Don’t be surprised if the streets are empty and curtains drawn in this central Russian region Wednesday as residents take up an offer by the regional governor to help stem Russia’s demographic crisis.
Ulyanovsk Gov. Sergei Morozov has decreed Sept. 12 a Day of Conception and is giving couples time off from work to procreate. Couples who give birth nine months later on Russia’s national day — June 12 — will receive money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes.
Someone wrote an emotinal account of putting his pet to sleep for the final time.
Very touching.
If the story is too dad, there’s a funny photoshop of Britney on the left sidebar.
A FORMER professional footballer reckons he’s found an ununsual cure for arthritis WD40.
Burghley Park Golf Club member Eric McKaig, 70, of Fane Close, Stamford, has ignored medical advice and joined a growing number of people who use the lubricant to ease their creaking, painful joints.
And he swears it has ended his days of pain and given him his quality of life back.
For most of us who visit a Travelodge, it is a fleeting pleasure. Park the car, go to bed and get away as early as possible in the morning.
But for David and Jean Davidson, it is home.
They arrived in 1985, and enjoyed it so much that they never left.
“There is always something going on outside our window,” said Mr Davidson, 79, a former Royal Navy sailor and war veteran, in the couple’s room beside the A1.
“Our room looks out to the car park and a busy slip road where lorries pass by throughout the night.
“We have everything we need here – and the staff are like family now. We only have to walk across the car park for meals.
“There is just no reason why we’d want to go home.”
The couple’s love affair with the Travelodge began 22 years ago when they stopped in Newark, Nottinghamshire, during a visit to see a sick aunt.
When she died four months later they packed their bags, locked up their one-bedroom flat in Sheffield and moved into the roadside hotel.