October 28, 2010
How Amazing is this?
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October 26, 2010
Christmas Tips
Shopping tips
1. Cash in your rewards
Save your supermarket savings stamps! Now that most supermarkets do more than just food; it really is worth filling up some cards with stamps through the year and saving loyalty points so that in November and December you can go on a spree with “free” money, and obviously get more of what you want/need!
2. Get cracking!
Buy your Christmas crackers just after Christmas when they are all reduced, and usually get a couple of really nice boxes of luxury ones dirt-cheap.Put them away with your Christmas decorations for use the following year. The same also works with tableware (papercloths, napkins etc).
3. Remember what you’ve bought!
If you buy presents through the year like I do, make sure you keep a list of what you’ve bought and who it is for. This saves buying a present for someone you’ve already bought for.
4. Get sprout and about!
Do your food shopping in the early hours of Christmas Eve morning. The place will be empty, the staff will be chasing each other with silly string, and it will be a dream of a shopping trip.
5. Cut costs the easy way
Save all your Christmas cards from the previous year, and cut up the cards to make instant gift tags! Simple.
6. Make a list
Avoid a stressful supermarket scrum by planning ahead. Make a list and try to buy non-perishable items on a normal shopping trip in advance. Things in tins or packets will happily keep in the cupboard. Making a list is the best shopping tip.
7. Sneaky shopper
Cook the Christmas cake in November and buy most of the non-perishable food, chocolates, tape, cards and paper throughout the year. If you don’t see most of the family until after Christmas shop in the Boxing Day sales and nobody knows!
8. Military operation
If you hate Christmas shopping treat it like a military operation! Compile a gift list noting which shops to get them in, and even plan your route to ensure that the heaviest items are bought towards the end of the ‘spree’, to avoid carrying stuff around unnecessarily! Then take yourself off for a celebratory glass of champagne – perfect!
9. Festive brainstorm
Brainstorm all the Yuletide jobs you need to do, then put them on your noticeboard. Mark them off as you do them, or add if required. Have a countdown with final dates too, and always give yourself an extra day to get everything done.
10. Shop online
Buy your children’s Christmas presents online. It is hard to shop with children in tow. By shopping online there’s no way children can see their presents!
11. Homemade advent calendar treats
Get your children involved with the Christmas experience by digging out all the child-friendly utensils such as small wooden spoons and Christmas biscuit-cutters. Spend an afternoon making little edible goodies to go into the advent calendar. They will love it and you will save money!
12. Collect boxes
All year save interesting, useful-shaped and plain but beautiful boxes to use for present wrapping. You will never have to buy expensive Christmas boxes.
13. Early bird
Shop for the small stocking fillers ahead of time – even as early as the January sales. Just remember to stick them away in dark cupboard so the kids can’t find them!
14. Stock up
Always buy plenty of indigestion tablets and cold remedy – and a few small extra presents for the people you forget! And for the perfect Christmas, always have a smile at the ready!
15. Christmas Card tip
Why not go against tradition this year and send Christmas eCards instead of physical cards? At the end of the day, they only go in the bin, and you will save loads of money and the environment – bonus! Visit www.eCards.co.uk and try it out today!
16. Freezing – a cook’s best-friend
Prepare and freeze lots of comfort food like stews and soups that can just be defrosted and heated up in the microwave in the run-up to Christmas. These are especially good to eat after a late night shopping trip when you don’t want to come home and cook.
17. Book a day-off
Save a day’s holiday for December and use it to finish off Christmas shopping and treat yourself to a lie-in or haircut. The streets are much emptier in the week than on the weekend. Take off Christmas Eve to get in the mood.
18. Stock up with power
Buy a stack of batteries – especially if you have children. There’s nothing worse than not being able to get a new toy going because you forgot the batteries!
19. Use cook’s cheats
Cook as much as possible in advance – and don’t be afraid to use convenience foods.
20. Buy wine
Buy plenty of wine! The only reliable way of being prepared for Christmas is to have large quantities of wine to hand!
October 8, 2010
Cheryl Coles Birthday present to Simon Cowell: 3 musicdal dwarfs.
Happy Simon
Cheryl Cole presented 3 singing drwafs to simon Cowell for his Birthday.
The three-piece were wearing grey T-shirts with the words ‘Happy Birthday, Love Cheryl’. To Simons delight, they greeted the X Factor super star as he arrived for studio rehearsals in London.
The trio played a violin, drum and accordion as they sang “Happy Birthday” to the blushing Birthday boy.
It turned out that Simon was so impressed with them, he invited the trio to spend the day with him.
Cheryl had booked dwarf actor Phil Holden and tiny pals Ray Griffiths and Darren Horan the night before. Phil, who is 4ft 6ins, said: “Simon saw us and asked, ‘Are you for me?’ before bursting out laughing. He thought it was the best present he’d ever had.”
I think Cheryl wanted to annoy Simon, but it backfired as he absolutely loved the dwarfs. Maybe she should have stuck to a Birthday eCard instead – it would have been cheaper!
October 5, 2010
I would not want this for my Birthday!
This lucky guy got a huge wave for his birthday! I bet he would have preferred a Birthday eCard.
October 4, 2010
Worlds Oldest Twins
Amazing ladies!
The title of the oldest twins in the world has gone to sisters Ena Pugh and Lily Millward. Happy 100th Birthday x 2!
Farmer’s daughters Ena Pugh and Lily Millward were born in 1910 before the outbreak of World War 1 when Queen Victoria’s son Edward VII was king.
The pair still live in the own houses, still meet up for weekly shopping sessions and chat on the telephone virtually every night.
The twins used to work on the farm with each other. They claim that life has been good to them, and taht they have been blessed with good health.
Even at 100 years of age, the pair live independendently, and look foward to Birthday Parties!
The family were told the sisters have beaten odds of more than 700 million to one in becoming centenarians together.
The sisters live just a dozen miles away from each other in the fresh air of the Welsh countryside – Ena at Erwood, near Builth Wells, and Lily still in her home village of Garthbrengy, near Brecon.
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October 1, 2010
Halloween!
Spooky
Many of us celebrate Halloween – but how many of us know where it originates from?
Halloween was originally a Pagan Holy day called “All Hallows Eve.” It was one of four, and the most powerful, holy days throughout the year when spirits could walk the earth and communicate with the living.
Satanists have adopted Halloween as one of their three main seasonal days of celebration. The others are Wallopings Noach on the 1st May and the Satanist’s birthday.
How do you celebrate Halloween?
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