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Living the Dream - 4. Ship or Store?

Ship or Store? The house in Cyprus is sparsely furnished; mostly by a well-known Swedish furniture retailer. We felt this was perfectly adequate for a holiday home, and why not for our full-time home? We resolved to store our UK furniture, rather than ship it, and obtained several quotes. Wow!
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Living the Dream - 3. Making a Budget

Making a budget Regrettably, life in the sun still has pretty much the same bills as life in the rain. In ‘Living the Dream – 2. Paying the Bills [https://stuartlennon.com/living-the-dream-2-paying-the-bills/]‘, I explained that we were assuming zero revenue to start. Hopefully, we will both be generating something, but
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Living the Dream - 2. Paying the Bills

Paying the bills Like it or lump it, paying the bills is fundamental. If you want to build a new life, it is one of the first things to address. In my last post [https://stuartlennon.com/living-the-dream-1-can-we-do-it/], I promised to give an insight into the decision-making process that led
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Living the Dream - 1. Can we do it?

Living the Dream Three hundred and twenty six days of sunshine [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/cyprus/7187314/Cyprus-Island-in-the-sun-326-days-a-year.html] per year, a laid-back lifestyle and some decent golf courses. That’s living the dream. My wife, Margaret (Mags) and I are going to test that statement.
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Hang on a minute lads, I've got a great idea...

So ends ‘The Italian Job’ [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Italian_Job], the iconic 1969 movie starring Michael Caine, as the cast hang precariously over an alpine precipice. We never learn the nature of the idea, or whether it works. [https://i1.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/
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21st Century Entrepreneur

I’m collecting business cards. Not other peoples’, just my own. I’m a 21st Century Entrepreneur. There’s a buttoned-up corporate card for my work in anti money laundering. I have an awesome one for Nero’s Notes, featuring a cartoon of the little man himself. Finally, there is
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A bit dusty in here...Time for a Reboot

Eh up! It’s been a while since I posted anything in here. I’ve been busy. It’s high-time for a reboot. [https://i0.wp.com/stuartlennon.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/SL-Profile.jpg?ssl=1] Kitchen selfieReboot Firstly, NerosNotes [https://pocketnotebooks.co.uk] is keeping me occupied and
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Rioja - T minus 2

It’s Sunday night. God and BA-willing, in 48 hours I’ll be in Bilbao, dragging the tight-head out of a bar and looking for the bus to Logrono. The plan is that we hook up with the ? in Logrono for tapas and perhaps a medicinal glass of Rioja. On
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