Posted by: slync81 on: 16 January, 2009
Having a nose piercing seems like such a simple thing. It’s almost as popular as having your ears done, but if you have fat ears, it’s much more easier to work around that than having a fat nose, like me.
My troubles began when I went to a cheap jewellers to to get my nose pierced [...]
Posted by: slync81 on: 14 October, 2008
I went on holiday to Calella in Spain this year and had to blog it because it is truly a beautiful village.
It is an hour away from Barcelona city and set along the coast, so it has very easy access to the beach. There are LOADS of hotels, which I am surprised about because I’d never even heard of [...]
Posted by: slync81 on: 6 October, 2008
I have just discovered from a colleague that if you use a debit or credit card to purchase something in Pret a Manger, and the amount totals under £15, you do not have to provide a pin number OR sign for the purchase. They simply swipe your card and that’s it.
Now excuse me if I am [...]
Posted by: slync81 on: 23 July, 2008
A three-day strike that may hit holidaymakers needing swift passports is starting.
Nearly 3,000 passport staff will leave their posts in a row over pay and the Government’s office closure programme. The strike will hit the UK’s seven regional passport offices and 68 interview offices, the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) said.
The stoppage – which [...]
Posted by: slync81 on: 19 July, 2008
… Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and Australian soaps such as Home and Away were picked out for having no virtually no ethnic minority characters.
Viewers cited Asian corner shop owner Dev in Coronation Street and black single mother Denise, who had two children by two different fathers in EastEnders, as examples of stereotyping and tokenism in soaps.
Ethnic minority [...]
Posted by: slync81 on: 15 July, 2008
It will be interesting to see how the new Youth Crime Action Plan will effect the current hysteria about knife and youth crime in London at the moment. Not that the worry is unfounded - knife crime is an obvious problem that needs to be dealt with – but I think the media is to blame for [...]
Posted by: slync81 on: 15 July, 2008
The latest i-phone came out this last week and, as usual, the i-phone mega-fans and gadget maniacs surfaced to queue for hours to be the first the get their hands on one.
Now, while I love gadgets, I cannot understand how people justify queuing for days, sometimes in the rain or freezing temperatures to be the first [...]
Posted by: slync81 on: 3 July, 2008
I often wonder what American choreographers and dancers think when they come to the UK to work with dancers here. What do they think of the quality of dancers they work with in their masterclasses and workshops? And how to we compare with other countries they may visit?
I tend to assume they will think that [...]
Posted by: slync81 on: 3 July, 2008
An old Irish man approached me on the tube today, asking me if I know what I was doing on the date of his paper.
Reluctantly I pulled out my earphones and glanced at the yellowing paper in his hand. Underneath the title ‘The News Of The World’ read:
LONDON, SUNDAY OCTOBER 1, 1843 PRICE: THREEPENCE
When [...]
Posted by: slync81 on: 2 July, 2008
People can often see and understand neglect. They know what it is, especially when it comes to children. But what about ‘overprotection’. It sound petty but it can be just as damaging as neglect and it is practically undetectable on the surface.
There is a mother at work who almost makes me sick by her behaviour. [...]
