For many, the road to heaven may end here in Canterbury?
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Job hunters have been asked to search for Easter eggs in the offices of a JobCentre Plus contractor in London. More than 150 unemployed people have been invited to look for 35 chocolate eggs hidden in
the offices of the Skills Training Centre UK in Southwark. Prizes include payment for a licence to work on building sites and vouchers to buy clothes for interviews. But the egg hunt has been criticised by job hunters, who see it as demeaning. Egg hunt organiser Catrina Lynch said of the event: "It is not meant in a demeaning way. It's going to be fun."
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Job of the day: Any takers for this freelance job posted on writerfind.com? "We are looking for a freelance writer who has editorial contacts in the spiritual-wellness travel, natural horsemanship, and/or metaphysical/inter-species communication magazine or newspaper world (print or online), especially high-end publications."
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Our 16-year-old daughter was chosen to go on the Spirit of New Zealand, the sail training ship, write her proud parents. "There's a medical assessment form to be filled with the usual medical history checklists of asthma, diabetes, immunisations, etc. So it's off to the doctor's office to check their computer records and sign on the dotted line. Trouble is, our daughter's been so lacking in illness and accident that she hasn't been there for nine years. So she has to come in to prove she doesn't have any conditions preventing her from functioning on the boat. So she waits for 30 minutes in a room full of sick people, sees a doctor she's never seen before who asks all the questions confirming all of the ticks. No extra questions, no extra tests or even use of a stethoscope. $23, thank you. And her nine- year record of not visiting a doctor was broken to prove that she didn't need to go to the doctor!"
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Dave from Warkworth needs to think harder before he switches from cask plonk to bottled finery, says a reader. "If we take his logic that more transparent wine is less alcoholic, we're left shunning all white wines [and roses] in favour of heavy reds. Make sense? What if we factor in vodka and other colourless spirits? To put his mind at ease: the colour in red wine comes from grape skins. The alcohol doesn't, and [as vodka proves] is colourless. He's quite able to go on drinking boxed rubbish and still get all the bang he needs for his buck."
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