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Classic Cartoons - Looney Tunes - Wile E Coyote and Roadrunner

In the stoney deserts of New Mexico two adversaries do battle in the age old struggle for survival. The hunter and the hunted. The hunter goes by the name of Wile E Coyote, his intented lunch - the Roadrunner.

Classic Cartoons - Hannah Barbera - Tom and Jerry

Tom and Jerry were an animated cat (Tom) and mouse (Jerry) team who formed the basis of a massively successful series of cartoon shorts created, written, and directed by animators William Hanna and Joseph Barbera (later of Hanna-Barbera fame) and pro...

British Comedy - Some Mother's Do 'Ave 'Em

Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em was a hugely popular British comedy series, broadcast by the BBC in the 1970s. It was considered unlikely to succeed but the series triumphed due to the outstanding performance of Michael Crawford as the hapless Frank Spencer...

Classic Cartoons - Looney Tunes - Sylvester and Tweety Pie

Sylvester the cat was created by Fritz Freleng for the 1945 cartoon "Life With Feathers" in which a henpecked lovebird tries to commit suicide by having Sylvester eat him. The cat's very first words were "Thufferin' Thuccotash", u...

British Comedy - Goodnight Sweetheart

Meet Gary Sparrow, an ordinary bloke with an extraordinary life. Juggling his roles as devoted husband to Yvonne and dependable friend to Ron. In the East End of London lies a strange alley - Duckett's Passage - his discovery of the alley eads Gary b...

Final Fantasy X - The Aeons

Final Fantasy has made its name by bringing to the gamer some of the finest fantasy creatures to enhance the battles. Only Yuna can summon thee magnificent creations and you may recognise some as reincarnated from previous Final Fantasy games.

Final Fantasy X - The Good Guys

I started playing Final Fantasy when Cloud was blocky yet it had the most stunning cut schenes I had ever seen on the PS1. I battled with Squall and Vivi then I thought my Final Fantasy days were over. Then I bought a PS2, got out my trusty sword and...

British Comedy - Chalk

First aired on the BBC in 1997 and written by Stephen Moffat, Chalk is a satirical comedy based in the fictional sink estate comprehensive - Galfast high. Eric Slatt - played by David Bamber is the schools dysfunctional deputy headmaster and has a un...

Home Education on the Internet

Homeschooling – also called home education or home school – is the education of children at home, typically by parents or guardians, rather than in a public or private school. Unschooling is a form of education in which learning is based...

Top 10 Blackcurrant Sweets

This lens grew from an idea my son gave me when he was picking his way through a bag of sweets to find the blackcurrant candy. Its the only flavour he likes.

Final Fantasy X-2

Yuna and Rikku reappear in this novel spin off from Final Fantasy X and are joined by a new character called Paine. This is the first game in the FF series to feature an all female cast. Revisit Spira and resolve its political conflicts once again.

Top Web 2.0 Tools You Can't Afford To Miss

Web 2.0 is a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2003and popularized by the first Web 2.0 conference in 2004, refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis and folks...

How To Hypnotize

You too can change your life by the power of hypnosis.  Stop smoking, lose weight, gain confidence.  It changed my life, now it's your turn.

Ratchet and Clank

Ratchet and Clank is a series of 3D platform shooter video games. The franchise has been developed primarily by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and the PlayStation 3 video game...

Rock Guitar Lessons

Nothing beats the sound of rock. Whether it be the driving metal chords of Ted Nugent or the skillful harmonic licks of a Green Day acoustic track. Now you too can learn how to play like the masters.

Real Ales

Real ale is the name coined by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) for a type of beer defined as "beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed, and served without the use o...

Think Pink In The Garden

Pink is one of nature's most varied and vibrant colors. From the bright fuschia pinks to the gentle blush on a lotus flower the color pink expresses the diversity of natural colors. All shades of pink look sophisticated when combined with black or gr...

Quality Street Vs Roses

Quality Street Vs Roses Everyone gets a huge tin of them for Christmas, its the first choice for Mother's Day. We all love chocolates but which one will win. Is it Nestle Quality Street in their lovely cellophane wraps and vintage tins. Or is it Cadb...

Quality Street Crafts

Have you ever looked at a huge pile of Quality Street wrappers and wondered what they could be used for? Can they be recycled? Firstly you notice the wrapper has two components. 1. the foil inner and 2. the brightly colored cellophane outer. The ce...

Spyro The Dragon

The first Spyro game - Spyro the Dragon, released in the USA on the September 10th 1998 for the Playstation 1. It was a platform game that placed the player as Spyro a small purple dragon set with the task of freeing his fellow dragons from crystal p...