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Recent Posts Tagged With 'product reviews'
Blogger Bognor!
I've tried to cut down on the product reviews on this blog, but when FuelMyBlog gave me and my girlfriend the opportunity to visit the Butlins resort in the seaside town of Bognor Regis, I couldn't say no.Admittedly, the one and only time I'd been to...
In which JD orders a takeaway over the internet
OK, this is the last product review for a while. I promise!Last weekend, FuelMyBlog gave me the opportunity to test out Just-Eat.co.uk gratis. In a nutshell, it's a website that lets you order takeaways over the internet. Handy if you're stuck subbin...
Love, Death, Madness, and an American Biography
I've recently finished reading The Man Who Made Lists: Love, Death, Madness, and the Creation of Roget's Thesaurus, a biography of Mark Roget by the Boston-based writer Joshua Kendall. You have to love that title.The book made for a pacy read - partl...
Nora Batty comes from Iffyton. Eeh ba gum!
My girlfriend is from the East Midlands so no doubt finds it hilarious whenever I talk about her 'northern accent' and pretend she says such things as 'eeh ba gum'.She got her own back on me recently, however. FuelMyBlog gave me the chance to review ...
Caffeine and the production desk
Tea and coffee are big deals on my production desk, and among the editorial staff as a whole. I suspect that this is one of those trends that runs right through journalism.In my workplace, the coffee drinkers take it in turns to pop downstairs to Sta...
