What boys buy girls on Valentine’s Day…

[caption id="attachment_1781" align="alignright" width="249"] A nice spa day - this is what we'd really like for Valentine's Day...[/caption] Following on from the other day when we wrote about whether it was just too modern to buy your BF or hubby a bunch of flowers or a spa break for a romantic Valentine's Day gift, we thought we'd share with you how our very own BFs mind works when it comes to the 14th February. Bearing in mind he's French and all that, we thought he'd be busy writing beautifully crafted love sonnets written in ink using a quill. But no,...

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Easy tiger with that Easyglider!

[caption id="attachment_1770" align="alignright" width="250"] The Easyglider has headlights and even an iPod dock![/caption] Every now and again someone comes up with a rather madcap product idea. Sometimes they sink without trace after the fanfare launch (err...Sinclair C5 anyone?), sometimes there just isn't room for all of them (Betamax vs VHS, then) but other times these ever-so-slightly eccentric inventions actually catch on and we're wondering just what the world thinks of the Easyglider! The Easyglider is a very simple, efficient and funky personal transporter dreamt up by a Swiss designer who wanted an easy and ecologically sound way to get around...

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What girls buy for boys on Valentine’s Day

[caption id="attachment_1763" align="alignright" width="250"] If chocolate be the food of love, then eat on...(apologies to Shakespeare)[/caption] Whilst pottering through our local town centre the other day, we spotted some rather cute looking mini-heart chocolate boxes in the shop window of our fave chocolatier, so we popped in. We decided a little cream heart-shaped box filled with handmade (and handpicked) scrummy choc was the ideal (if slightly girly)mini-gift for the BF for Valentine's Day...but it did get us thinking. What would your boyfriend say if you bought them flowers for St Valentines' Day? Would they turn their nose up at a...

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An encounter of the creepy-kind

[caption id="attachment_1740" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Get to grips with a slippery snake on these new predator experiences"][/caption] There are lots of phobias in the world. The more unusual include the likes of Coulrophobia, which is the fear of clowns, Bambakophobia which is actually the fear of cotton wool balls and even Lachanophobia, which is the fear of vegetables - scary things those parsnips poking out of the ground in some peoples' eyes! Well, Into the Blue can't do much about these sorts of phobias, but we can offer a way to get over the classic fears of snakes, spiders and flapping birds with...

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Anyone else miss Howard’s Way…or is just me?

[caption id="attachment_1714" align="alignright" width="250"] Boats, glamour, affairs and gossip - that was Howard's Way![/caption] Ah the joys of the internet! After writing for Into the Blue about the new Sunseekeer Taster powerboat experience setting off from Southampton, we've just done an inspired search on YouTube for Howard's Way - the BBC's supersoap which ran from 1985 to 1990 and was based around the world of posh cruisers and powerboats in the fictional town of Tarrant on the south coast of England. Remember ever-so-earnest Tom who, having been redundant as a aircraft designer, was trying to live the dream by ploughing...

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