Granite Worktops Cause Cookery-Envy

I admit it; I’m a bit of a geek when it comes to cookery. I always want the best, whether it’s the shiniest knives or the latest hi-tech blender, but a recent trip to a friend’s restaurant had the green-eyed monster out in force over the lovely granite worktops they had in the kitchen.  Read more... (192 words, 1 image, estimated 46 secs reading time)

Barcode Your Baby with Sticky Labels

Kettering hospital have come up with a great new way to improve the safety of newborn babies – barcoding them with sticky labels.  Read more... (303 words, 1 image, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

Villas in Spain – Don’t Judge a Book and All That

That’s right, villas in Spain – notice the plural? That’s what a new friend of mine has and all I can think is ‘why didn’t I make friends with this person sooner?’ I think that’s largely because I’m an awful person, but either way, having a friend who has multiple holiday properties can never really be considered a bad thing.  Read more... (292 words, estimated 1:10 mins reading time)

Storage, Ipswich – the Perfect Revenge

Breakups can be rough on all involved, especially on the person who gets broken up with. This happened to a friend of mine not too long ago; he moved this girl in with him, they were going to get married, they’d even bought a cat, and what happens? She dumps him – not just dumps him, but dumps him for his best friend. This ‘best friend’ wasn’t me, I hasten to add, but you get the idea – it was a serious ‘dude, your life sucks’ moment. What do you do in a situation like that? Revenge, obviously. In this case, storage Ipswich featured heavily.  Read more... (397 words, estimated 1:35 mins reading time)

A New Challenge For Exhibition Stand Designers

I wonder what exhibition stand designers might think of a new website that aims to help companies make a real impact on the trade show floor. The site has a host of ideas, tips and advice to producing the best stand possible.  Read more... (217 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)

Lego Loan

I really wanted to build a house out of Lego like my hero James May. I really wanted to, but I didn’t have the 20 thousand pounds required to pay for the bricks. You see my difficulty? Yes. My credit rating was pretty bad, so I couldn’t get a loan from the bank. If my credit rating was good, I’m sure they’d have loved to have lent me the money for a Lego house. But it wasn’t, so I decided to consider a guarantor loan.  Read more... (243 words, 1 image, estimated 58 secs reading time)

London Bubble Thing To Embarrass Chinese

With only a sellotaped-together five pound note and a few coppers in their pot, the silly British are on the look out for some scam to make the London 2012 Olympics slightly less rubbish than it is definitely going to be. Cursing their luck that they agreed to do it just before the biggest recession man has ever seen, the British Olympic Committee has deigned to invest in a bubble platform thing that will blind people to the fact that China’s Olympic celebration will make Britain’s effort look like going round your Gran’s for a cup of tea and one of her rock buns.   Read more... (222 words, 1 image, estimated 53 secs reading time)

Scots Introduce Egg And Flour Ban

With the highest incidence of genius in the world, it is unsurprising that police in Scotland have decided to ban egg and flour to prevent a repeat of last year’s egg-and-flour rampage conducted by youths in towns such as Hawick, Kelso and Moffat.

"Not the intended use, say coppers"  Read more... (145 words, 1 image, estimated 35 secs reading time)

Anti-aging Uncovered

Almost every morning when I wake up I think, “Right, I’m going to stop smoking!” and light up a few minutes later.

And then I have a little think about maybe doing some exercise. And then I don’t.

But Eddie Izzard’s just run 43 marathons in 51 days. Well done, good work.  Read more... (230 words, 1 image, estimated 55 secs reading time)

What would Plato say about Google Street View?

I was as addicted as the next geek to Google Street View when it launched.

I ‘walked’ down to town and back, hung out for a while, then ‘walked’ right back home again.

Then I thought, “Hang on, get a life!” and realised that if I so wished, I could do all of this minus computer, thank you very much.  Read more... (274 words, 1 image, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)