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Bircarbonate of soda

Well, this week I’ve started going through cupboards in the flat, and found a couple of coffee stained thermos’ and thought what the heck can I do with these they’re ruined! Certainly couldn’t put anything in them now except coffee. So I ventured into that lovely world called google and found out that bicarbonate of soda works enormously well for stains like the one above. So I bought some and gave it a go and I can’t believe it. All these years I have invested money in chemicals to clean this that and the other and it turns out that some of the most simplest solutions are best. I also used the bicarb on my (metal) coffee maker jug at work which I’ve been trying to de-stain for ages, and after a little extra scrubbing has worked a treat. Also when you put the water in with the bicarb it makes a rather entertaining hissing fizzing noise. Cool!!!

I want a home remedy descaler now.

Rainbow cake! Wow

I bow to the pure genius of some people.

 http://www.omnomicon.com/rainbowcake

{bowing right now…yuuuuup..} I have a friend who tried her hand at multicoloured cakes but this one blew me away. Good stuff!

Geek cross stitch

This is the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages! It’s a cross stitch pattern of the Mozilla Firefox logo - brilliant stuff!

http://radicalcrossstitch.com/2008/07/10/firefox-pattern/

Roomba

I’m quite sure - for the very first time ever, I’ve actually found a gadget I would find useful - in the proper sense of the word.

It’s called Roomba and is a robotic programmable automatic hoover that has sensors built in to avoid crashing into things, falling and can even find it’s own charging station. Now I remember when these came out in America and they weren’t sold here and the reviews that I read weren’t so great, but now it’s been through a few versions and has wicked reviews on Amazon and for the first time I have actually found a gadget that is unusual AND useful. And isn’t just about playing video or surfing the web.

I wanted one when they first came out hehe and still do now hehe. I don’t think Graham isn’t so enthusiastic - not surprising though - housework gadgets isn’t something he would be into I guess! It’s about time though that gadgets came out that would be more useful than watching a film in your car or directing you to Tescos…Don’t you think?

Fun Size Twixes

According to Graham - they’re not actually fun.

Hmmm… I think he doesn’t like the idea that he can eat it in one gulp maybe hehe!