Archive for July, 2008

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Now this is how you look after your shoes!

Imagine you own the most expensive pair of shoes in the world, then imagine they’re so beautiful you don’t want anyone to get their dirty mitts on them without paying first, now imagine deadly Egyptian cobras guarding them!
This is what Rene Caovilla did when he unveiled his $120, 000 (thats about £60, 000) ruby, sapphire [...]

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Dame Anita Roddick

Founder of The Body Shop and environmental entrepreneur Anita Roddick died yesterday evening after suffering a major brain haemorrhage, aged 64. Two years ago she found out she was carrying the Hepatitis C virus through a blood transfusion she received, but it has not been the cause of her death.

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Leeds Fest 2007

I think i can safely say that I’ve recovered from the 4 day, alcohol filled, musically virtuosic event that is the Carling Leeds Festival, albeit with peeling shoulders and a fridge still full of Carling lager. I don’t quite know how to document the whole weekend without scaring my Mother witless about the blatant drug [...]

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A very strange robbery…

HANDS UP OR I’LL…vibrate? I’m not sure whether this bloke uttered those words but nevertheless he’s just been jailed for holding up a bookmaker’s in Leicester with, would you believe it, his girlfriend’s vibrator..

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Fashion CAN Save Your Life

Flip flops have been the staple in the fashion diet this summer, well they have been when it’s not been raining!, and I’ve appreciated the times when i can wear them.

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Introducing…the Boyfriend Pillow!

Christmas is a few months away yet but those keraaazy Japanese folk have done it again and invented the perfect present specifically for your single female friends. It comes in pillow form, but shaped into the loving arm of a boyfriend! Ahh how sweet, fake arms for your lonely gal pals..

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Smoothie

Man i love smoothies, and i reckon i had my fair share of them at the Innocent Village Fete in Regents Park this weekend.
The people at Innocent had pretty much hired out an entire corner of the park and decorated it with village fete style bunting and various activities. I was fed up of being [...]

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I was a VIP

Yes i was! and a very good one at that.. On the 2nd August Simon and i had a date with Somerset House, to sip free pimms and eat free mini burger canapes before heading to the courtyard to lie on blankets with 2000 others and watch the UK Premiere of ‘Knocked Up’.
We got special [...]

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boot-y

Aren’t car boots so much fun? Well no, not really. I found this out yesterday when my cousin and i set off to Baytree to try and sell all of our crap!
The sale was due to open at 12pm so we headed off in the early hours (well actually 10am but come on, I’m a [...]

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You Tosser!

Last week i discovered that even though i have two left hands, if that is even possible, i can flip pancakes! I had been craving the sugary goodness of chocolate and litres of Sprite for a week, surprisingly not being able to satisfy my addiction in London, so Simon helped me to indulge in an [...]