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What’s So Great About Angkor Wat?
Travel websites, magazines, brochures and television shows are often preaching to us about the latest ‘must-see’ destination or the ‘101 places to see before you die’. But are these reviews simply funded by the relevant destination’s tourist board or are we really getting a true overview?
Let’s look, for example, at the increasingly popular tourist destination […]
You Know What Really Grinds My Gears… About Office Work
As a homage to Family Guy’s Peter Griffin, this article takes a look at five reasons why working in an office environment can has a detrimental affect to employees sanity.
For anyone who has experience of working in an office for prolonged periods of time, many of the issues detailed will seem common. In fact, […]
You Know What Really Grinds My Gears… About Christmas
Fans of hit animation Family Guy will be familiar with Peter’s news-time regular ‘You Know What Really Grinds My Gears?’
Inspired by this hilarious diatribe on pet hates, and with the festive season well and truly upon us, I felt it necessary to share details of what really grinds my gears about Christmas. Don’t get […]
Bargains and Battles: A Short History of the Department Store
The January sales are a winter institution in Britain, like fireworks in November and turkey at Christmas. Barely has the wrapping paper hit the floor when we’re tramping off to the high street again demanding more stuff for less cash.
Shopping for recreation and bagging a bargain can be traced back to the Victorian era and […]
Who Would Win: A Cheetah Or Gazelle?
From a young age we all learn that the cheetah is one of Earth’s speediest land mammals, but if you have ever spent time in pursuit of a gazelle, you will know that they too have the ability to easily show you a clean pair of heels. As such, I have been plagued for some […]
Is There A Specific Ocean?
Without doubt, one of the biggest gripes I have is the pronunciation of the word ’specific’ as ‘Pacific’. Geography may not be my strong point, but I’m pretty certain there is no Specific Ocean, so why the confusion when asking somebody to do something in a precise and clearly identified manner?
Having worked as a professional […]
The Mamma Mia! Phenomenon
The critics hate it, the music is 30 years old, it’s full of embarrassing middle-aged people cavorting about, it’s painfully uncool. And it’s the highest grossing British film of all time at the UK box office. What the Benny and Bjorn is going on?
Over the summer, and continuing into the chilly, credit crunched autumn, thousands […]
Top Five Bands Beginning With H
‘Music makes the world go round, the world go round, the world go round. Music makes the world go round, all day long’. Ne’er a true word spoke than this timeless nursery rhyme. But what music is responsible for making the world go around?
This article takes a look at just five bands that have produced […]
Top Five Bands Beginning With G
It is often said that ‘music has the charms to soothe a savage beast’, and certainly there are a great number of musical greats to please the masses. Yet for many, the need to uncover an hitherto unheard of artist is something that excites and inspires.
In an effort to aid those looking for something […]
Family Things To Do in London this Autumn and Winter
As it gets chillier and the days get shorter, those of us with young families will want to plan some exciting escapes from the house. Happily, the capital is brimming with events and activities to warm up those cockles and entertain the most objectionable child. Many of these events are free too.
At the beginning of […]
