If you are happily married and live in Britain then you could be in the minority. Recent statistics from The Office of National Statistics (ONS) have found that nearly half of all British marriages end in divorce. In fact 45% of all marriages end in divorce before a couple’s 50th anniversary and half of these…
Month: March 2008
Beer Beer and More Beer
We met up with some friends last night for a beer tasting evening at Brouge at The Old Goat in Fulwell near Twickenham. It was certainly a slightly different evening. The staff at the pub started by telling us a little bit about some of the beers and we then got to sample some. Apparently…
Pay Your Bills Online and Save Trees
I read this interesting article that suggests you can make quite a difference to the environment just by paying your bills online. The article is based upon a study done in the US and claims that if just one household stopped receiving paper statements and instead paid their bills online it would save 24 square…
Millionaire Who Works at McDonalds
Personally if I won the lottery the first thing I would do is give up work, or at least pay people to run my businesses for me. One man who won the lottery, however, missed his job at McDonalds’s so much that despite quitting, he asked to go back. Despite the fact that he is…
Pregnant Man?
This article is rather strange. It is about what could be the world’s first pregnant man. Thomas Beatie was born a woman and has had partial sex change surgery. He is legally classified as a man, having had his breasts removed and undergone testosterone treatment. However he has been able to conceive because he has…
Too Many Chickens
This rather sleepy looking fox was found by Terri Strick when she opened her chicken coop to feed her chickens. When she had last opened the chicken coop it contained, chickens, however the fox managed to crawl inside and after consuming all the birds settled down for a well earned nap amongst the remaining feathers.
Are HIPs a Waste of Time?
There are many expenses associated with selling a home but one fairly new cost is the home information pack or HIPs. HIPs have been promoted by the Government as a way to provide key information to buyers and also speed up the purchase of a property. However a recent report from Which? has found that…
More TV Adverts
New Ofcom proposals could mean that we will soon have more frequent commercial breaks on TV. Currently ITV1, Channel 4 and Five are allowed to show an average of seven minutes of advertising an hour. Advertising is also restricted to one period per half hour programme and two per hour long programme. Under the new…
Solar Powered Clothes
This article suggests that solar powered clothing could be coming to the shops soon. Fujitsu Siemens are working on incorporating flexible solar cells into items of clothing and say the device could only take a year to perfect. The solar cells would work by converting light into energy which would then be used to power…
Woman Tries to Rob Bank with a Stink Bomb
Having used a few stink bombs before I know how unpleasant they can be. Saying that, they still wouldn’t be my number one weapon of choice if I wanted to rob a bank. A lady in Austria, felt differently. On entering a bank, she took out a box which she said contained a deadly explosive….