bigbubba.co.uk

My son's football team recently won their first tournament, and I can say that I was possibly more excited than them!! I mean he is only seven and the level of football couldn’t be described as anything more than amateur but too see these young lads work together as a unit, brought tears to my eyes!!! After the ceremony my son and his friends were twisting my arm to get them pictures of their accomplishment. I told them I would but I was not going to get them from the photo-stand at the pitch as I did once before and ...

One of the most famous marital traditions in the UK is that of the Hen and Stag weekends where the bride and groom separately embark upon a final pre-marriage trip with their friends. By tradition grooms take a weekend away with their male friends whilst the brides do the same but with their female associates. The idea behind these marital traditions is that both parties get a weekend without each other before their wedding day so that they can be sure that they truly wish to spend the rest of their lives together. ...

Susan Sontag believes that a consequence of photography having become the primary means for understanding reality is the materialization of “bureaucraticcataloguing”. Sontag asserts that the bureaucratic organization of modern states comes as a result of photography’s perceived ability to offer information. Photographic documents, such as passports or identity cards, enable institutions of control to control “increasingly mobile populations”. Thus one can argue that the prevalence of photographic images, and our dependence on them as a means of understanding reality, has led to new forms of social organization. Who would have thought that their camera and its attendant camera data lead...

The first thing that people usually want to know about LED Christmas lights is how much money do they save. There are a lot of factors to consider when calculating the costs of running LED Christmas lights – like how many lights you want, the wattage of the LED lights you choose, and how often you keep them on. To calculate the savings of LED Christmas lights, we are going to compare 1 strand of standard incandescent Christmas lights at 48 watts to 1 strand of LED Christmas lights at 8 watts....

The selam refers to the Turkish, Persian, or Oriental language of flowers, which was a memorised list of meanings attributed to different flowers. The Turkish system was “not a language of meanings, but a mnemonic system – the names of the objects fhyme with standard lines of poetry, and are on aid by which the lines can be recalled”, says Brent Elliott, the Librarian to the Royal Horticultural Society. Frederick Shoberl, editor for The Language of Flowers, asserted the sam in 1839: “Its spirit consists not, as might naturally be supposed, in the connection which fancy may trace between particular ...