Author Archives: charlie
A whole new meaning for chip and pin
If you spend hours every week fumbling around in your wallet for the right bits of plastic – this might be of interest to you.
Read more...The slow cooking revival
There’s been something of a shift in cooking trends of late.
Read more...The Jump
This is being written having just watched the first episode of the new series of The Jump on Channel 4 #TheJump2015. On paper it’s a great concept, with celebs battling it out at different winter sports, but it’s definitely dividing viewers opinions as to whether they love or loathe it. Either way it’s hard to deny that once you start watching this celebrity sports show, it’s strangely addictive.
Read more...Celebrating living natural history
There has been a national outcry over news that Dippy, the diplodocus skeleton which has been in the entrance hall at the Natural History Museum in London, is to be usurped by a blue whale.
Read more...Get set to join the TRX trend
Despite the concept having been developed by Navy Seals back in the 1800s, TRX has recently burst into the fashionable world of fitness. Chances are you have come across people talking about it, and working out when they’re going to get their next fix. But what is TRX?
Read more...Miracle moggy comes back from the grave
One poor cat has taken the nine lives theory to the limit after seemingly coming back from the dead – after being buried. Poor pet moggy Bart was run over by a car, found battered and lifeless at the side of the road and buried in a shallow grave. But five days later the phenomenal feline was seen wandering around near his home in Tampa Bay, Florida.
Read more...An eggs-fact science
How do you like your eggs in the morning?
Read more...A sad time for the northern white rhinos
There are now only five northern white rhinos left on the planet – with very small hope of the species surviving.
Read more...Wine, early mornings, porridge and no men!
Don’t you just love all those expert studies that tell us what is good for our health and what is bad, what will make us live longer and what won’t?
Read more...Somebody hand me my sunglasses…
Have you been feeling a bit down in the dumps this week?
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