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This article is interesting, it suggests that the average commuter burns more than 300 calories on their daily commute to work. On average people spend 57 minutes a day travelling including 20 minutes standing up, climbing 32 steps and walking for 23 minutes. That’s as much as 30 minutes exercise a day on a treadmill.

This is an interesting idea. Called Photo in Canvas the website www.photoincanvas.co.uk allows you to do just that. Basically they will take your photo and produce a good quality finished photo print with a canvas background and a pine frame. The idea is to turn a favourite photograph into something that can be displayed as…

This is interesting its a car park that parks the car for you. Users of the car park are issued with an individual key fob which is unique to the user. They swipe this when putting the car in the car park. A lift then takes the car away turns it around so it will…

You know cats are friends when they have the whole garden to sit in and they choose to do this.

A Labrador called Bracken is lucky to be alive after he swallowed a football. The football which measured 12cm became lodged next to the dogs heart and it was only when the  dog developed a cough that he was given an x-ray to determine what was wrong. The ball was successfully removed after an operation…

I was surprised and rather shocked to come across this article about a seven year old boy that wrecked the family car after going for a joy ride. The child had sneaked out in the night for a ride in his mothers car. He managed to roll the car onto its roof narrowly missing several…

This is the tallest Lego tower ever made. It was built to celebrate Lego’s 50th anniversary. Standing nearly 100ft tall, it was built by visitors to Legoland Windsor and took four days to complete. The previous record for a Lego tower was set in Toronto last year with a tower that measured 96ft high.

It never fails to amaze me how far the influence of the English Premier League has spread. I thought that several thousands of miles from home I might be able to escape Chelsea supporters but it appears they are everywhere. The only consolation is that I could remind them that Spurs beat them in the…

This is an interesting idea, a mug that stirs the liquid inside it without a spoon. It has a ceramic ball on the bottom of the mug. When you swirl the cup the ball turns and stirs the liquid inside. The cup is called Ceramic For Mix and its inventors who have so far made…

I found this recipe the other day for beer battered cod and thought I would try it out. Its quite an easy recipe but I found it had really good results. Basically we prepared the batter by mixing the flour and beer as described in the full recipe (I used Abbot Ale) and then folding…