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I’ve been tagged by Englishmum to answer the following questions will apparently establish whether I’m a “knob or someone you could have a pint with”. So there we are, and here goes…
Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Good grief, what’s wrong with “What’s your favourite colour?”
I admire lots of people, entrepreneurs, my great grandmother, people who give their time to charitable causes selflessly.
When were you happiest
I think I’m at my happiest now or maybe ‘contented’ might be a better way to describe it.
What was your most embarrassing …
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Check out this video. It’s the ‘real’ DisneyLand Paris but they’ve made it look like it’s on miniature using a new technique called ‘Tilt Shift’. Very cool.
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Little Mummy?and Post Office? have teamed up to give you the chance to win a ?100 Post Office gift card. The gift card is redeemable at over 17,000?UK stores including parents favourites?Mothercare, Toys R Us and Argos. The gift card is very flexible for parents – you don’t have to spend?the gift card all at once, or all in one store. How you use the card is completely up to you. You can use it to shop at your favourite stores, have a great day …
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On the 1st Day of Christmas
Green & Blacks sent me a lovely selection box of their finest bars to regift. I reluctantly (only because I love them so much myself!) gave them to my next door neighbour for taking care of our dog.
On the 2nd Day of Christmas
Xbox sent us two fantastic Kinect games – Kinectimals and Kinect Sports. We’re currently giving them both a thorough review. Early testings have gone very well indeed
On the 3rd Day of Christmas
Tesco sent us a ?30 clothing voucher, …
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The season of goodwill rolls on and after the success of last week’s Argos toy giveaway it’s time for the home to get a little treat. Deck your own halls like they do in the magazines with ?150 Homebase Vouchers.
Here are a few things the winner might choose…
Perhaps you’ll go for a ‘real’ christmas tree this year, I like this norway spruce.
I’m also loving the negative bauble craze. This completely unchristmassy lime bauble says “I don’t even like Turkey”
Or what about this cute reindeer bauble, love …
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Holidays are coming! So let’s kick things off with a nice giveaway shall we?
Argos are offering one lucky reader the chance to win this fantastic selection of toys ideal for a boy or girl. These toys have been specially selected by myself as ones that I’d love to have for Erin (in fact we have the Vtech Storio already!) One lucky winner chosen at random will scoop the lot!
So let’s take a look at the toys;
First up, the main prize is the Vtech Storio
This …
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Guest post by BigDaddy
Inspired by the Top Gun T-shirt that I’m wearing and my obsession with all things 80?s I thought it might be cool to figure out what my favourite movies from my youth are and why I loved (and still love) them. Plus top 10?s always divide opinion and generate debate so feel free to disagree with me, throw in your own choices and tell me to ?Shut up Fool!!?
1. Top Gun
No surprises here, I have the T-Shirt for crying out loud! It was the movie …
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In The News
Glasgow City Council have paid ?95,000 for a logo for the Commonwealth Games made up of the primary colours (plus green), the letter G and a few circles, hardly value is it. I’m a big fan of the Olympics and these other large sporting events and don’t usually begrudge the funding at all. I do like a bit of value for money though and this overly simplistic rip off logo (apparently the logo is very similar to the logo of some arts council, shown on left …
