And nor do I like lying to you. Why am I declaring this? Well because I recently ran a competition and reviewed some chocolates that were sent to me by a lady called Genevie who, according to her website, ran a family business hand making chocolates from her home in Scotland. Tales of her son helping to taste them. The love that went into them. I highlighted the fact that
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The Gallery — Movies
This is possibly the hardest theme to date. I scoured all of our Facebook photo albums. The hard disk on both my laptop and the family desktop. Even our newly installed “grunty box” that sits in a corner and is simply a storage unit for music and photos. I looked all the way back to photos from 2003 and drew pretty much a blank. Until I found
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But I never win anything
I often hear this from people. oh but you are so lucky, I never win anything I always reply with well do you enter anything? It is amazing how many times people then say “well no, what’s the point? I wouldn’t win” You have to enter competitions to win them! I have won everything from a private gig with KT Tunstall in our lounge and breaksfast show being hosted
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27 year old gets naked. Shocker
OK so I am wading into the Prince Harry “furore”. I have seen the pics, I admit. Yes, he is naked but you don’t actually see anything. All this talk of “crown jewels” is nonsense. I don’t see the problem. Single man, on holiday, gets naked whilst playing a game. Nobody got hurt Nobody was snorting drugs Nobody was doing anything illegal. Where is the problem?
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Topless cycling
Yep you read that right. It is the new thing for this season, isn’t it? Isn’t it? It isn’t? Then why is this an advert on a website? I came across this on Sunday whilst looking for some cycling shorts to go with my new birthday bike. Why doesnt she have more clothes on? She can’t ride a bike like! And would it really detract from advertising the shorts if
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The Gallery — Sky
Sky. Oh I love sky. I miss not being able to see too much of it living in a built up area. In cities I love to stand and look at the sky, watch the clouds roll by; the planes criss crossing it; the stars twinkling at night. When we went to Cornwall recently I stood staring at the sky for ages. It was huge!!! So I
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Dear Lord Sugar
You are quite the bully, aren’t you? Nobody can deny that over the years you have been very successful in business, of that there is no doubt. You remind people often of how you started off selling electrical parts out of a van. Not an episode of The Apprentice goes by without you making some reference to Hackney or your market stall. However now you are just a bully
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I might be asleep
but I can still hear you. My eyes might be shut but this ear is all I need to turn me into a lean mean barking machine. Asleep to Attack mode in 2.5 seconds. I know EXACTLY what is going on. So watch yourselves, alright? If I hear that lead get rattled…. I will be up and out of this bed quicker than you can shout TEVEZ.
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Food shopping
It started with a text: Mum, we are just leaving dad’s. See you in a couple of hours Shit, what? I thought you were coming home tomorrow. There is no food in the fridge you can’t come home yet. We have been away for the weekend and have been living on take aways and “Dine in for a tenner” deals. Oh and wine. Sunday’s dinner was virtually all liquid.
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The Gallery — Emotions
Another great category for the Gallery this week. Looking back through old photos always brings back the emotion of the event being photographed for me. Most of the photos that convey emotion in my collection are of the children either laughing or looking terrified on roller coasters. And they don’t like me using photos of them so the hunt continued. And then I found our wedding photos. And this
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PS I love you
There was talk in the press last week that it is, on average, seven weeks into a relationship before one party utters those three all important words. I was quite shocked at that. I thought it would be much sooner. We seem to love everything these days (well I certainly do!). But are they really important to say? Do you need to hear “I love you” from your partner on
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Royal Mail Fail
So let’s say you have something of value to post. For argument’s sake some vouchers from a luxury department store that are an item for a friend organising a raffle. The top prize to entice people attending a village fete into buying raffle tickets for a very worthy charity. You want to make sure they are safe in transit from the midlands to the home counties so you