I fondly remember eating Freddo chocolate frogs made of Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate back when I was a kid. All these long years later Cadbury Freddo bars are still on sale. Given how quintessentially British […]
The ‘Black Box’ flight data recorder sits inside aircraft continuously recording the details of what is happening so that should the unthinkable happen and something goes wrong mid flight investigators have the information they need […]
The article below was first published in April 2014. In an article in the Dorset Echo in April 2018 it was reported that Dorset Cereals could leave Dorchester and move production to Poole. Confession time, […]
The HS2 project to provide a new faster ‘high speed‘ rail link between London and the north of England has caused much debate. Those for argue it will bring great economic benefits, those against that […]
The peice below was originally posted in March 2014. As you may well have heard Waitrose are coming to Sherborne. They have done a deal to take over the Co-operative store in the middle of […]
There is a Yeovil based business that has always amused me. Whenever I have seen ‘Puffin Cleaners‘ I have imagined customers strolling up carrying pet carriers containing grubby sea birds that they wish to have […]
I picked up a few things in Waitrose a while back and took advantage of their free newspaper for myWaitrose cardholders and picked up a copy of The Observer. Towards the back of the newspaper […]
Wandering around Weymouth in early 2014 I spotted the advertising board pictured below for the Marlboro restaurant and take-away. The thing that caught my eye was the prominence of the offering of ‘Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Mackerel […]
Back in February 1966 Australia changed its currency and went decimal. Out went Australian Pounds, Shillings and Pence to be replaced with Australian Dollars and Cents. Two new Dollars would be equivalent to one old […]
I have always associated Anchor butter with New Zealand, the packs on UK supermarket shelves used to state “New Zealand Butter”. But it seems that is no longer the case. The Anchor brand is owned […]
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