When I got pregnant with my second child my husband and I decided too go private instead of using the NHS hospital we used for Sheldon. Although Sheldon's birth went through without a hitch, I still have nightmares from the experience. At the time the hospital was overcrowded , I was in labour for some time and they moved me from room to room quite a bit. My husband opted to pay for one of their private rooms but he said it was in a poor state of repair and would be no different than the room I was already in. During my stay I found it difficult to get information from the nurses as they were always busy and/or tired!!! Now with my daughter's birth things couldn’t be more different, we choose the Private Hospital London and was an excellent choice. We got a private room, my husband was allowed to stay with me for the entire duration, I got to choose a midwife, who was the most pleasant midwife you could ask for, she was very informative and soothing at the same time. In my opinion if you want a great experience in hospital, it would be wise to go private!!

I'm a big believer in the power of the internet, but the news of a 'deep web' existing beneath the one everybody knows about, and up to THREE TIMES its size, pretty much blew my mind. Apparently you can buy and sell anything you want there, and it's becoming every more popular as the economy is squeezed and people try to find cheaper ways of living their lives, like an online black market. All you have to do is encrypt your ip address, buy some bitcoin, and boom, the deep web is your oyster. That said, it's also pretty illegal, so if you're looking for a new flat, job, or car, you'd be much better off checking out adizar.co.uk , where they've got everything you could possibly want listed. No law-breaking = no jail term = time to actually enjoy that new (miniature) Ferrari. Vrooooom.

The Battleship Potemkin is widely recognized as one of the best films ever made. A silent film by Sergei Eisenstein, it was produced by Mosfilm and released in 1925. Widely believed to be one of the most influential propaganda films ever made, the film concerns the mutiny that occurred in 1905 when those aboard the Russian battleship, Potemkin, mutinied against their Tsarist officers.

Einstein wrote the film very much in the interest of propaganda but also to test his ‘montage’ theories. The Kuleshov school of Soviet filmmakers had been experimenting with the effect of film editing on audiences, and Eisenstein was at the forefront of this investigation. Einstein attempted to edit the film so as to produce a great emotional response in the audience, inciting sympathy in viewers for the rebellious sailors, and hatred for their evil Tsarist overlords. The film was received better internationally than in Russia itself, the film shocking audiences due to the level of violence it contained. Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels recognized the potential of the film to influence thought saying, “anyone who had no firm political conviction could become a Bolshevik after seeing the film”. Get yourself some ipad 3 accessories and watch the film on your ipad!

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26th July 1894 – 22nd November 1963) was an English writer famous in particular for his novel Brave New World and short essays, not gu10, but Doors of Perception. Huxley did not limit himself to novels but also wrote poetry, film stories and scripts, short stories and travel writing.

In 1954 Huxley had ‘The Doors of Perception’ published, a book detailing his experiences on mescaline. After taking mescaline over the course of the afternoon, Huxley recorded the insights he experienced in the book. When Huxley took mescaline, the drug had no controls, it was not listed an illegal. In fact, in 1947, the US Navy began Project Chatter which examined the potential for the drug to be use as a truth revealing agent.

After taking mescaline, Huxley wrote the book over a month. Harold Raymond, Huxley’s publisher, said of it: “You are the most articulate guinea pig that any scientist could hope to engage.” The title of the book was taken from a poem by William Blake titled “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”: "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things through narrow chinks of his cavern."

At the weekend I went to a lovely local fish restaurant for a family meal. It was amazing.

I had mussels in a white wine and garlic sauce to start then monkfish, lightly battered in one side with chips and mushy peas and then eton mess for dessert!

The food was beautiful and we also had a few glasses of rose! Lovely.

However, I was so full I couldn’t move! I ended up having to undo the top button of my trousers!

Why don’t they make womens trousers that have an extra button so you can move it to the next one if you are full!

Now they would be a brilliant idea and no one would have to know that you have had to loosen them!!!

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