Luxury

This is an excellent book. Well worth reading, certainly explains why some people behave so oddly. Also great tips on how to get the most from life and to learn to enjoy every moment. Ruby is one of the most excellent comedians in Britain today and her acerbic wit and humour shine thruogh in this tome to mental instability. Some great inside stories on how television treats people it feels are not as much in demand as they should be. The Celebrity sharks programe with Richard E Grant must have been a hoot. Sorry I missed that.
 
Our favorourite passage:

UK’s GREAT Festival of Creativity Programme
Unique International Festival set to celebrate British business creativity and innovation in Shanghai 2-4 March 2015
 
 
In a drive to demonstrate that Britain is a world leader in commercial creativity, the GREAT Festival of Creativity will land in Shanghai in March.  The best of British talent and expertise will inspire, stimulate and fascinate a high-level business audience from the UK, China and beyond.
 

Last month International Excellence had the pleasure of relocating to Leeds, Yorkshire's (ahem...) shining beacon of urban light, to indulge in a host of exclusive film screenings, premieres and dips into the archives of cinema. Needless to say, as people who eat, sleep and breathe film- in addition to the obligatory combination of food, dreams and fresh air- a good time was had, and had by all at that. 

 Last night, Bob Stuart, founder of Meridian Audio, launched MQA (Master Quality Authenticated), a revolutionary British technology, which is poised to change the way people enjoy music all over the world. The launch, hosted in The Shard, was attended by key music industry executives, artists and commentators.

Many feel that wearing jewellery should be confined to special occasions and belongs to the glamour of a bygone age.  Happily many people now appreciate that a stylish and modern piece of jewellery be it a necklace, brooch, earrings, cufflinks or watch can lift the spirits to carry one through a working day.  Widening the scope of craftsmanship in precious metals, a beautiful piece of silver, perhaps to display just a single flower on your dressing table or pour the forbidden cream onto your breakfast porridge, bring immense enjoyment.  When better than Christmas to indulge your loved ones

It's all about wearable tech, the latest buzz is not robots ruling the world, but wearing the tech and interfacing more closely with the digital environment around us. We will slowly merge with the technological revolution and it will be all about simplicity.
You will not need a degree in computer engineering to use the latest innovations, but will employ the greatest and latest software and hardware with the flip of a wrist, the swipe of a hand or a casually voiced command.

Makes 24
275g self raising flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 tsp mixed spice
½ tsp cinnamon
75g caster sugar
1 egg
250ml milk
75g butter, melted
1 x 411g jar mincemeat
75g raisins
1 Preheat the oven to gas mark 6/200C/180fan. Grease a muffin tin.
2 Sift together the flour, bicarbonate of soda, cinnamon and mixed spice in a large bowl. Stir in the caster sugar.
3 In a separate bowl mix together the egg, milk, melted butter and mincemeat.

Wearable technology is all the new design and concept rage. That and the connection of products and things to the the net and us. We may not become cyborgs over the next decade but we will certainly be dressing like one.
The Nixie is a wrist band you wear like a watch which unstraps and turns into a quad copter that can film or photograph you then fly back onto your wrist.
This is about as Sci FI as it gets. Think of all the other applications for this wearable technology.

As promised so many years ago in the film Back To The Future but so far it has singularly failed to materialise, the Hover Board is a last in its first phase. This concept board has been engineered by Greg Henderson and uses his patented hover engine technology.

It's not brand new but the 1199 Panigale is a super bike to drool over. Also the photo campaign by Moto Corsa is hilarious. They did the usual super bike shots with a scarily clad lady and then swapped in a few more beefy chaps to even the playing field and give women something to enjoy.
It's a great parody and show Ducati really do have a sense of humour as well as making dream super bikes.