We appear to have so much convenience in our lives, fast food, ready made dinners, and above all purchasing every thing via the Internet. How many times a week do we say "I'll have a look on the Internet"?
Have we become a lazy nation?, and are we ourselves to blame for the dying “High Street”?
We can
· Buy our groceries and have them delivered
· Buy clothes
· Book an Appointment
· Buy Insurance
· Book a holiday
This year many of us will be booking holidays and flights online, as it is much easier to sit in the comfort of your own home, being able to compare prices, read non bias reviews, and research where we want to go as well as where we want to fly from,usually being cheaper in price to.
We use comparison sites, which seems to be popular in this day and age,
so what will become of the high street travel agents , supermarkets etc, is everyone under threat?
A few years ago it was the small “village” shop that were threatened by the supermarket's now it seems everything is.
The Internet is a wonderful invention, but will high street shopping still be here in a few years time? It’s a wonder how we ever coped without it.
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- If you are taking your mum out for a meal or buying flowers this
Sunday 14 March , are you aware of some of the reasons why?
Here are some very interesting “Mother's Day” facts
Mothers day is also known as Mothering Sunday, or Refreshment Sunday or Mid-Lent Sunday,
Mothers day in the UK is held on the 4Th Sunday (which is the middle Sunday) of Lent. (The period of fasting before Easter
Members of the working classes were often given the weekend off in the middle part of lent to visit their families, which eventually became associated with the bringing of gifts home to their mothers, especially flowers or a fruitcake called a Simnel cake. A simnel cake is a fruit cake with Marzipan on top , usually with 12 balls on top to represent the 12 apostles who betrayed Christ.
Ingredients for Simnel cake
Ingredients
300g/10oz self raising flour
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice
110g/4oz butter or margarine
110g/4oz brown sugar
2 tablespoons of golden syrup
350g/12oz mixed dry fruit
2 eggs
approx. 100 ml milk to mix
700g Marzipan
2 tablespoons of icing sugar for decoration
Method:
Rub the margarine into the flour, Add all the dry ingredients i.e. sugar, spice and dried fruit. Stir well.
Add eggs and golden syrup
Add milk to form a soft mixture
Stir well and combine the rest of the ingredients
Grease a round 8 inch tin
Place half the mixture in the tin. Roll out one third of the marzipan.
Lay the marzipan on top of the mixture. Add the remaining mixture on top
Cook on gas Mark 3 `150 C 325 F for just over an hour
When Cooled for a short time turn the cake out onto a wire rack
Allow to cool thoroughly mix icing sugar and spread on the top of the fruit cake for the marzipan to stick.
Then with the remaining marzipan make up 12 balls and stick with icing sugar.
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Irritability within the office can cause a simple day’s work to become a chore and an effort.
According to a recent poll of office workers, many felt frustration at IT, irritating staff, useless printers, unproductive meetings, smelly co workers and office gossips one of the most annoying is an intolerable increase in the use of “office Jargon.”
Which may include any one of the following: Thinking outside the box
Lets touch Base
Blue-sky thinking
Blame storming (sitting down and working out whose fault something is)
Drill down to a more granular level (Look into something in more detail)
Lets not throw pies in the dark (we need a plan rather than a haphazard approach)
I’ve got that on my radar
Push the envelopes
Bring your A-game (Be ready to do something to best of ability)
Get all your ducks in a row
Go the extra yard!
Proactive
And probably one of the worst (but the best) Low-hanging fruit – (Targets or goals which are easily achievable but do not require a lot of effort.
Then we have the usual annoyances:
Crisp munchers
Loud coffee slurper’s
Annoying mobile ring tones
The bosses voice
Personal Phone calls
Keyboard tapping
Hold music on a telephone
Other frustrations are those who choose to chat on “Facebook” whilst pretending to be incredibly busy.
Some go to use the bathroom at a specific time of day, every day.
Are we right to feel so annoyed or have we all just lost patience?
