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My name is Anna and I've been living in Marbella on the Costa del Sol for 8 years. A recent convert to camping, ( had no idea how much fun it could be, yes, seriously) and spend most of my Thursdays whining to my husband, pleading for him to take me and the three little darlings for a week-end camping by the white, unspoilt beaches of Tarifa, right on the Atlantic Ocean.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

property to rent birmingham

Property to rent Birmingham, last month over 12,000 people searched for a property to rent or let in Birmingham and the surrounding area. Rental agencies are struggling to find properties so if you have bought a buy to let property then now is a good time to get it on the market. There are tenants looking for a properties. Studio apartments and 1 bedroom apartments remain popular with people unable to get 100% mortgages. Time spent in rental accomodation is set to increase until there is an increase in accepted mortgage applications.
Property for let in Birmingham remains popular due to the vibrant city with plenty of job opportunities and also the fact that Birmingham has some of the best schools in the UK. The grammar schools are particularly high performing but competition is fierce. The grammar school of King Edward the Sixth in Birmingham continues to be placed very highly on the best perfoming schools in the UK. Application depends on examination performance. These tests need a great deal of preparation as they are consist of tests that are not dealt with in primary school mainly verbal and non verbal reasoning tests.
At King Edward the Sixth the school tests for children entering year 7 at 11 years of age, consist of,

Verbal reasoning


Non verbal reasoning

Mathematics and

Reading comprehension/literacy skills

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Winter in the sun

Only this winter is hasn't been winter in the sun. We have started to develop fins and rather than say " buenos dias" in the mornings we say, " quack."
We have had pretty much non stop rain since Christmas and there are no signs of it stopping. Even in the UK it doesn't rain this heavily all the time. You get some fog, some broken clouds, blue skies with frost and yes, even snow.
All we are getting in Marbella is rain and the very occasional rainbow.