May 15th, 2009
I have always dreamt of living in a country cottage one day. One of those stone built cottages with a garden, an open fire that keeps you warm in winter, smoke pouring out of the chimney. I would love to snuggle up on the sofa with the fire burning bright, slippers on and a warm mug of hot chocolate. There would be homemade cakes and shortbread too - melt in the mouth sort of shortbread.
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May 1st, 2009
So I’ve been redundant for about a month now, and there are pretty slim pickings out there.
Yes, there are a fair few badly written adverts in the papers by desperate recruitment consultants, attempting to harvest CVs from all the people like me, dumping fully half of them in the bin before they even start to skim scan the rest, throwing the rest away because they are blurred by the substandard printer that their manager bought on the cheap in (more…)
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May 1st, 2009
Cosmetics. What is it about them that makes them so popular. why is it that women are so disappointed with their looks which means they spend millions of pounds on cosmetics covering up their natural look. Why? Why are they all so unhappy. Or are they? Is it more the fact that they are sucked into the stereotype of what society expects them to be. All those glossy (also known as photoshoped) magazines showing unblemished skin and peopel are sucked (more…)
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January 27th, 2008
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January 24th, 2008
Okay firstly when digitial TV came out I was over joyed I though it was a fantasic idea, now I can get channel 5 and all the other crazy cable channel, it would be like living in America. But it hasn’t really worked out that well. Yes I can get a whole load of new channels, yes it is a bit like how I would imagine living in America is like, constant reruns of Scrubs, american who’s line is it anyway and CSI.
The problem is quality when the signal was bad on anoglog, the picture would get a little worse, when the signal is weak on digital the damm thing stops. It just stops, some time just the image, sometime the sound, sometimes both. But it is completely unwatchable and depending on the channel it can be ever five or six seconds. This can completely destory certain programmes, exspecaily comedy, for jokes to work you really need to know the whole set up and the punch line, and timing is kind of important don’t you think.
Anyway this has driven me to work damm it, the last two page I put together are anti aging products and endoscopic brow lift, and this was done whilst the TV was spluttering.
January 24th, 2008
We’ve been taking alot recently about quite serious issues - troop deaths, the horrors of heathrow, so I thought it was time for something that was a little lighter! This is the story of Amil Shah. There are two very different Amil Shah’s in the world. One lives in London. He is a law abiding citizen with no criminal record (that we can find!). He has a very stable job working as an optometrist for Specsavers in Ilford, and infact after years of hard work and dedication he is now one of the directors there. He enjoys his life, and he pays his tax’s. (more…)
January 23rd, 2008
Alex Rodriguez has become the center of some controversy and it has become sad. He is going to be on his own away from his wife and daughter. Their daughter will be the real loser in this situation. I do believe that personally you need both a Mom and a Dad for it to work but that is just my take. Without going into this, for the record Alex Rodriguez is known as a guy who can hit in the regular season but post-season time, he fails to show up (more…)
January 21st, 2008
I confess I followed the first series of Big Brother with the same morbid fascination as everyone else, but I found that the novelty wore off very quickly. While it was an interesting social experiment, we now have to deal with the consequences, i.e. that every other programme on our television screens is some variation on the same lazy, lowest common denominator, voyeuristic, worthless tosh. (more…)
January 20th, 2008
It’s been very interesting to watch the events unfold with the opening of Heathrow’s new Terminal 5. As a Heathrow avoider of many, many years (I’ll go to Amsterdam and fly via Schipol Airport rather than endure Heathrow’s horrendous travelling nightmares), I wondered if the airport’s brand new shiny terminal was going to be its crowning glory. I even considered that if it was so good it might be worth giving Heathrow another try. Alas the horrors of Heathrow live on in Terminal 5. From the news reports it looks as if it has even bypassed some of its own records when it comes to throwing into the travel plans of holidaymakers!
Why is it that Heathrow, which should be our country’s flagship airport, has been designed in such a way as to make travelling through it one of the most stressful parts of going overseas on holiday? Why hasn’t it been designed in a way that makes travel fun and easy? Last time I went through Heathrow I – as with many other passengers – had to negotiate myself and my luggage from one baggage retrieval point in one terminal to a check-in desk in another terminal. This meant not only having to physically ensure that all of my luggage made it to the bus, but also having to stand suspended by little more than a leather strap whilst trying to keep a close guard on my bags because the bus was so crowded. Why can’t something be done – like bigger buses, better thought out layouts for inside buses, even more buses (like a constant conveyor belt of them so that people didn’t all try to cram on the same bus because they had to get to their next check-in desk on time in order to make their flight and the next bus might make the connection too tight)? I wonder if the Heathrow bigwigs have ever travelled as a regular passenger (ie not staff, not VIP, not first) If they have, have they done it with two small children and a baby (plus obligatory buggy)? If not, they have no idea about the real issues facing passengers who use their airport.
The baggage issues are hilarious. OK, so I’m sorry if you’re one of the people who had their holiday spoilt because of the baggage problems, that’s not fun. No one enjoyes having to deal with the all too beautiful “I’ve just had a face lift“ helpers who just frustrate you even more with their niceness. However Heathrow was notorious for not being able to get baggage and traveler on the same plane before the new terminal was even thought of, so it’s a little strange that they didn’t think about how to make this part of the process more effective (and even –dare one say–test it) when the plans for T5 were being made!
For the moment, I think it’s safe to say that I’ll continue to avoid the having to que and the dodgy coffee the vending machines give you at Heathrow and it’s horrible reputation for stranding and separating people and their luggage. There are far more friendly airports to use as a gateway to the rest of the world, and most of them have a reputation for getting passengers where they need to be, with the right luggage, at the right time. It raises the question however, if other airports can do this, why does Heathrow make such a mess of it?
January 17th, 2008
Don’t get me started on cushions.
OK, here’s the thing. So I’m buying this day bed, it’s brilliant, probably the best thing to ever come into my life. But it needs that kind of squishy, creature comforts sofa type feel to it. The solution was clear and simple- Big cushions, soft fabric, I was thinking maybe three, colour co-ordinated with the duvet cover.
Oh, if only it had been that simple. Here’s the thing about cushions. In the world there are many different cushions. They come in a variety of shapes and shades. This is so that the consumer has a choice about which cushion he or she can purchase. Except, and this is the important thing, this is very important, the only type of cushion NOT available is the type of cushion that looks even remotely like the one you want.
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