• Over A Month of Your Life Lost to Packaging

    Here’s a great reason to use gift bags this Christmas. We’ll spend the equivalent of 43 days of their lifetime – struggling to open troublesome packaging. A study of 2,000 UK adults found they spend 19 minutes a week trying to get into tricky packaging which is secured with too much tape, cable ties or

  • When Will the Family Get Annoying this Christmas?

    Brits will start to find their relatives annoying by 2.13pm on Boxing Day. After all the excitement of Christmas Day – the presents, the food and time spent with loved ones – the mood will start to sour the following day as families begin to grate on one another. Individuals wanting to escape their family

  • Is that a panto on a train? Oh no it isn’t. Oh yes it is! Travellers were surprised when they were invited to enjoy an impromptu pantomime performance on a train between London Paddington and Heathrow Airport. Rather than treading the boards, Prince Charming could be seen riding the rails and running the aisles of

  • The perfect chip has finally been unveiled

    The ‘perfect chip’ should be precisely 7cm long and 1.2cm wide – and straight cut. For maximum ap-PEEL, a chip should also be crispy on the outside and soft in the middle. While skinny, curly and crimped might seem all the rage, a classic straight cut served piping hot is still the chip of choice,

  • Could you be Britain’s next top hand model?

    It sounds like something out of THAT episode of Friends, you know the one where they end up in Vegas and Joey finds his identical hand twin… A trio of top models let their fingers do the walking in a fashion show with a difference… Professional hand models Julia Holden, Cherelle Claudia and Sarah Skjoldevik

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