Potato Paul

Energy Audit 101

So you’ve decided to cut down on your energy usage and finally take the plunge and “Go Green”? Well just how does a regular household even KNOW how much energy they are using? Do you need to hire a scientist type guru to come around with some strange expensive energy measuring machines to see just how much wattage that microwave takes or the washing machine or the lights etc. If we do just how large will those machines be? Remember More

All Hail The Welcome Mat

Welcome mats are much under-rated staples of modern society if you ask me. Why am I spouting on about what would appear, on the surface, to be a particularly uninspiring subject with little (if anything I hear you cry) going for it? Well, because I recently conducted an experiment is for why. It went like this:

For one month I removed the welcome mat from outside my mat, just for kicks, to see what would happen when people arrived at More

I Tell You What

I tell you what one thing would alleviate much pain and make a million people feel instantly better. A thing which would cheer up even the most miserable miser. A thing which could turn whole countries around in a flash and transform normally very moody people into the kind of people that are the life and soul of the party. I am talking about what would happen if you knew someone was writing you an email, of course. How good More

Offended, That’s All

After many thousands of years us humans can now call ourselves expert wasters. From a young age we are taught to chuck things out that are perfectly good, in favour of things that are brand-new, expensive, made of plastic, and will probably break within a matter of weeks. Then, when we are old enough to drive cars we all rush out and buy one and waste loads of fuel because the legs we haven’t used enough in the previous years More

Volcanic Ash Cloud

Talk about forces of nature, that volcanic ash has caused so much disruption to flights and cost airline companies so much money that one can’t do anything but sit back and accept just how powerless we are in comparison to the natural forces around us. All the money in the world can’t do anything against that cloud of piping hot ash that is moving on the wind across all the UK, Europe and, just recently, the East coast of Canada.

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A Real And Honest Welcome

A real welcome is what you want when you visit a business’s blog, isn’t it? To feel as though you really are seeing the big picture. But so often that is not the case. Instead of a proper straight, honest talking to, you get a load of rubbish about how great the company is and how professional they are, when really they are actually only after your money in any way they can possibly get at it. So, with that More

Dean’s Lesson

Sneezing: we’ve all heard the rumours–.That the air rushes out with such force that it can literally BLOW your eyes out of their sockets. But it’s a load of nonsense, right?

Hmm, that depends on what your name is–

I had a friend named Dean when I was in my last year of school. Dean was one of those kids who was ten years ahead of all the others. He knew about bras and what the word Virgin meant long More

Tragedy

Before the age of Botox, film posters used to be incredible. Once a film was almost ready to be released, a skilled and experienced artist would go to work designing mind-blowing imagery that would not only reflect the style and tone of the film, thus beckoning the movie-goer to see it as soon as possible, but stand on its own as a one-off piece of history worth wall-space in any gallery.

Then, one day, everything, abruptly, stopped.

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The Dependants

Up and down the land off-licenses, supermarkets, corner shops and places where food and drink and cigarettes can be bought are doing us alcohol dependants a terrible and unforgivable injustice. Along with Climate Change, people who don’t smile enough, people who walk while not looking where they are going and people who don’t know how to go about making a fine cup of tea, warm beer is a continuing and frightening problem that seems to be on the rise. Some More

Don’t Be Anti-Beard

It’s sad that people with beards get such a hard time: no matter where they go they experience verbal attacks and impolite behaviour. Because a small minority of people are less than kind and also happen to have beards—Jeremy Beadle and Osama Bin Laden to name but two—the rest of the bearded world is made to suffer. It’s just sad. Bearded people are unique and they have so much to give! How do I know such insider things? That’s easy: More