107 Year Old Wants Husband
January 13, 2009
A woman who was afraid to marry when she was younger has now begun to look for a husband at the age of 107. Wang Guiying is looking for a fellow centenarian though, I think she may struggle as the pool of fish is quite small.
Wang said:
“I’m already 107 and I still haven’t got married, what will happen if I don’t hurry up and find a husband?”
Wang grew up as a salt merchant’s daughter in Guizhou and witnessed her uncles and other men beat their wives, often finding her aunt crying in the wood shed. Wang said she was frightened of getting married and that women had few rights and low social standing. During this period many women had their feet bound to make them appear daintier and more marriageable.
Wang worked as a farmer until she was 74 and no longer strong enough to work the fields. Currently her nieces and nephews look after her though, with the youngest at 60 she worries they are getting too old to look after her.
Locals are helping Wang find her one hundred year old groom. They are appealing to old people homes in an attempt to find a suitor.
January Freebies
January 12, 2009
With the recession looming, companies are trying more than ever to generate business. So today I’m blogging about how you can benefit from free offers so you know where to look.
For most of the offers you’ll need an email address, freebies are mainly incentives to buy more, generate first time business or data capture.
I wouldn’t use a work email address as often you will be bombarded with emails to try and gain further business once the incentives have ceased.
Dining Out
Pizza Express – free main course when you buy the first, running til the end of April.
Millies Cookies – free cookies, smoothies etc with voucher booklet
Beauty
Free Olay Effects Moisturiser
Free 4ml ‘Sensuous’ perfume from Estee Lauder
Free ‘Sweetheart’, Ghost perfume sample
Home
Sign up to the Jessop’s website for 40 free prints
Crown is offering 5 free paint samples from the Pure Paint Range
Out For The Day
Join the National Trust online, to get a free pair of binoculars, this offer includes 3 months free membership.
To Download for Free
12 months free McAfee Security for HSBC online banking customer. Barclays are offering a similar deal.
Home and Learn – free computer tutorials in Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Money For Free
The American Express Platinum credit card earns a brilliant 5% cash back.
Switch to Alliance & Leicester or First Direct 1st accounts to get £100 for switching.
Chart to Ditch CD Sales
January 9, 2009
The commercial radio chart has said today that they are to drop CD sales from their official figures. The weekly chart for singles broadcasts on over 130 radio stations and will as of this weekend be based solely on digital download sales.
Global Radio, owner of the commercial radio chart has said that downloads cover 96 percent of data that the chart is compiled from. The new set up will be as of this weekend and broadcasted on Sunday.
The show has 1.9 million listeners weekly. Paul Jackson, Director for Global Radio’s Hit Music Network has said:
“Downloads have now become the driving force for record sales, as the statistics clearly show. It makes complete sense to reflect the changes in how people are listening to music.”
I for one have never bought music off the web and can’t see it happening any time soon. That said, I’m not a big purchaser of albums.
I doubt we will be affected much, if at all by this change… though, I am still grieving the loss of Top of the Pops. Some changes just aren’t good for us!
The Sad Wedgewood Story
January 6, 2009
The English pottery industry has been in a poor state for some time now. Though, now it seems that the last stand has finely fallen and the heart of the Stoke-on-Trent pottery industry is set to die.
Stoke-on-Trent was built around the pot kilns and smoky sky’s many years ago. The culture, economy and people have had pottery in their blood for 250 years and now sadly it looks to be coming to an end.
The loss of jobs shouldn’t be forgotten but I think the whole of Britain should morn in the loss of the great manufacturing giant of years gone past. A truly global dominator from what now seems history. I doubt very much that the Chinese or whichever newly industrialised country takes over the production will do the goods justice. It does beg the question as to whether people will buy Wedgewood if it is not produced in the UK as surely that was the whole point?!
A Bleek Outlook For 2009…
January 5, 2009
Well, Christmas is over and we are officially back to work with 2009 moving full speed ahead.
What does 2009 hold for us? The recession has officially kicked in and unemployment is growing at an unsustainable rate, businesses are going under and Britain is getting depressed. Christmas brought a much needed holiday to the misery that is the UK at the moment.
The youth of today have no interest in politics and have learnt from an early age that politicians talk crap and have no grip on reality today. How can they? Earning £60,000 a year each and rarely mixing with normal society.
I do worry about Britain; it’s true it’s going to the shitter. The people entrusted to run the country have no idea; they talk of ideals while the rest of us worry how to pay the bills.
I do hope that this year improves as it is going to be a long 2009 if it doesn’t!