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Sedo released their weekly sales report and upgift.com was the top sale at $18,000.

Normally after a break from work, I'm eager to get back to routine. You all know I love my kids, heck, I wouldn't have started this blog but they're at the age where they're so full on. They seem to tag team and then unite run rings around me. My husband and I get parent burnout rather quickly!! Yet this half term has been so different.

We've just had so much fun and dare I say it, it was pretty stress-free! It ...

White Oak Akashi Blended Whisky is another newish whisky added to the American releases of Japanese whisky. Originally a sake distillery, White Oak distillery has been around since 1919 and is a whisky that’s been getting some attention lately, though not all of it positive.

A decorated Marine fighter pilot (Robert Duvall) commands his family and his oldest son (Michael O'Keefe) in particular with the same fierceness and determination he does his own troops as they adjust to life following their latest move to a Southern military town. Lewis John Carlino trims the fat of Pat Conroy's bloated and overwritten autobiographical novel and winds up with a too sanitized but nonetheless likable look at a dysfunctional father/son relationship. Duvall's ardent and comical role... Читать дальше...

When driving home from Greater London at the weekend, after a fun filled family day out, a news alert pinged up on my phone.

"Breaking News: Van drives into pedestrians on London Bridge"

And so began the pattern that is becoming ever more familiar of late.

Worry, Hope that maybe this is just a freak accident, Hushed discussions with my partner ..."Maybe someone has just fallen asleep at ...

Trivia will be happening at Professor Thom's on Wednesday night, June 7th at 8:30 PM, with the Special category "Q-Tip Trivia." I will ask you seven multiple choice general knowledge questions, each with four choices for the answer. It can be 1, 2, 3 all 4, or none correct. You get a point for each correct answer (and 1 point if the answer is none). However, you have to be very careful, as if you give an incorrect answer (even if you put down any correct answers for that question) you automatically get no points for that question. Читать дальше...

I never thought I'd have so much in my LUSH stash that I would feel compelled to spread the love and give some away to friends and family, but recently that's exactly the position I've found myself in. Having a mate ...

Sometimes blood shed at a crime scene is easily visible but at other times less so. Maybe it's a very small amount, or perhaps soaked into a patterned carpet, or secreted in the gaps between tiles and baseboards. Perhaps the killer has cleaned up the crime scene, thinking that if the blood is not visible, it's not findable. Maybe he even washed the blood off is hands and watched it circle down the drain. Gone ...

Dinero left a comment on Killer Arguments Against LVT, Not (415):

The land under gardens has a lower land value than the land under houses as it does not have planning permission and is to small to build a house on.

Me: Exactly. Two similar houses on the same street with different sized back gardens hardly differ in value.

Dinero: So there is an issue with existing houses where a tax on the land that is not big enough for housing and does not have planning permission for housing is ...

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MONUMENT

The Monument to the Great Fire of London, more commonly known simply as the Monument, is a Doric column in the City of London, near the northern end of London Bridge, that commemorates the Great Fire of London.
It stands at the junction of Monument Street and Fish Street Hill, 202 ft (62 m) tall and 202 ft (62 m) from the spot in Pudding Lane where the Great Fire started on 2 ...

Ralph's Indie Show Replay

As played on Radio KC

Sunday 28h May 2017 from 5-7pm GMT

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The erosion of privacy and growth of censorship on the internet increasingly threaten freedom of expression in the digital age.

Before Emerson, fitting in my daily workout was a huge priority.  I obviously had a lot of other things that I cared about and prioritized, but working out and running was top of the list. Now, there are a lot of other things that take precedence which has been a hard thing for me to come to terms with, but also just a fact of life. I am working hard to fit in my workouts but sometimes that extra half hour in bed or moment on the couch is too good to pass up!

Can a ketogenic diet be helpful in cancer treatment? There are many reasons to believe this, e.g. that nearly all cancer cells burn lots of sugar, and grow more under the influence of high insulin levels. You could say that most cancer cells are addicted to carbs, for optimal growth.

The turn of materials, Eames ...

ZTE backed Nubia has launched its latest smartphone the Nubia Z17 Mini in India today. The Z17 Mini was first launched in China in the April and is the success to the Z11 mini that was launched last year. The Z17 Mini is company’s first smartphone with dual rear cameras.

My favorite memories as a child are those of Mondays. Six hours at school would fly by in a haze of daisy-chain making, pretending to be a Spice Girl in the playground, reading Biff & Chip books in the morning and logging the pages in my reading record, dreaming and making up odd craft creations to present to Mum. And then, we’d drive the twenty minutes home and Dad would be there!! We could go and feed the ducks, play football in the garden, read another Biff & Chip book, run riot underneath his pool table! Читать дальше...

Sometimes I really am a glutton for punishment when it comes to new chocolate bar flavours. I always want to try new things, even if they just sound wrong. That's what happened with this new bar that popped up in Marks and Spencer recently, a single origin Peru dark chocolate with 52% cocoa solids, containing pink peppercorns and flavoured with grapefruit oil. Neither of those two ingredients are ones I particularly like, but ...

Taken in April of 2017 at Ward’s Lake in Shillong

10 years ago (and 1 day as I forgot to post this yesterday!) some weird Danish time-traveler starting blogging right here and the internet has not been the same since!

A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

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This is the first book of the Sherlock Holmes canon, and is also the first Holmes novel (most of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories are short stories published in collections.) The book was first published in 1887.

There are actually two stories told in the novel. The first part of the novel describes ...

What makes a Chimney a Chimney? There are many kinds of Chimney from manor homes to industrial facilities that could be classed as tall, but these ten you are about to see are mostly part of a thermal vent that is often attached to coal-fired power stations. While that might sound a little boring it … Continue reading The Top 10 Tallest Chimneys in the World

It’s all about Jesus. Well, that’s an overstatement, even in context. One of the amazing things to me about books addressing the Bible in film is just how often Jesus movies come up. If it’s not Jesus movies, it’s movies that have a “Christ figure” or some such Christian trope. Don’t get me wrong—I have no issues with Jesus. It’s just that the Bible and film have so much more in common than this. David Shepherd’s edited collection, Images of the Word: Hollywood’s Bible and Beyond, has some insightful... Читать дальше...