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London Marathon Sponsorship

Posted by Paul Smith on Friday, February 5th, 2010

No, i’m not silly enough to dig out my running shoes and take on 26 1/2 gruelling miles of London’s streets along with a whole bunch of other like minded crazy people. That said, one of our own Miss Kelly Frew has decided that this is the year she will be taking on the challenge [...]

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Grandma We Love You…

Posted by Paul Smith on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Or not in the case of this searcher who found their way onto our Gifts UK website with a cracker of a search term (click for larger image):

It’s not been a bad year for the GGUK site. We built the site in late November 2008 and have left it virtually untouched until October 2009 when [...]

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Gifts Site Looking For Competition Prizes

Posted by Paul Smith on Friday, September 4th, 2009

Hello Merchants
I was about to send out my usual begging letter to our featured merchants for competition prizes and thought this might be a good opportunity to build relations with some new merchants too.
The site I’m looking for competition prizes for is: Gifts Guide UK - Presents & Gift Ideas
We run competitions for one month [...]

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Archive for the ‘I Really Should Shut Up Now’ Category

Visiting Stonehenge

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Yesterday I took a day out and decided to go on a road trip to Stonehenge and see what all the fuss was about. The myth and legend surrounding Stonehenge has always fascinated me somewhat and given they say the original Stonehenge site is dated 3100BC with the iconic stone monument erected around 2500BC, it [...]

London Marathon Sponsorship

Friday, February 5th, 2010

No, i’m not silly enough to dig out my running shoes and take on 26 1/2 gruelling miles of London’s streets along with a whole bunch of other like minded crazy people. That said, one of our own Miss Kelly Frew has decided that this is the year she will be taking on the challenge [...]

There Was No Snow In Newquay

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

About a week ago I was under the impression that everywhere in the UK had suffered dramatic snow falls, or at least that’s what the news was telling me. So as you do when trains are at their worst I decided to pack up my stuff for the week and head down to Newquay to [...]

This Is Worth Reading

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, [...]

My Take On The Royal Mail Strikes

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

So unless you’ve been living on a parallel universe with a great mail service, you can’t have helped but hear about the Royal Mail strikes that are threatening to bring Christmas as we know it to a stand still. Royal mail staff  voted overwhelmingly last week for nationwide action, escalating a dispute which has already [...]

Derren Brown - How To Be A Psychic Spy - Did You Get The Image Right?

Friday, September 25th, 2009

So following on from my recent coverage of Derren Browns new series, tonight in his programme “how to be a psychic spy” Derren tried to get the whole nation (or those of us who watch his programme at least) to guess an image that was drawn a week ago by a random person called Katie [...]

Did Derren Brown Stick You To Your Sofa?

Friday, September 18th, 2009

So tonight Derren Brown told me he was going to stick me to my sofa, not just me but the whole nation through their TV screens.
Success rate was apparently 50% in the studio, but despite me following the instructions and doing everything as asked, it didn’t work for me.
Did you watch it? And did Derren [...]

Derren Brown - Lottery Solution Revealed

Friday, September 11th, 2009

So following on from my last post I thought it might be fun to talk about what Derren is telling us right now live on channel 4, in relation to how he predicted the lottery results on Wednesday.
He’s opened the show and quickly talked about how he was fascinated reading about all the solutions people [...]

Derren Brown Lottery Prediction - How He Did It

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Last night on channel four I watched Derren Brown do the impossible and predict the national lottery results as they were being drawn live on BBC1. If you didn’t get to see it, I’ve found it on YouTube for you:

It’s a pretty impressive feat? I’m not so sure. Obviously Derren doesn’t posses psychic powers and [...]

Compare The Market, Aleksandr Isn’t Happy!

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

My name is Aleksandr, founder of comparethemeerkat.com.
Recently I searches the Googles for my website and I finds comparehtemaaarrrrket.com. Needings cheap car insurance I get ze quote for ze insurance and I buys! Zen this morning I receives an email from comparehtemaaarrrrket.com saying:
Aleksandr, you saved on home insurance, try us for car insurance too!
But waits! I’ve [...]