Hakuna Matata at Tan Hill Inn - An Escape

Earlier on in January I travelled up to North Yorkshire to stay at the highest pub in England, Tan Hill Inn.
I didn't know much about what was happening on this weekend starting Friday 9th January and the main reason I went was to celebrate a good friends birthday and …

A Reminder to Live

Sometimes we can get inspiration from unusual places and even tragedies. It can often take a strong and emotional experience to truly highlight what is important.
A death, be it someone close or an acquaintance, has always helped me reflect on how I am living my life …

A New Year Ahead

So here we are on New Years Eve again. This time of year is traditionally a time for reflection, planning for the year ahead and making resolutions. I am no different.
This past few weeks I have had a great time away in Feurteventura and back home in Blackpool over …

Flicks Bar in Fuerteventura

I recently came back from a short break in Feurteventura, and just wanted to give a shout out to Flicks Bar in Corralejo.
If your visiting the island be sure to give them a visit - great atmosphere, staff are really friendly and it seems to be one of the more popular …

DeskLickr - Automatically Change your Desktop Background using Flickr

This excellent little (OSX only) application DeskLickr has spread around the office I work in like wildfire.
It simply changes your background wallpaper at specified intervals using pictures from Flickr. You can pick photos by interestingness, tag, a username, a group …

Dreamhost Promo Code

Dreamhost is a popular web hosting company that has some really nice features and generous bandwidth and disk space. I use dreamhost for hosting the majority of my websites.

Dreamhost has sent me five promo codes to hand out:

426348986526

375991370848

568536138246

Dolphin Stranded on Cleveleys Beach, Blackpool

I heard a rumour yesterday that a dolphin had washed up on Cleveleys beach - I was doubtful, but here are the pictures to prove it:

http://flickr.com/photos/16972145@N04

Pictures courtesy of Joe Kennedy.

After trying to get the dolphin back into deeper water, without …

Direct Link to Radio 1 "Listen Live" Online Stream

For those of you that listen to Radio 1 over the internet, this might come in handy:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/wm_asx/aod/radio1.asx

It is the direct link to the online stream, so you can paste this into an application like Winamp, VLC or whatever you use instead of …

Canon MP210 Arrives

Just a quick note that the www.amazon.co.uk%2FCanon-PIXMA-210-Photo-Printer%2Fdp%2FB000UXAORG&tag=caymybycouk-21&linkCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=6738">Canon MP210, which I showed previously how you can get for

Canon MP210 (printer, scanner and copier) for

Canon are doing a Cashback Thing until 13th April on the www.amazon.co.uk%2FCanon-PIXMA-210-Photo-Printer%2Fdp%2FB000UXAORG&tag=caymybycouk-21&linkCode=ur2&camp=1634&creative=6738">Canon MP210 Printer, Scanner and Copier.

If you buy this printer, you can claim

Teapigs Promotion Code

I recently some bought some excellent Yerba Mate tea and Green Tea from Teapigs.co.uk and they sent me a 10% voucher code - just enter SPRING at checkout.

Yerba Mate is a quite extraordinary tea and it reallys gives you a pick me up when you need it. It also is reported …

Ryan Air Dirty Trick #729

If you book tickets in bulk (say 10 or more), you will pay more per ticket than if you buy them individually (in our case

Donate to John

After talking about it for a while, John Stirzaker has gone out and launched his website Donate To John.

The idea is simple - donate money to John via Paypal and when he has had enough of free money the site will be passed on to another John (My middle name is Jon, does …

Heaven & Hell from a European Perspective

From a poster seen in an Italian office:

In Heaven...

• the mechanics are German


• the chefs are French


• the police are British


• the lovers are Italian


• and everything is organized by the Swiss.

In Hell...

• the mechanics are French


• the police are German


• the chefs are …

Missing Pidgeon

Genius. I could just imagine this sign outside the back of Marks and Spencers in Blackpool, where all the pidgeons congregate hoping for scraps of Hampsons pies and pastries.

ACL Surgery Update - 8 Weeks

It has been 8 weeks since my Anterior Cruciate Ligament was reconstructed after a football injury and I am now managing almost a full normal bend of the knee, running, lifting weights and swimming.

It has been pretty tough keeping up the motivation of going to the gym …

Free Diving With Great White Sharks

I was browsing through these Shark Videos and found this excellent/stupid video of a diver "free diving" in Shark Alley (sounds ominous), South Africa.

Free diving is basically snorkelling with a wetsuit, but the idea is the diver doesn't have all the equipment that …

Wordbook Application for Facebook and Wordpress

I have just added Wordbook to this blog and my Facebook account, which means every time I post here it will be added to my status in Facebook.

Great little plugin, the Wordpress community always comes up with the goods.

Recstand in Action

Here is an action shot of the excellent Recstand - a stylish little stand to hold your CDs and DVDs.

(click for larger)

Coolest Shark Dog Toy

Dog toys are great, but this one is truly awesome:

Shark Dog Toy