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Energy saving and the holiday season

At holiday season time it is often a time that people don’t think too much about energy savings as the Enigin blog points out. This is often a time all care about energy saving goes to the wind as houses are decked out with illuminous Santas, and the latest TV character such as Bart Simpson.

Some may see it in bad taste. Others may have fun going round the neighborhood to see who has the best lit up garden, house More

Why I don’t Feel Sorry For Sarah Ferguson

 Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York has been in several embarrassing incidents. One of the most embarrassing events she has been caught up in was offering access to Prince Andrew for a sum of 500,000 pounds. All this is filmed by a newspaper tabloid in a stink they had set up. In the video she seems happy to receive a down payment of 40,000 pounds.

I am not sorry for her because in the video she makes some More

A Lecture In Meat

BBQ season is upon us. Alcohol and summer weather makes us all talk about things which nobody really cares about but seem slightly intriguing (like Calf implants and why you don’t see baby pigeons) and the air smells of badly over-done meat cooked with that loveable boring quality (no sauces or relish; if there is salad then you can bet it’ll consist of lettuce and tomatoes and that’s about it) that us British people have been forever known for.

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Your Second Christening.

It’s strange how we come up with nicknames for one another, isn’t it? And it will often begin with our parents. Some people have a nickname that has stuck with them right since being a baby! It makes you wonder why parents bother to give their children a proper name in the first place sometimes, doesn’t it?

If your mum and dad don’t call you by an alternative name, then you can be sure to get a new title once More

The Shoe-Lace Rule

As a child there were things you did and didn’t do. For example, if you were a boy you didn’t bring a designer beach bag to school. You also didn’t go over to the other side of the school if you didn’t belong there (we were divided in to two ‘bands’ and it was best to stay with people from your band or risk a thrashing). You also DID NOT do your shoe-laces up properly. This was the kiss of More

The Humble Jackdaw

I love four things in life: chocolate, books, e-marketing (it’s my job) and birds (ones that fly and ones that don’t). I love the blue tits, the birds of prey and the swans, even though my Nan does insist that they break people’s arms for no good reason. But there is one bird that I love that my Nan despises above all else: it is the evil Jackdaw, of course. The crow-like bird that hangs from the bird-feeder in her More

Meat Mad?

Permanent vet jobs are few and far between. That never used to be the case. Back when I had my first cat I used to see the same vet over and over, but nowadays it’s a different vet every time. Which leads me to something else: another thing that has changed is the looks on peoples faces when I say “I love my meat.”(Although I should say I do not condone eating pets in any way.) At one time in More

The Revolution COMETH

There are only two kinds of people in this world: those who dare to BBQ throughout the year, regardless of the conditions being ideal or not, and the other—those who only BBQ when it is hot outside, those who must learn the error of their ways. Otherwise known as the pretenders. They don’t care about the real morals of BBQing, you see, they only care about looking like BBQers. It’s a blight on our society which needs to be controlled More

Watch Out!

I grew up with an intense and debilitating fear of spreadsheets. Please don’t laugh. This is not a joke! (But it may be a bit of an exaggeration) It all stems from my Father: his intense (and some might argue disturbing) love of spreadsheets started it all, turning a cog in my brain that bore deeper and deeper, until one day the mere mention of the word threatened to tip me over the edge and make me mute.

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If I were The Prime Minster

As Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, the first duty I would conduct is to eliminate all opposition. For me to rule under my benevolent velvet-gloved iron fist, I need no competition and no whining in my ear. A quick Soviet style purge is required. The title of Prime Minister would still exist, but in a different form.

Once the ugly business is out of the way, I can now concentrate on making not only my country better, but the More