If you're interested in board games then this site will no doubt be of interest to you. There are many many games listed on here from traditional games such as chess and Monopoly, through to more modern games like the Settlers of Catan and Puerto Rico.
Finally a review site with local reviews on! It's based in the Staines and Egham area, although some of the reviews reach even further afield. If you ever wanted to know which estate agents are worth looking at, or where a good place to get furniture from is, then The Reviewing Pages is the site you're looking for.
This is quite a simple game: you are given a word and have to pick the correct definition, if you get it right you score 10, otherwise you score 0, repeat ad infinitum. However for each point you score the FreeRice people donate a grain of rice to third world countries.
The game tracks how verbose you are too and assigns you a different difficulty of word depending on your past ability. Each time you get three answers in a row right you go up a level, each time you get an answer wrong you go down a level (nb. this only kicks in after you've answered a few questions). My average level was about 29/30, and my maximum level reached was 37. The difficulty of each word is determined by how many people got it right and wrong, and so may change over time too.
The rice is paid for by the advertising on the site, and is donated to third world countries via the United Nations World Food Program.
For those of you that missed the first, second or third hikes, here's your chance to follow Team Hike 24 as they raise much needed money for a trip to work with kids in Mostar, Bosnia this Summer. They set off on the hike on Thursday the 21st of June at 5am, so keep yourself glued to the site for all the latest thrills and spills.
I'm not sure of all the rules on this one, but basically the BBC are offering a text service to recieve scores from the Ashes series down under. You send a text to a number (at usual text price), and they'll send you the live score, at whatever time of day you choose. Consequently I get woken up at 7:30 on the dot with news of England's latest.
Thanks to Paul for showing this one to me!
You may have seen the much acclaimed CuteOverload (eg. here on Sarah's blog), but here is UglyOverload! A brilliant site with pictures of some of the world's weirdest looking animals. It should be noted (and applauded) that all the animals on the site are naturally 'ugly'.
It's back again. For those of you that missed the first or second hikes, here's your chance to support Team Hike 24 as they raise much needed money for a trip to work on an orphanage in Recife, Brazil this Summer. They set off on the hike on the 3rd of June at 5am, so keep yourself glued to the site for all the latest thrills and spills.
A site based on a genius concept - take everyday snacks and make them HUGE. Be sure to check out the jaffa cake and the jammie dodger. I found that looking at most of these things made me hungry, with a few exceptions that made me feel slightly nausious (think of the sugar content!)
Have a look what these crazy guys are doing! Hiking non stop for 24 hours from Egham to Oxford and beyond!
An entire page of pictures of alternate Tube Maps. Maps showing actual locations of stations and lines, maps showing which parts of the Underground are underground, even maps showing where to go if you need the loo on the tube!
No doubt lots of people will have seen this before, but I thought it was worth adding here (if only to pretend there's still some kind of life in this blog!) Many thanks to Big Chris for reminding me of it!
Someone put a picture of a cat on the net. Next someone put a picture of their cat looking at the picture of the first cat on the net. Soon there were cats looking at cats looking at cats looking at ...
