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I’ve gone and done it. I’ve caved in and decided to buy an iPhone. I currently own a Nokia that does a sterling job but I am looking for a business mobile that can schedule, handle email and present images well, hence the purchase of the iPhone.

I bought it via the Carphone Warehouse and made sure that I used Quidco. This meant that although I had to pay £59 for the handset, I was able to claim £60 back on the Quidco cashback.

It arrives tomorrow so expect a post from the iPhone itself tomorrow!

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If you’re from the UK and watch the odd bit of TV, you may have noticed that crisp manufacturer Walkers are after ideas for a new flavour for their crisp range.

Katie thought of a few ideas and submitted them. One has made it through to the final. The flavour? Pickled Onion and White Chocolate! I can honestly say I have never tried the combination but Katie tells me it’s to die for.

Now, you might be able to try this flavour for yourself because if her idea wins, they will produce it! What I need is your help to vote for the flavour by clicking the link below:

http://www.walkers.co.uk/flavours/?page=gallery&id=4X37M

Who knows if it will win, but if you are feeling generous, give us a cheeky vote!

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It’s here, edited and ready for your viewing.

Embarassing? Yes
Cringeworthy? Yes
Best Day Of My Life? Without A Doubt

Keep an eye out for when the vicar says the first prayer of the service and how I say “Amen” at the end. I hope the ground opens up and swallows me whole!

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I posted a while back that I was getting back into commerce with my business Skillset Media. Since then I have been quiet with the details but things are starting to really pick up.

I have been in talks with some US companies about bringing some of their products to a UK audience. I don’t want to spoil anything at the moment so I will keep the nature of these products secret until I am all up and launched, one thing I can say is that the first product is of a DIY nature.

Back on subject, I have just completed my first order, I am due to receive stock in about a weeks time. The idea is to bring the product into the UK, gauge demand and if successful, become the official UK distributor for the product in question.

I have registered my domains, bought the commerce software and am in the development stage regarding the shop. The banks have played havoc with me thus far, last week visiting the bank every lunchtime in order to get forms signed and permissions granted.

Watch this space, I am not far from launching, but when I do, please do buy one of these awesome products!

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I play my lottery online via http://www.national-lottery.co.uk, I buy a bulk lot and then renew it once it runs out.

The big plus about doing it online is that they email you if you win (I have only managed a few £10 wins so far), so you don’t need to look it up online or on teletext etc.

This Friday’s jackpot has reached £55 million, quite a sum!

Links are embedded in this post for your convenience to sign up and buy your ticket (please note they are affiliate links).

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This movie trailer is being broadcast everywhere at the moment and from what I can see it will be another Guy Ritchie “Gangster” film that could possibly rank up there with Lock Stock and Snatch.

Enough babbling, here’s the trailer:

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Katie and I ventured to Lakeside, Thurrock (the world’s second biggest shopping centre, I think) to locate and take a look around every home owners worst nightmare: IKEA.

Leaving shortly after 6pm from home, we travelled to the local Matalan where we purchased a chocolate brown mirror, various kitchen equipment and even bought an HD Ready Freeview LCD TV with a built in DVD player.

Driving up the A127 on our way to Lakeside, I was pursued by a marked Police car that looked like it was on manoeuvres, blasting past me, stopping abruptly on the side of the road and then once I had overtaken it’s current position it would flash past within seconds.

Having not been to this IKEA before, we stumbled across a lot of places that would serve our house furnishing needs, one such shop was ASDA Living. Here, we bought lots of kitchen equipment, making sure to keep a continual theme colour wise and could not believe it that fifteen items would total less than forty pounds (you can see why people buy so much stuff they don’t need for their homes).

We finally found IKEA and we set about looking for the seat covers we had planned to buy. Walking through the store, following the arrows on the floor, we grabbed a trolley. Knowing that our seat covers were at the very end of the store, we added some really nifty pint and wine glasses, awesome matching table and floor lamps, by the time we were finished, we had added £150 more than budgeted for the two seat covers!

It was fun trying to fit them into the car, it was a feat of engineering! Items were moved and re-moved, put into foot wells and put on laps. We got it all in but I must say….if the house doesn’t look spiffing after this last shopping spree, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle!

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Kudos to the girl with the groin shot and the bald dude who clean swipes him!

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Have you recently upgraded your Wordpress and found that you can’t logout, write new posts or change your theme? Does it result in a white page when you try to save?

I am not sure if this specific to the Illacrimo theme but to stop this happening, simply remove the following from the theme’s functions.php file (should be around line 24):

And that’s it! You should be able to go on your merry way dancing through the glades that Wordpress built!

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