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This week the Bafta( British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards took place at London's Royal Opera House. British actor Colin Firth winning best actor for " A Single Man" and British actress Carey Mulligan, best Actress for "An Education". The Oscar's is only twelve days away, and for many people, a social event of the Year. You may like to watch it because you like to see your favourite actor win an award, or to watch the celebrities walk down the red carpet, either loving their designer dress or asking yourself what were they thinking? Among the many nominations here is a short list of Feature films with two or more nominations: Film/Nominations"Avatar"9 "The Hurt Locker"9 "Inglourious Basterds"8 "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire"6 "Up in the Air"6 "Up"5 "District 9"4 "Nine"4 "Star Trek"4 "Crazy Heart"3 "An Education"3 "The Princess and the Frog"3 "The Young Victoria"3 "The Blind Side"2 "Fantastic Mr. Fox"2 "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"2 "Invictus"2 "The Last Station"2 "The Messenger"2 "A Serious Man"2 "Sherlock Holmes"2 "The White Ribbon"2 And for best travel insurance go to http://www.holidaysafe.co.uk/Source: www.oscar.go.com
Tuesday 17 was Pancake day, here are a few interesting facts:The Worlds largest pancake was cooked in Rochdale in 1994, it was 15 metres in diameter,and weighed three tonnes and was estimated to contain 2 million calories.!Pancake day is on a different date every Year depending on when Easter Sunday falls, it can be as early as 4 February and as late as 10 March
Pancake day is always the day before Ash Wednesday, Ash Wednesday is also the start of "Lent", Lent means to give up something and lasts 46 days (40 excluding Sundays) Ash Wednesday gets its name from the placing of ashes on your forehead ,as a sign of repentance.One Indulgence Christians wanted to give up for lent was rich foods, eggs, sugar and butter, so they would use all the ingredients up, hense where pancakes come from. Shrove Tueasday, the word shrove (Shrive) means to confess it was believed they would be forgiven.
The last day of lent is Eater Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday.
Here are a few ideas for could give up for lent:
1 Alcohol
2 Swearing
3 Meat
4 Impulse shopping
5 Junk Food
6 Facebook
7 Smoking
8 Gambling
9 Television
10 Over use of the Credit card
If you succeed and wish to treat your self to a holiday, never give up
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When applying for an insurance quote the type of holiday and the destination are usually how a quote is calculated. For some sporting activities standard cover is not enough. You may not think hot-air ballooning would require extra cover, but your travel insurance company could well disagree. If you are participating in any of the Hazardous activities that are shown directly below these may require an extra premium to be paid. American Football Football - Amateur Micro Lighting Skiing/snowboarding Ballooning - Hot Air Gliding Mountaineering up to 3,000m Sky Diving Biathlon Hand Gliding Parachuting Trekking up to 3000m Boxing Training Hockey Paragliding Bungee Jumping Jet Skiing Rugby (amateur game) Flying crew/pilot Martial Arts (Training Only) Scuba Diving to 30m For the best travel insurance quote and to buy travel insurance
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With the 6 Nations rugby kicking off this weekend just gone,
Here are a few interesting facts:
Rugby union has been governed by the International Rugby Board since its formation in 1886 and currently has a membership of 115 national unions. In 1995, the IRB removed restrictions on payments to players, making the game openly professional at the highest level for the first time.
The Rugby World Cup, first held in 1987, takes place every four years, with the winner of the tournament receiving the Webb Ellis Cup.
The Six Nations in Europe and the Tri Nations in the southern hemisphere are major international competitions held annually. Major domestic competitions include the Top 14 in France, the Guinness Premiership in England, the Currie Cup in South Africa, and the Air New Zealand Cup in New Zealand.
Other transnational competitions include the Magners League (which is essentially a domestic competition throughout the Celtic Nations), involving Irish, Scottish and Welsh teams; the Super 14, involving South African, Australian and New Zealand teams; and the Heineken Cup, involving the top European based teams of their respective domestic competitions.
RBS 6 Nations Fixtures & Results
Date Time Country Score Stadium
Sat 6th Feb 2010 10:30 Ireland 29 - 11 Italy Croke Park
Sat 6th Feb 2010 17:00 England 30 - 17 Wales Twickenham
Sun 7th Feb 2010 15:00 Scotland 9 - 18 France Murrayfield
Sat 13th Feb 2010 14:00 Wales v Scotland Millennium Stadium
Sat 13th Feb 2010 16:30 France v Ireland Stade de France
Sun 14th Feb 2010 14:30 Italy v England Stadio Flaminio
Fri 26th Feb 2010 20:00 Wales v France Millennium Stadium
Sat 27th Feb 2010 13:30 Italy v Scotland Stadio Flaminio
Sat 27th Feb 2010 16:00 England v Ireland Twickenham
Sat 13th Mar 2010 14:30 Ireland v Wales Croke Park
Sat 13th Mar 2010 17:00 Scotland v England Murrayfield
Sun 14th Mar 2010 14:30 France v Italy Stade de France
Sat 20th Mar 2010 14:30 Wales v Italy Millennium Stadium
Sat 20th Mar 2010 17:00 Ireland v Scotland Croke Park
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Source:http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/matchcentre/match-centre_fixtures-results.php and wikipedia.com
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