Miscellaneous

It truly is frightening how fast time goes. One minute you are wishing away a working week and within what appears to be a blink of an eye you are ...

A little over 18 months ago while watching “The Biggest Loser” – yes I did say “The Biggest Loser”!, I decided I had to do something about my weight. Despite ...

Disney/ Pixar’s ‘Toy Story 3′ £21.2 million opening at the UK Box office surpassed its closest rival by close to 30%. The final movie in the amazing ‘Toy Story’ franchise ...

Photograph taken by David Breashears of the Rongbuk Glacier taken from the same place as Mallory's 1921 photograph Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES Global warming is now having an effect ...

Peter Sutcliffe aka Peter Coonan aka The Yorkshire Ripper will never be released from prison Mr Justice Mitting declared this morning at the Royal Courts of Justice. It won’t come as ...

Is F1 missing a beat ? The British Grand Prix last Sunday was, apart from an incident strewn first couple of corners,  lacking of any real drama and a straight forward ...

SOUTH-WEST Aboriginal identity Len Clarke has written to Prime Minister Julia Gillard urging her to make a fresh approach to Indonesia to send convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby ...

Following the furore surrounding Groupola’s marketing strategy last week (2nd July) when they supposedly made 200 sim free iphone 4′s available for £99, I received an email from the company ...

Ok so not the greatest pictures in the world, you can’t see anyone waving to you but I’m sure I saw a Russian Bic Mac and a Vodka chaser floating ...

It has been an interesting Saturday today, after dismantaling an 8 by 6 greenhouse for the allotment I sat through two games of football, the first saw Germany make Argentina ...

When the Lanes were being built in the late 18th century, Brighthelmston had already put its fishing village past behind it and had achieved a reputation as a health resort. ...

Like thousands of other twitter users, I waited with great anticipation this morning for the “secret” email to come through from @groupola announcing when the unbeatable  SIM-free iPhone 4s for ...

It is at the stationery store, site and catalogue of things necessary to writing, that we are introduced into the space of signs; it is in the stationery store that ...

Among Nemo's many talents and endearing idiosyncrasies (the talent of submerging and resurfacing with gracious misanthropy; the penchant for ink and fine writing instruments and for distinctive implements of personal ...

After 11 months on numerous Allotment lists I received a phone call late Friday night informing me that I had reached the top of the waiting list at a local ...

Continuing with the Post a Stub theme, Palimpsest is hosting Alissa's wonderful drawing of pencil stubs. Alissa writes: This is a drawing of my graphite and watercolour pencil stubs. They are a ...

After a lot of soul searching, procrastinating and wondering if I could justify the expense I finally made the decision to buy an ipad. Once I had made that decision, ...

I do not know what to think about the Stabilo pointVisco fine 0.5, blue. The wise Pen Addict has already pointed out that "fine" it is not. The ink does ...

 Licking the Pencil It’s not a stub, so this can’t be a stub story. The pencil still shows the entire name, and I’m being frugal with it. The Sanford ...

Pencil Face was created by the Dandy Dwarves, a collective of the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) filmmakers and video artists. A comment on the language and the written ...