I do not normally succumb to advertising, but yesterday I clicked through one of the adverts on Spotify. It was for a company called Flowe(red). They do flower deliveries, but unlike the other companies that do the same all profits go to the Global Fund to help eradicate AIDS in Africa.
Entries Tagged as 'Shopping'
Did somebody say recession?
January 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Life
Apperently times are harder for some than for others if Selfridges reckon they will sell a leg of ham at a price of more than £250 a kilo (and than includes the bone!) according to the BBC.
You would want to be sparing with the Branston on that wouldn’t you?
Baionarena
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Life, Music
After Christmas I treated myself to a couple of things on Amazon, notionally using some xmas money from Mum (happy birthday today BTW – 70 candles!). Unfortunately they had not quite arrived when the snow fell and so they didn’t get delivered here until today, when the postman brought a huge backlog of mail – [...]
Top Gear never had to put up with this
December 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
Chrystal got a new stereo for her car a while back (a pink one of course), but the shop had to order a special part in to fit it. Over the last couple of weeks Jayne has had several increasingly disputatious1 phone calls to the shop about why it was taking so long. Today she [...]
Delivery disaster. Nearly.
December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life
Today, when everybody was out, I had a delivery from Amazon which was a bit too big to fit through the letterbox. With Royal Mail this would normally mean a “while you were out” card and a trip to the sorting office. With couriers it usually means a note saying there is a parcel in [...]
Tags: Shopping
Playing the pink recorder
December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Music
It sounds like a euphemism, a variation on the famous Private Eye ‘pink oboe’ line, but it is for real – you can buy a pink descant recorder at Amazon.
An ideal ’secret santa’ gift for a gay friend with a sense of humour and no love of music.
Tags: Shopping
Blame Zeus!
December 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
I expect to be posting here rather less often for the forseeable future, thanks to a bargain purchase of Master of Olympus and Master of Atlantis for about six quid altogether. According to the package the games contain over 200 hours of gameplay which works out at about 3p for an hour’s entertainment.
Buying the past again: The Beatles v. Kraftwerk
September 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Music
Hot on the heels of the Beatles remasters comes the news that Kraftwerk are also re-releasing all their albums (not counting the Ralf & Florian albums) in a remastered form. The weird thing is, and maybe it is unpatriotic, but I would be more likely to buy one or more of the Kraftwerk remasters than [...]
Sitting at home can be expensive
September 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Life
The internet has made it easy to get skint without leaving the comfort of your own home hasn’t it? Got home from work this evening and finally got round to sposoring Eddie Izzard for his marathon of marathons. I have been following his progress on Twitter, getting increasingly impressed by the achievement, and intending to [...]
Bike parts
June 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Work
Today at work we had a local bike shop set up a stall at lunchtime, offering 15% staff discounts at their shop to try and tempt us out of our cars and into accident and emergency onto bicycles. All very worthy, and they do have an extensive catalogue. I would be interested to see how [...]
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