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I've been using Quidco for about 6 months now and have earned over £30 just from buying the stuff I would have bought anyway. The only thing you have to do is allow Quidco to take the first £5 if your earnings in each year. The rest is yours via PayPal. Amazon.co.uk isn't on there, but play.com and hundreds of others are. Amazon suck anyway ( Read more... )

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In Shaolin Kung Fu class yesterday we did some training with some kind of sparring stick. It's only a simple item: solid wood, about 2 foot long and as thick as a broom handle. Everyone had one except myself. They even had foam-covered equivalents that I borrowed. Since I'll be using these going forward, I thought I'd get myself one. Surely it ( Read more... )

Last night I finished my 5th week of learning Hsing Yi (aka xingyiquan) and Pa Kua (aka bagua). There's only 3 of us who are starters that actually take both classes. The Hsing Yi class has 6 of us who are new, and Pa Kua has about 8 (which is appropriate if you know about Pa Kua). I love learning both, which means I'll be continuing it. The ( Read more... )

I received my Viva! membership pack yesterday, and in it was a video featuring Joanna Lumley, Paul McCartney, Crissie Hynde and Jerome Flynn. It was about how animals are treating in factory farming here in the UK. It features some very disturbing images that I've seen time and time again. I watched this video 3 times before I decided to get my ( Read more... )

I've written to my MP regarding today's news that us Earthlings are all pretty much doomed.

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Glastonbury was most enjoyable. It was baking hot, soaking wet, extremely muddy, very crowded and huge. It was inspiring to listen to the speeches in the Left Field tent by the likes of Billy Bragg and Tony Benn. There was also a man who came all the way from Venezuela to highlight the abuse of the trade in their country. Their banana producers ( Read more... )

WinUAE version 1 has finally been released! Check it out at winuae.net

Did anyone watch Storyville on BBC 2 tonight, entitled McLibel, about the 2 people brought to court by McDonalds, only to win and expose McDonalds even more as a result? The website mentioned on the site was www.mcspotlight.org in case you're interested, and if you want to buy that documentary on DVD, just go to www.spannerfilms.net/shop to get ( Read more... )