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If you love to travel as much as I do then this is a competition you'll want to read about. The Radisson Blue Quiz is a simple and fun trivia quiz about all things Europe and you can win some pretty amazing prizes, from gift cards that can be used in any Radisson Blu hotel to a weekend away in one of several European cities.

I don't get to actually do much travelling these days – having a lack of funds and a fiance that is terrified of flying sort of limits you a little, but I still try to get away whenever I can – even if it's just within the UK. Plus I am forever entering competitions to try and win holidays, flights and gift cards etc

Please visit the Radisson Blu website for complete details on how the competition works and all the terms and conditions but here is the general gist.

You'll be asked three questions about Europe that are pretty straight forward and easy to answer and once you have answered all three if you got all of them correct you will get the chance to win an instant prize, just spin the wheel and see what it lands on – prizes available are gift cards varying in value from €20 to €100! Then you'll be invited to enter the main prize draw that takes place every week between now and January 3rd – each week one lucky winner will swoop a weekend away for two at a Radisson Blu hotel in one of the following cities: Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Helsinki or Hamburg. The beauty is that you get to enter the main prize draw regardless of if you answer all questions correctly or not so even those of us who lack geography knowledge stand a great chance at winning

You need to be 18 years old and from Europe to enter.

Good luck guys, and if you win one of the prizes be sure to let me know so I can turn green with envy!

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My host move is complete now, all sites now reside on Hostgators server. I just went to cancel my dreamhost account but though I better check the FAQs first to see how I go about getting the 6+ months back that I have pre paid and about fell off my chair when I read that they don’t refund that — I am staying calm at the moment and waiting for them to confirm it via a ticket I just sent in, but if that’s true there’s going to be drama…how could they possibly charge me for 6+ months of service….that they have not and will not be providing me with?! There must be some mistake.

Have you seen the new themes on GMail? When I noticed the design change yesterday I figured there must be some way I could edit the colour scheme, but look as I might I could not find it — I logged on just now and saw a big note saying to go to the themes tab to change it, so whether I was being blind yesterday or they only just added it — who knows?

I have set it to the desk theme at the moment, I have a similar theme on one of my other WordPress blogs. Though I think once the novelty wears off I will switch it to something similar.

Still, cool new feature. I love me some GMail

I still have some tweakings to do, I have 100s of smilies to upload to my wordpress and codes to remember for their short cuts etc, because at the moment all my old entries are littered with :heart: :shrug: etc rather than images, doh. I also need to decide if the ‘Ask’ script is returning or not, at the moment I am thinking no, it had become a bit redundant and a pain in the bottom – but I still kinda like it so we shall see.

Apparently I don’t have the comment plugger installed correctly or something though, because I don’t see any of you commenters plugged. I shall have to look into that.

In order to ensure I blog on a regular basis I am going to have some regular features here at Swaymyway.com, such as Wordless Wednesday – where I will just post an image that is either interesting, or describes how I feel, what I am doing etc, no words. There’ll be Twitter Thursday where I will basically post my twitter feed here and resolve to up date it every time I so much as fart – a nice one for those with stalker tendencies! There will also be my weekly TV round up, where I will talk about anything noteworthy that happened in any of my favourite shows that week. FUN TIMES.

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In other news, my mummy looks like a mummy – literally, she had to have an operation on her legs today and she’s returned from the hospital bandaged literally from her toes to her hips, I shouldn’t laugh I know but she’s fine and is funny, bless her.

Today there is meant to be a super storm in the UK, the news and weather people have been going on about it for ages – I love wild weather, it’s one of the reasons winter is my favourite season, what fun is summer – hot, sunny, pollony = snooze. Winter is where it’s at, wind, rain, snow, thunder, lightening, fog, mist, ice, sleet = much more fun. It has apparently already hit the South of the country and Wales but hasn’t made it up North where I am yet, it’s raining a little bit, but that’s not exactly interesting – I hope it isn’t a big let down, usually when the UK weather people are reporting big things, they don’t happen, UK weather people suck ha.

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Ok that is all, see you for Wordless Wednesday!

So today I am going to bore the pants off most of you I am sure, by talking about Big Brother :eye: cos if you don’t already know, I am what they might call an ‘obsessive fan’. I’ll start off with Big Brother UK 8, which has already been going for what seems like forever and ends this coming Friday, firstly let me just say ‘Hello, my name is Starlet and I am about the only person in the country who liked Charley *waves*’ – It’s an entertainment show people, not a morality show….and Charlie provided more entertainment in her time in the house than the rest of them put together! I also still think of poor Emily & wonder what the series could have been like if she’d stayed, damn that Jade Goody, Emily suffered for her racism in Celebrity Big Brother 5.
The ‘Chiggy’ relationship made me want to vomit and/or tear out my hair on a daily basis, I’d say they are perfect for each other because they are both such atrocious excuses for human beings, but I can’t because I can’t bring myself to be that nice about them. Chanelle needs to grow up, learn to take some responsibility for own actions, get her jealousy under control and grow her own personality and identity (I wonder if Victoria Beckham has taken out a restraining order yet?) and Ziggy, “well…ya know…simple…ya know? Well, I mean…it’s simple, ya know? end of really.” – Who’s ever heard the guy make sense rather than talk in a bloody circle?! Now we are down to the final, I don’t care who wins really…I know it won’t be tyrannical Carole, or mumbling Ziggy as they simply don’t have the support, I don’t especially like Mr Smug aka Liam but it won’t be the end of the world if he wins, Brian, the Twins and Jonty are all lovely and I’d be happy to see them win it, but I don’t feel any of them deserve it…they’ve coasted through by being nice guys, avoiding conflict, keeping out of tricky situations, not having opinions. My personal favourite, and someone I thought was a very worthy winner, walked out of there just over a week ago…the wonderful Gerry :throb: I can at least take comfort in the fact he’s the person to leave the house with the lowest ever eviction percentage

Overall I have to say the series has been balls, as bad as if not worse than last years…which I thought was as low as it could go…too much manipulation, no decent tasks, flopping twists & the public keep voting out the wrong ones.

