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The Link Magazine. October 1995
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Networking for home working Link readers
MAUREEN PEARSON Same Day Local
A.T.T. Electrical Services Do you work or run a small busi-
ness from home in West or North
TAXATION O House wiring & wiring checks Swindon? Perhaps you are a free-
ADVISOR O Electrical repairs lance contractor or a consultant,
or one of the increasing number of
O Immersions
Shower repaired/ installed
For Advice and Help on O teleworkers who has rejected the
Personal and Business Tax O Extra sockets/lights hassle of commuting in favour of a
O Security lighting modem link to the office.
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ing pattern, The Link magazine is
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24 hour response -
Tel: (0 1793) 724172 J.I.B. and want to meet others.
Tel: 874240 Restered Marketing consultant Jan Baird
has now worked from her Jan Baird
Peatmoor home for a year after office environment. It's something
deciding she wanted more flex- you have to get used to but I do
ibility and less stress in her life. find myself talking to the cats a
"Like so many people, I always little too often!"
seemed to be rushing around from If you're interested in swopping
meeting to meeting, often arriving experiences with others, the net-
COMPUTERS AT COMPETITIVE PRICES home late and exhausted. Work- work group will gather for the first
FROM
A LOCAL COMAINY ing from home suits me much bet- time on Friday 13 October, 8pm,
PROVIDING ter - the pace is slower and fewer in the bar at the DeVere Hotel.
A PERSONAL SERVICE distractions mean you often get Look for copies of the magazine on
more done than you would in a the table.
busy office. I also seem to have There are three marketing con-
much more time now for other sultants and three people who use
things. Macintosh computers already in-
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Send out the boat me hearties!

The mini-pagoda on an island op-
;j TOOTHILL posite the Chinese Experience res-
taurant at Peatmoor Lagoon looks
very nice. Except it's getting diffi-
CHINESE KITCHEN cult to see because it is becoming
Chinese Cuisine, English Food and Fish & Chips overgrown.
The pagoda once looked lovely
Tel: 487055 Telephone Orders at night, with floodlights casting
shadows across the still waters.
welcome before 11pm
But no more. The vegetation
OPEN smothers the lighting and there is
Sunday 6pm - 1130pm HOME DELIVERY only gloom.
Monday Closed SERVICE So avast there Thamesdown
Tuesday 5pm- 1130pm Eves only: 5pm - 10pm Council! Cast off a team to do
12noon-1.45pm 5pm- 1130pm
Wed some maintenance work.
Thurs 12noon 145pm 5pm - 1130pm Delivery in W Swindon: £1 Last month's photograph of trol-
Delivery to other areas S1.50
Friday 12noon 145pm 5pm- 1145pm leys dumped in a Freshbrook
Saturday 12noon 145pm 5pm - 1145pm Toothill Village Centre stream got an instant result. Will it
Open Bank Holiday Monday from 5pm Toothill Swindon be the same this month?
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Published: 28 October
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Copy for December:
Published by Editorial: Roger Ogle 8
Haydon Wick
16 November
Abbey Meads one year on
West Swindon Publications Publisher/Editor 9
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