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My hubby and ‘ve been married for just over 5 years now. However, we married quite quickly after we first met, within 11 months, so we haven’t really known each other for that long. I’m still discovering loads of his hidden talents……..
Thanks to the lovely folks at Fish is the Dish for the gorgeous Scottish Cooked Mussels in Garlic Butter Sauce, which were supplied by the Scottish Shellfish Marketing Group.
I have an Apple TV and for those of you who haven’t heard of one it is NOT actually a TV. It’s a small box that sits beneath my TV and wirelessly connects to my laptop, so I can access all the content I have in ITunes via my TV; movies, music and photos.
I was sent a couple of promo-codes to download Hop and The Adjustment Bureau. If you’re not familiar with downloading movies via ITunes it’s dead easy. Simply go to the ITunes store, search for your movie, you can choose whether to rent or buy, confirm your security details and voilà it will start to download (note: depending on speed of connection this can take a while). It’s really no different from downloading music. I tend to purchase the movies for my daughter as she watches them over and over. However, my husband and I don’t tend to watch movies ourselves more than once so we just rent them.
If you don’t have an Apple TV you can also download movies via your PC or MAC, Iphone, Ipad or games consoles and watch anywhere. I wish I would have downloaded a few movies for our epic flight to Canada in the summer!
I no longer have a lounge scattered with DVDs, in the wrong cases and that have been scratched beyond repair! Plus, it also eliminates the frustration when queuing movies for my daughter as I’m not forced to watch the trailers and can opt to jump straight to the movie.
I can’t emphasize enough how easy it is!
Disclosure: In return for this review I received a ‘Summer Wind-down Package’ which included HOP and The Adjustment Bureau, some film merchandise goody bags for my daughter and a bottle of wine and some chocolates for me.
One of the only good things that came out of the Social Media Course fiasco was crossing paths with the lovely and talented Nikki Pilkington, who’s been helping businesses promote their websites since 1994 and really knows her stuff. She doesn’t like to call herself a Social Media Marketing Expert but I have to say she’s pretty damn clever.
I managed to blag a copy of her e-Book 299 Steps to Blogging Heaven (£10). It’s an easy read, full of great examples, made me laugh and is not riddled with technical jargon. I managed to bomb through it in about 45 minutes, but that doesn’t mean it was light on content; as its jammed packed with loads of useful tips.
I was pleased that I was already doing quite a few of the things she was recommending, but by the time I finished reading it, I had a list as long as my arm of things to do on my blog.
She covers everything from:
If you’re a blogger this is a must read! What are you waiting for? Off you go and get it. I’d love to know what you thought so please do leave a comment.
My daughter isn’t the first child to stick things in places where they shouldn’t go. You may remember the time I had to suck a pea out of her nose but managed to avoid A&E, genius.
Last night she was supposed to be in bed. But we could hear her pitter pattering around upstairs, really didn’t think much about it. We found her whimpering at the top of the stairs. We discovered that she had got into my make-up and then sprayed hairspray in her eyes. In hindsight, it was a bit frightening as she was crying at the top of the stairs and she could’ve easily have fallen down them. After administering basic first aid, I did a quick Google search and learned that hairspray will hurt but won’t cause permanent damage.
Tonight, she has excelled herself!