Life, the in's and out's of

My Life, Your Life, Our Life

Houseware comes in all shapes and sizes but one of the most popular is the common old mug. We all have our favourite and get a little narky is someone else uses it. The mug has been around since the stone age and the first coffee mugs were made out of wood. Britain actually banned coffee in 1748 and everything associated with it, which included the mug, this led to a shortage of mugs and a black market in them.

With more and more people spending a couple of quid on the lottery in the desperate hope of getting out of financial hardship, the payouts are getting bigger and bigger. A very lucky couple have just won £56 million pounds on the euro lottery and fair play to them, I hope it does bring long term happiness to them. The question is, should a single couple win this amount of money. Surely it would be better to have 56 draws, thus creating 56 millionaires and 56 very happy people.

After months of trying to get pregnant and finally succeeding, the next big issue is baby names. Do you stick with good old traditional Christian names or do you go all modern. It can be one of the hardest things to do and cause a few arguments between you and your partner. Some of the things you need to consider when choosing your baby names are how they can be shortened and if you decide on a middle name you need to consider what the initials would be as you don’t want Geoffrey Ian Thompson (G.I.T) as they would get hammered at school.

It would seem that certain banks are still profiteering during these hard times when everyone else is struggling and tightening their belts, including the government.  Barclays have just announced that their profits have nearly doubled to £11.6bn and paying out average bonuses of £95.000. But don’t worry just to make us all feel better chief executive John Varley and president Bob Diamond have both declined their bonuses for a second year, however the bank are still paying out a staggering £1.5bn in bonuses, plus a further £1.2bn in long-term bonuses, to be paid over three years.

Between 1939 and 1945 around *383,667 UK and crown military personal died during the second would war, protecting this country, its people and preserving the British way of life.  Each year we commemorate the fallen souls of both world war I and II and remember some of the atrocities, we all have members in our family tree’s who have fought and died in the conflicts. Yet despite all this why is it that the British government is so intent on giving away our country and seeing our cultural disappear. Do politicians hate our country, it would seem so. Today’s politicians are nothing but greedy wasters trying to line their own pockets and get a good deal when they leave politics. They have no interest in our country or its British people and are happy to see our culture and way of life disappear forever. We don’t need to be part of Europe for anything other than trade and it is not in the best interest of the UK to join the Euro or any European constitutions or tax harmonisation.

If you look in any kitchen today either professional or domestic you will all most certainly see a microwave. They have become a major piece of catering equipment and it all came about in 1946 when Dr. Percy Spencer was testing the magnetron. The magnetron is a vacuum tube and whilst testing Dr. Percy noticed that the candy bar in his pocket had melted, he then decided to try another experiment using popcorn kernels, and to his surprise they started popping.

After 15 years and some 235 episodes covering 10 series channel 4 and E4 have decided to stop showing friends. The TV show, which made famous it’s starts Courtney Cox, Matthew Perry, Jenifer Aniston,  David Schwimmer and Matt le Blanc had 8.6 million views watching the last series and has always been a ratings hit for the TV channel. The station has agreed to end its rights to the series with the programmes distributors Warner Bros, despite 400,000 people still watching repeats on E4.

If it’s storage space you need in the Ipswich area then your best and cheapest (unless you have an Aunt with a big house) solution is storage Ipswich. In today’s busy modern world, we want everything and never have enough space for it. Self storage is one of the simplest and safest methods available. It works by you turning up in your car or van with your storage items, you are allocated a room, which is clean, dry and secure. You unload your stuff and lock the room.

Photo books are one of the newest things on the market and very popular. They are a great way to share your photos. Most of us these days have a digital camera but how many of us actually print the photos off. I my-self have a hard drive full of photos that most people have never seen and would be unlikely to see.

One of the best things about self catering holidays are that it gives you so much freedom and the ability to come and go as you please. With this type of holiday you are not restricted to having to be back at your hotel at a certain time for your dinner or having to get up at daft o’clock to get your breakfast. I remember a holiday I went on in Malta and they served breakfast 6AM – 08:30AM, I was under the impression that I was on holiday and a holiday is about relaxing and chilling out. As you can imagine we did not bother with breakfast and ended up paying extra for it at another restaurant, which was a waste of money as I had already paid for the breakfasts.