings, friends and adventures on foreign soil? With some patience, form-filling and a certain financial outlay, you can register your car in the UK and this article explains how...

Vaping Virgin

by Chartreuse Green 01/12/2013 13.45

I didn’t intend on that day to leave cigarettes behind me.

Back in 2006, I had the distinction of being the only person in my Quit Smoking Group who gave up on a permanent basis. Six years later...

Contemporary Camping Virgin

by Chartreuse Green 23/9/2013 15.39

As for many Brits of my demographic, the 'c' word was coloured, or rather washed out, by early memories of cold, damp and other forms of discomfort.

I became a convert over the months of a developing...

Canal Virgin

by Chartreuse Green 1/8/2013 15.39

For months I'd heard tales of, seen photos of, and even had a phone call from, 'Dave's Boat'’, a sort of party-float, narrow boat of somewhat battered demeanour where alcohol flows as generously as the Ashby canal and rollicking cheer is the default setting. Whilst staying with friends a walk away from the good ship, word went up that...

Blue Badge - You Have To Want It

by Chartreuse Green 1/8/2013 15.39

With a Blue Badge up for renewal, I received a letter I should have acted on immediately. Issued by the local council it enables the posessor to park in disabled bays and on yellow lines for certain times in certain conditions. Step one: apply on line.

After four attempts during which pages failed to fill in and my session timed out, the text was completed with only a photo upload remaining. I asked my aerial photographer significant other to take a suitably flattering portrait pic but the ideal moment with blow-dried hair and makeup failed ...