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This sounds like a Junior School homework title, but it’s something I was thinking about the other day, so I thought I’d split it into categories, and look at it a bit more!

Climate
This is what first got me thinking, as winter is well and truly settling in I’m not enjoying it at all. At work we have a little Intranet style site which happens to have the weather in each of our partner countries. Right now, we have highs of maybe 7 here, whereas down in Oz, they might be at 19 in the middle of the night!! I definitely could do with an Australian climate!

Food
I like food, particularly chocolate. I’m a huge curry fan and love a bit of chilli or bolognaise, but Englad is where you can get all of these easily – I’ve no idea how multicultural other countries food is, so while I’m not a huge fan of some typically English foods, I do love the variety here, and of course Cadburys.

Public Transport
That is a bit pants here. You always here about the efficiency of public transport in Europe, and public services, I guess let’s throw a little Europe in here.

Maybe there’s more to consider here, couldn’t think of any more titles off the top of my head!

I feel if I make that the title then it can negate any whinging ahead!

I don’t like winter.

I don’t like leaving the house in the dark and getting home in the dark, which leads on to even leaving work in the dark.
I don’t like the cold.
I don’t like the rain.
(But I do like Christmas!)

On Saturday night it’s the clock change, and so the nights are just going to get darker and darker.

This makes me sad 😦
But it’s not a whinge!

The question is, can I get away with migrating and/or hibernating?

Earlier this year, for lent, I gave up buying DVDs. They’ve reached the point where they are so cheap I was buying maybe a couple every 2 or 3 weeks – woops! So during lent I only bought 2, and they were for other people – if I have strict rules I can stick to them!

It seems my buying may now have switched to books. A week or 2 ago I put together an excel spreadsheet of all the books I owned, and it turns out I’ve only read about 60% of them. So we can probably see what my aim next lent will be! Again it’s the cheapness, charity shops are fantastic for picking up the stuff you want to read! The only other new books I’ve bought recently were on a 3 for £5 deal, a present, and the new Cecelia Ahern book, which I got at half the RRP anyway!

Now Cecelia Ahern seems to be a somewhat talented author! Me and a friend at work are a bit of a mini fanclub; over the last couple of months we’ve both read all the books she’s written, and the excitement preceding this latest one coming out in paperback was somewhat extreme… and worth the hype too. Since I started it I’ve barely put it down, I read it walking to the train station, on the train, in my lunch break, at my desk before 9am – whenever I can!

Which makes me wonder, why aren’t I as passionate and desperate as that with my Bible?

I really struggle to find things I can blog about without sounding like a first class numpty lately… hence the quietness around here!

This year, Walkers launched the World Cup Flavour Cup. They released 15 new flavours of crisps, though not necessarily competing countries, and I made it my aim to try them all. Last night, my housemate, Alana and I sat down and tried them all!
We scored them based on: appealingness of name, realisticness of taste, and actual enjoyment of taste. We took an average for ranking purposes, and the combined results are below!

= 1. American Cheeseburger
= 1. French Garlic Baguette
3. Argentinian Flame Grilled Steak
4. South African Sweet Chutney
5. English Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding
= 6. Italian Spaghetti Bolognaise
= 6. Brazilian Salsa
= 8. Dutch Edam Cheese
= 8. Japanese Teriyaki Chicken
10. Welsh Rarebit
11. German Bratwurst Sausage
12. Irish Stew
13. Spanish Chicken Paella
14. Australian BBQ Kangaroo
15. Scottish Haggis

And here’s the Breakdown of our scoring. Obviously some of the flavours we’d never tried in real life, so couldn’t given them a “realistic” score.

Alana’s scores

Ineke’s scores

You know how sometimes you will walk out of a shop (or off of an internet page) and think, “Hey, that was really good service in there, I should really tell someone about it!” or “Well I’m never going there again!”. I thought this would be a good place for me to share a couple of my experiences with you all; giving credit where credit’s due, and maybe adding a bit of wariness with some other places.

I’m not sure though.

I’m definitely thinking it’s a good idea to hand out a few positive comments to places who’ve done really well, but I’m not sure about the negative stuff.
All I would put would be factual, but I don’t want to get in trouble, and don’t really want to offend (too much!)

Anyone any thoughts or advice?

In the last few weeks, Compassion has been putting up blogs with some gorgeous photo’s all themed around different colours. Please have a look and enjoy!

I’m hoping Compassion will have more of these in the weeks to come! If so, I’ll add them to the list below 🙂