Give me Big Brother Australia over UK any day…I won’t bang on about this quite as much though, don’t worry. This is the 3rd series of the Australian version I have seen (I also uploaded the whole thing to youtube, yup…the whole thing…unfortunately at about the mid way stage I became involved in an ‘International incident’ which was quite hairy :glasses: Take a read of what happened here if you so wish.) and I do have to say, not the best…but still thoroughly enjoyable. Unfortunately Big Brother Australia suffers from the same problem the UK does, a stupid bloody voting public who, despite pleas from the hosts to ‘Vote for the house you want to watch, not the one you want to live in’ – always vote out the people with an ounce of personality and life in them, meaning come mid series you are usually left with a bunch of dull as all hell nicey nicey people (Blandrew – worst Aus HM ever? I think so) and they have to throw in some crazy bastard intruders to liven things up. Bodie remained one of my favourites throughout the series despite being kicked out at the 2nd eviction, crazy TJ was a hoot and Emma was probably my favourite overall this year. When it got down to the final 2 I was very pleased with both, one a lovely bubbly happy chick, the other a camp as a row of tents, funny and lovely young guy…it was very reminiscent of the Big Brother UK 2 final, which saw a similar universally loved pair of Helen and Brian face off. In the end Aleica won it, by a very small margin, and that made me happy. Just a shame the final was such a disaster.

And now (Yes, she’s still talking about Big Brother!) Big Brother USA 8. I lost my favourite on Thursday, the wonderful unflappable (errr…well until last week she was unflappable) Jen, the girl who always had a smile on her face, even when ‘Evil Dick’ poured a glass of iced tea right over her head, when she rightfully called his ‘I’m so morally superior to you, Jen’ daughter on the fact she’s actually just a little princess slut. Amber drives me crazy with the crying, has one person ever cried so much on national TV before? Her and Jameka drive me crazy with their God bothering also, they seem to think the chap has nothing better to do than help them win food competitions! I really liked Eric up until the last episode, I thought he had done really well with the America’s Player thing and was a nice, funny guy…but the way in which he treated Jen on her leaving (and then we saw his butter wouldn’t melt, suck suck leaving message)…yup…now I see why everyone else thought he was a smug, slimy, sleazeball
Dick and Daniele…well don’t even get me started on these pair of degenerates, I enjoy a good game player as much as the next person…so in the early stages really enjoyed Dick’s style, but he long since over stepped the mark when he poured the Ice Tea over Jen, and the scenes in which he was blowing smoke in her face and then burning her with his cigarette were probably the most unpleasant Reality TV scenes I have ever watched (and this is coming from someone who saw Kinga stick a wine bottle up her lady garden!), it made me sick that no one stepped in. Makes you wonder how far someone would have to go on the USA version, before Big Brother/the Police had to step in, I ain’t easily shocked…but that shocked me. Then on to his ‘lovely’ daughter Skeletor…erm…I mean…Daniele, Daniele’s poor boyfriend…that’s all I can say, like it’s not bad enough to watch her getting close to another guy in the house…she & the producers rub it in at every available opportunity. Having a gooey letter from him in her HOH room? Him going as her loved one to the ‘power of 10′ thing? Pathetic, show some bloody respect woman. I just hate everything about Daniele, from the fact she looks like she’s about to die from malnutrition, to the fact she pretends to hate her dad but then smirks and laughs and loves it when he fights her battles for her, from the fact she thinks she’s a good strategic player but then has to backdoor someone – the ultimate act of cowardice in this game, to the fact she has the whiiiiinnnnneist voice ever ‘Ooooh daaaad this sssuuuuucks, there’s no ooooone leeeeft in thiis hoooooooooooooooooooouuuuuussssseeeeeeee Iiiiiii likeeeeeeee waaah waaaaaaah waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah’. I think out of the ones left, Jessica is the only one I really like…and Zach is the only one who’s game I respect.

Ok, whew…done. Congratulations if you read all of that, but don’t you have anything better you should be doing :giggle:

What I have to say right now though…I am sooooooooo damn tired, I barely got a wink of sleep last night because it’s so damn windy, seriously…I’ve never known wind like this before in the UK and it’s been relentless. I only just dragged myself out of bed and came online to see if there was any mention of it in the news, thinking it was just a local storm, but it’s country wide…all over the news…people have died….gale force winds etc etc, it’s quite scary. We are not used to such things in the UK.

Have a look at some pictures.

Later my peepz.

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RIP to every single one of them.

The IRA has formally ordered an end to its armed campaign and says it will pursue exclusively peaceful means.
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WOW, that is major! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Following the disaster in London . . .

East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national “In case of
Emergency ( ICE ) ” campaign with the support of Falklands war hero
Simon Weston.

The idea is that you store the word ” I C E ” in your mobile phone
address book, and against it enter the number of the person you
would want to be contacted “In Case of Emergency”.

In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be
able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to
contact them. It’s so simple that everyone can do it. Please do.
Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book,
it won’t take too many ‘forwards’ before everybody will know about
this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one’s mind at
rest.
For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.