Crikey here we go again with more wintery weather chaos! Just when we're all hoping to be driving home for Christmas, along comes another mega cold spell. We poked our noses out of Into the Blue HQ's door the other day and it was a bone-achingly -7 outside! Little wonder then that the roads were more like an ice rink that tarmac. So much so, we were half expecting a grinning Todd Carty to come sliding past us as we crawled along in the car the other evening. [caption id="attachment_2498" align="alignright" width="250"] Get to grips with the wintery weather on...
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The other week we were lamenting the fact that the big supermarket mince pies we were looking at had a sell by date before the big day on the 25th December. This spurred us on to by some mincemeat, with the intention of making some mince pies ourselves... [caption id="attachment_2476" align="alignleft" width="250"] Whahey! Our very first batch of home made mince pies![/caption] Well, we can proudly say two dozen of things have been baked already..and two dozen have already been eaten! So much nicer than shop bought ones, we're slowly coming round to the idea that taking a little bit...
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[caption id="attachment_2403" align="alignright" width="250"] No more Ready Steady Cook..no more voting green pepper or red tomato...[/caption] Tragic news in the world of daytime telly with the announcement that cookery show 'Ready, Steady, Cook!' has been axed. Now we rememeber wayyyyy back in time when the show started. We were a student and, like many, we loved nothing better than a cup of tea and a sit down to watch Fern Britton and the chefs show us how to make a meal in minutes from a bag of ingredients costing no more than a fiver. Ah halcyon days! Loads of big...
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[caption id="attachment_2396" align="alignright" width="200"] The huge 220m high Verzasca 'James Bond dam' in Switzerland[/caption] Do you remember the opening scene in the James Bond film Goldeneye? Our 007 hero (played at the time by Pierce Brosnan) makes a rather sharp exit by bungee jumping off the edge of a very tall, mysterious-looking dam before whizzing off on a motorbike to catch a runaway plane in mid-flight. Like you do. Well, we were on holiday in Locarno (that's the Swiss part of Lake Maggiore, geography fans) and we discovered the James Bond dam! It's actually called the Contra dam in the...
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[caption id="attachment_2386" align="alignright" width="250"] Find out how simples it is to adopt a real meerkat with Into the Blue![/caption] The boffins over at the Collins English Dictionary have been err…doing what they do to research new words and have made some surprising additions to the dictionary for 2011. We like the fact that Aleksandr the meerkat is being honoured by having his catchphrase ’simples’ included as an expression we use for ‘easy to do’. Aleksandr is not the only furry thing on TV to inspire a new word in the dictionary. It seems Simon Cowell’s acronym BGT for Britain’s Got...
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