The Olympic Torch comes to Croydon

After two months of hearing about every other cities’ experience of the Olympic flame, today I got to witness it myself. I recently heard that today 20,000 went to watch the Olympic Flame travel through Croydon, one of whom was myself. The crowd was dense, the sun intense and yet the excitement of being just…

The Lord of the Rings trilogy

I may confess that I spend too much time watching films over and over again, and rarely straying out from a select few. However recently I have engaged myself with the award winning, Lord of the Rings trilogy. The stories are set on the mystical land of Middle-Earth, a place ruled by the evil tyrant…

A Punch and Judy Show

Ahhhh, one of the joys of a child’s life has to be watching a Punch and Judy show. I must admit I never really saw many of them when I was younger, but recently I have revisited that great experience. Some may say that sitting on the grass, watching a puppet stand containing a man…

Go Compare – Saving the Nation

I have recently caught wind of an advert which is quite literally ‘Saving our nation’. Like any person, I hate the go compare adverts with that singing guy with the moustache. At last someone has done something about it.

The Great Elastic Band Chase 2009-2012

In September 2009 I started Secondary School and this meant a thirty minute walk to school every morning (and thirty minutes home again). While walking I noticed that the pavement was littered with red elastic bands, dropped by the postman, I’m sure you know the ones I mean. They were on every street, in large…

Sweatshops to Superdry

Sweatshops are one of the unavoidable sins of the twenty first century. No matter where we buy our clothes, at whatever expense and from whatever source the truth is that they probably started life off in a sweatshop. Sweatshops are small and cramped buildings in poor countries. These buildings are likely to be the size…

The Rubix Conundrum

I have always struggled with the incomprehensible conundrum that is the Rubix Cube. It completely baffles me, turning the rows, the columns, constantly turning but to no avail. And what is even more infuriating is that my 10 year old brother can complete almost the whole cube and yet I am still stuck on finishing…