The Ooks Of Hazzard – Kids (MGMT Cover)
Loving this cover of MGMT’s Kids by The Ooks of Hazzard…ukelele-tastic….just saying [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgpsXURZFo4&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0]...
Light Up With Pride
Reading Needs Pride in it’s Lion A few weeks ago I had a friend coming to Reading and we decided to stay at The Forbury Hotel…but a review of that is not the content of this post, it is of the lack of prominence of the Maiwand Lion that...
Chuffin ‘Eck
It seems that railway stations are new experiential marketing space for home furnishings & DIY. There is a spooky coincidence between the new ad running on TV for Homebase, which was filmed at Carlisle station and Ikea who have furnished Parisian subways. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szo1VwqPdhY&hl=en_GB&fs=1&rel=0] I have to say I think...
Hunt For The Red Dress
Is the effectiveness of social media and mico-blogging a myth? Read below and make your own judgement. Hunt for the Red Dress If anyone out there is still debating the power and value of twitter, they should have been following Duncan Bannatyne (@DuncanBannatyne) and his quest this morning to...
What Type Of ‘Preneur’ Are You?
Why have I got a picture of The Red One from Ella’s Kitchen posted on here? The story is that I remember founder, Paul Lindley, coming into the Delicatessen I owned back in 2005 clutching two pouches of smoothies, one red, one yellow (those were the two products then)...
Fishy goings on
I was a naughty girl last night and had fish & chips on a school night after my boy had requested them. I went into a fish & chips shop in Caversham and asked for two haddock and chips: Chippie: “Sorry, no haddock, only cod” Me: “Ok, two cod...
Whizz on Wizz Air
I vowed a few years ago that never again would I venture on board a lo-cost airline and then this weekend I found myself boarding a Wizz Air plane destined for Zagreb from Lorraine Chases’ Luton airport. I haven’t had the pleasure of traversing the concourses of Luton airport...
How Not to Detox
We’ve all done it. Vowed not to drink again, eat so much and treat our bodies as temples. Here was my pitiful attempt!! Monday morning, day off! 07.00: Detox! Green tea: cups x 2. Got back ache, my kidneys 11.00: telephone call, ‘need to talk to you, meet you...
Is All That Glitters David Gold?
In November I was at the Business Start-Up Business Show at Olympia and had the opportunity to chat to David Gold, Chairman of Ann Summers and now the newly appointed joint Chairman of West Ham United Football Club, where he was appearing as a Keynote Speaker. He was very...
Is Giraffe all it’s cracked up to be?
Many of my fellow tweeters have been raving about Giraffe, so only thought it was worthy of a visit to find out for myself. Rainy and miserable, I arrived at around 1.30 on Saturday afternoon with my lucky lunch companion and fellow tweeter (FT). We were greeted amiably and...