A worthy cause from The Independent: Give a day’s pay for Africa – PLEASE HELP

“Please text Indy to 70000 to donate £5 to the Disasters Emergency Committee, as many times as you think you should, and fill in the form on page 26 to allow the charities to reclaim the tax you have paid on that money.”

Love cheat footballer Wayne Rooney set to go up in flames [Edenbridge Bonfire Night]

Amplify’d from www.kentonline.co.uk Love cheat footie star Wayne Rooney will be burned at the stake in Kent, we can reveal today. Well, sort of… Villagers in Edenbridge found out this morning it’s Manchester United’s moneybags footballer who’s been chosen for a ritual roasting. The 30ft tall effigy took a week to make out of a steel [...]

Falling in love costs you friends

Amplify’d from www.bbc.co.uk Falling in love comes at the cost of losing two close friends, a study says. We probably all know that a passionate new relationship can leave you little time for others, but now science has put some numbers on the observation. Oxford University researchers asked people about their inner core of friendships [...]

London from the Eye

It was my brother’s 28th birthday (December 2006) and I decided to take him and my Mum and Dad out for the day. We had a meal lined up and a boat trip down the Thames. We also have tickets for the London Eye. You could use this as a guide to the City of [...]

Flooding in the Summer, 2007

I thought I’d post my experience of the major floods that hit the UK last Summer. This was written on 20th July 2007: <start> Well I had an interesting day yesterday (as did many others in the UK). I was working out of the Newbury Business Park [West Berkshire, South England] yesterday (not my usual [...]