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Friends often ask when inspiration strikes me. All I can honestly say is “I don’t know”, it varies. Off the top of my head I can give you a recent example though. It was the May bank holiday and I’d been struggling for weeks trying to think up something that would tally up to a commission I’d recently been handed. I hadn’t got much sleep the previous night so come 4pm I was slightly dozy.

My studio has a settee that I sometimes retreat to and it’s located not far from the main window that looks out over the nearby part of town. I don’t want to be cliched in saying it evokes the sights and sounds of Montmartre, but looking straight ahead through the glass there’s a hill encrusted with houses, and it’s topped off by a neo-Gothic church, pity it’s a hack job rather than a Pugin original.

So my right eye locked its gaze on the window and what it could see were shapes twisting and arching past the window.

Anyway getting back to my point, I was curled up on the settee in the mood to drift off when suddenly through the open blinds masking the window something caught my attention. I was feeling too lethargic at that precise moment to open both eyes so I placed all responsibility on my weaker right eye. It’s always useful to have a potential excuse/scapegoat at the ready, goodness knows I’ve needed one when I’ve received bad reviews. So my right eye locked its gaze on the window and what it could see were shapes twisting and arching past the window. Their movement being fractured by the individual blades in the blind. This continued for several minutes and eventually I was so engrossed I had to open my left eye to confirm what I was looking at. It turned out to be seagulls, who I guess must have been lured up the Thames by the fishy smells of Billingsgate Market.

What they’d been doing was obviously just natural manoeuvres in the air for them, but for me it was something else. Basically it got me thinking anew and within 30 minutes I had brush in hand and was busily creating something new. Inspiration will eventually strike, never doubt it!

Do Eco-Friendly Banners Work?

Just how hard can it be to go green once and for all? Well, think of the next scenario: you are the owner of an emerging company that sells LED light bulbs. So far, so good. But you desperately need to make your company seen and heard on the market. So you eventually feel the need to spread flyers all around the city. But do you feel that would be a cruel thing to do. After all, a great deal of trees needs to be killed so that you can have your precious colored flyers flown around the city so everyone can see.

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Green Cars?

I have to admit that I am not really a huge fan of eco-friendly cars – electric cars as you might know them. The fact that one constantly needs to plug them at someplace just so that you can roughly enjoy little over 100 miles in terms of driving is not exactly exciting for me. But when I think that these cars have zero CO2 emission and that they are doing the environment so much good, I have to admit that the thought of buying such a car has started consuming more and more of my time.

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To 5 online sex hook-up myths debunked

Living in the world of cyber sex, it’s certainly true that there are a few myths going around. And the problem with myths, of course, is that the more you hear them, the truer they seem to become.

Well, I am here, now, to tell you that this isn’t always the case. Here are a few cyber sex myths debunked hopefully once and for all for some people!

1) Dating a slapper is dangerous because you might catch a disease: while it’s true that the chance of catching a sexually transmitted disease increases the more you have sex, if you are cautious then you should be as safe as anyone. The key thing is to never break the condom rule. Break that and you are quite literally asking for it.

There are literally thousands of girls and real men up and down the country who are up for a bit of modern sex…

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The life and times of a dominatrix: it’s all just a bit of (serious) fun

Every now and again things happen in your life which you can’t believe, right? Things which seem too surreal to be true, but you know that happened, because sometimes your friends won’t ever let you forget them. One, for me, was when I recently got completely soaked when a motorbike rode through a deep puddle next to me. Another more interesting and less depressing one was when I bumped into a lady in the supermarket.

You know the score: one minute you’re cruising with your trolley collecting things off the shelves, and the next you’ve gone and smacked into someone and are apologising all over the place. Not fun. Except in this case it was a little worse, as I had unknowingly knocked the woman’s handbag over as well…

…hand-cuffs and laugh and say what she did: that she was a part-time dominatrix…

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The Iron Lady

Last Saturday one of my mates called me and invited me to go see “The Iron Lady”. The movie revolves around the powerful Margaret Thatcher and director Phyllida Lloyd who together created a true masterpiece. He managed to successfully crayon the Iron Lady, and he accomplished all of that without introducing the viewers to the Thatcherism era. He shows a more human side of the character, one that displays Thatcher dancing with a ghost and tottering out for milk. Meryl Streep did a fantastic job, well she always have, hasn’t she?

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The Iron Lady

Last Saturday one of my mates called me and invited me to go see “The Iron Lady”. The movie revolves around the powerful Margaret Thatcher and director Phyllida Lloyd who together created a true masterpiece. He managed to successfully crayon the Iron Lady, and he accomplished all of that without introducing the viewers to the Thatcherism era. He shows a more human side of the character, one that displays Thatcher dancing with a ghost and tottering out for milk. Meryl Streep did a fantastic job, well she always have, hasn’t she?

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Are You Addicted To Technology?

As much helpful as today’s emerging technologies might be, they can also cause addiction. It is a proven fact that Smartphones are already making their very first victims and their use is probably going to continue to affect our lives in more than one way. Thousands of applications are transforming all of us into walking robots. We barely need to use our brain to complete small tasks such as reading an email, sending a text message or remembering to go to the dentist’s. Bottom line, we definitely need more balance.

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Why casual sex can be empowering

In the past, there’s been an awful lot of talk about why casual sex is bad: the diseases, the illnesses you can get, and all the bas stuff. But a growing army of web videos, blogs and magazines are revealing that actually, when you take religion out of the equation and think logically, casual sex is a great way to fulfil secret fantasies and hidden passions. Quite simply, it can be amazing fun, and here are a few more reasons if this introduction didn’t convince you!

1) Casual sex is good because it improves confidence: if you’re someone who can be shy, then learning how to engage with others on a physical naked level can do wonders for your self-esteem. Surely that has to be a good thing? With your new found confidence you’re bound to have more luck in other areas of your life too, and that includes employment, socialising and relationships as well.

Casual sex can make you feel brand-new again and we think there is something to be said…

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Keep in touch always!

Having good friends is a key to happiness. One may not realize this till they need them. Making friends may not be as hard as maintaining the friendship, however it’s not impossible. In our busy schedules, time is what we don’t have, so by using online social media like face book or twitter you can keep in touch with your friends, remember birthdays and send messages easily and quickly. Even though online media is a great tool but it cannot replace you in person, so never forget to go to the party, the wedding or the funeral because there is nothing more special than being with the people you love.

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