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Nightlife in London: Satiate those taste buds

In London, and confused about where to go for that perfect night out? Worry no more, for here we have the choicest of options for a food lover’s delight!

Situated on 313 Old Street, Shish offers an array of Middle East inspired cuisine with the odd prawn tempura and duck roll thrown in. It prides itself upon being inspired by the Silk Road. The restaurant is bright and roomy, the seating arrangement ample and the overall feel is of being More

Offline Promoting for Musicians

The entire world seems to be online twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, for every possible reason, from social networking to study purposes to viewing some Caroline Shotton work . Search Engine Optimisation or SEO is one method of promoting one’s product or service, but not everyone is comfortable or happy to only use the internet for promotional purposes and therefore choose other methods away from the internet as well.

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Panache Clubbing!

If you want to go clubbing in London and find yourself in The Roof Gardens in Kensington then you can safely but triumphantly proclaim that you have arrived in the high society London circle!

Owned by the flamboyant and stylish Sir Richard Branson this high profile club is spread over one and half acres of rooftop land and divided into three garden variants. The first garden is in the English woodland style housing a lake filled with flamingos while the More

X Factor Infection

Staring at my currys.co.uk discount codes on the bus the other day (I have a store card and the codes were printed on the receipt; there, I bet you feel better for knowing that random information, don’t you?), I could overhear a conversation that two teenage girls were having. The generic kind who wear matching black fake suede boots and keep saying “like” before and at the end of every single sentence. The X Factor was the source of their More

Free Schools

While looking for manual handling train the trainer on google yesterday, I somehow stumbled across this article on The Guardian website:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/sep/03/michael-gove-free-schools

There is a big cultural difference between attitudes towards education in the UK and in the USA. I didn’t really understand this until I became a mother and started talking to other mothers about sending my daughter to school. I was raised to love learning and there is a certain American attitude that pervades our education system that More

Enigin Down Under

Now, as I’m sure has crossed your mind at least once while hearing Kylie sing (or watching her gyrate) or debating with friends how Danni used to be the underdog and is now on top, you can’t really hear the word ’Australia’without imagining how much energy could be acquired from harnessing the power of all those kangaroos and their mighty hind legs, can you? And, while that is indeed a powerful thought (and a disturbing one: imagine being one of More

Joe McElderry is gay?

The latest X-Factor winner, Joe McElderry has announced recently that he is gay. I guess he has always looked a bit too pretty to be straight, but then the quote that was produced by the media in support of Joe’s coming out is a little weird:

“Every time I was asked, I gave honest answers. I wasn’t attracted to anyone anyway, male or female. It never really entered my head I was gay. I’ve had time to think about things. More

The Big Society Swindle

Luckily I didn’t find out until 8 pm last night that David Cameron was in the next room announcing his ’vision’ for the world that he wants us to inherit, Why did Mr Cameron choose Liverpool? the historic heartbeat of radical labour movements, a hundred years of workers revolting. We can all continue to ask this why we ponder what impact more volunteers at Museums will have. For that is what he was there to promote. I found it very More

Cancer patient told

Admin is a strange thing, in a flurry of papers and databases, it isn’t surprising if sometimes your appointment for chemical skin peels is canceled or if you’re double booked for a flight to Toronto.

However The Independant reported on an article where a cancer patient was literally told that he’s dead. 63 year old Alan Campbell, who suffers from skin cancer, was shocked to be told the words “You’re dead”when he tried to make an appointment at a hospital. More

Baby Come Back!

I didn’t used to watch The One Show much, I just had it on in the background while I thought about my time spent teaching overseas. And I don’t mean that actually I did used to watch The One Show much and I secretly love it. I really do mean I More