Friday, 4 December 2009

Scharffen Berger Chocolate

Scharffen Berger chocolate is a luxurious chocolate brand, originally made in California using imported chocolate making equipment from Europe. The different Scharffen Berger chocolate types can be used to make a whole range of delicious chocolate recipes which are higher in cacao content and lower in sugar and saturated fats. This site includes a number of video recipes, detailing very precise preparation instructions.

Scharffen Berger Chocolate

Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Charity Event for Yorkhill Children's Hospital Raises Eight Hundred Pounds

Last night - Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 - saw a charity event held in aid of Yorkhill Children's Hospital in Glasgow at The Horseshoe Bar in Motherwell. The event was but one part of The Five Dollar Vacation which has been documented on this blog previously and is a worldwide charity project designed to raise as much money as possible for a great many deserving charities.

I am delighted to be able to report that the event raised a total of £800.00 for The Royal Hospital for Sick Children (Yorkhill) and hopefully sets the scene for further charity events which will take place in this respect. The full details of the night can be accessed via the link below.

The Five Dollars Go to Charity

Sunday, 15 November 2009

Featured Guest Lensmaster - Sandy Cruckshanks

Sandy Cruckshanks is one of the newest members on Squidoo and I thought that as I haven't featured a Guest Lensmaster on this blog for a while, he would make an excellent choice.

Sandy has created his first lens on Property to Let in the UK and it features lots of very valuable advice for landlords and tenants alike. As one who has personally been stung as a tenant in this respect, I wish I had read it some time ago. The link below is to Sandy's lens.

Property to Let in the UK

Sunday, 1 November 2009

The Five Dollar Vacation Takes in Glasgow

The Five Dollar Vacation is a charity project which began in the Spring of 2009 and will conclude on December 31st, 2009. It has seen five US Dollars tour much of Europe and even beyond in an attempt to raise as much money for a huge variety of charities as possible.

The site linked to below is a sub-site of The Five Dollar Vacation and is presently relating their adventures in Glasgow on an ongoing basis.

The Five Dollars' Glasgow Vacation

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Healthy Vegetarian Recipes

Healthy vegetarian recipes are often perceived as being dull, bland and tasteless. The reality is that this need not be the case and it is entirely possible to prepare healthy vegetarian recipes which will appeal to vegetarians and omnivores alike. All that is required is a little imagination, a little innovation and a little experimentation.

Healthy Vegetarian Recipes

Friday, 16 October 2009

Healthy Lamb Recipes

Lamb is a delicious meat and one of the most tender we can eat if it is cooked properly. Healthy lamb recipes, however, have to take account of the way in which we cook the lamb and what we add to it if we are not to spoil its nutritional value.

Lamb may not quite be as versatile as such as chicken but there are still a great many healthy lamb recipes which we can prepare in a variety of different ways.

Healthy Lamb Recipes

Tuesday, 13 October 2009

What is Thanksgiving?

Any Americans or Canadians reading this post may be forgiven for thinking that I must be living in some form of timewarp. The reality is, however, that Thanksgiving is an exclusively North American celebration in the particular form in which it is celebrated and there are hundreds of millions of people around the world who have no idea whatsoever what it symbolises, or even of its existence.

The site linked to below is therefore designed to give all we non-North Americans an insight in to the origins and the meaning of Thanksgiving.

What is Thanksgiving?"

Monday, 5 October 2009

Coltness Primary School - My First School

Coltness Primary School is located in Wishaw, North Lanarkshire. It was my first school and I attended it from August 1974 until June 1981. Regrettably, I recently learned that Coltness Primary School is to close in 2010 to make way for a new school which will be built upon the existing site.

I deemed that it was therefore appropriate - being in the line of work I am in - to construct online a permanent memorial to the school and to its pupils and staff of yesteryear. The site linked to below is what I have come up with.

Coltness Primary School

Saturday, 26 September 2009

Gordon Hamilton - Internet Marketer


Gordon Hamilton first engaged in Internet marketing when he lived in Edinburgh and continued to very successfully develop the process following an enforced move to London. After returning to his native Wishaw in Lanarkshire, he took some time to develop his skills and tactics and fully adapt them to ensure that he can now very successfully perform Internet marketing on behalf of any business from the comfort of his PC, with or without face to face contact included.

Gordon Hamilton continues to provide Internet marketing services to local businesses by visiting them in person, taking the required photographs and conducting the necessary interviews. He now, however, has the facility to every bit as effectively provide a quality Internet marketing service to virtually any business with e-mail access. This means that Gordon Hamilton can very likely help you and your business with Internet marketing - at more than competitive prices - wherever you happen to be on the planet.

Click on the link below for further details and prices:

Gordon Hamilton - Internet Marketer

Thursday, 10 September 2009

The Five Dollar Vacation - A Worldwide Charity Project With a Difference

The Five Dollar Vacation is a charity project which I instigated in April 2009. It will run in an active sense until December 1st, 2009.

The Five Dollar Vacation is about sending five, one dollar bills on a tour around Europe, with the help of many willing participants to whom I am extremely grateful, and attempting in a variety of different ways to arrange as much cash for charity as possible in the process.

The Five Dollar Vacation has already taken in some wonderful destinations - such as Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France - and is set to see many more prior to its conclusion.

When their vacation is over, The Five Dollars will go their separate ways, each being made to represent an admirable human quality in a unique way.

I very much hope that you will check out The Five Dollar Vacation via the link below and lend support to this venture in any way you can.

The Five Dollar vacation

Sunday, 6 September 2009

Healthy Shrimp Recipes

Shrimp - or prawns, which is but one of the other names by which they are known - are probably the most commonly eaten shellfish in the world. This is perhaps due to the widespread areas in which they are found. They form a big part of Asian and Australasian cooking as well as being popular in both Europe and North America.

Like most shellfish and even fish, it is imperative when cooking shrimp that they are not over-cooked. If this is the case, they will assume a rubber-like texture and be most unpalatable. Striking the right balance in this way is not always easy but with due care and diligence, the shrimp can be cooked to perfection.

The Squidoo lens linked to below examines a variety of different ways for serving shrimp (including the delicious recipe pictured to the above right) and hopefully provides some new ideas for enjoying these delicious crustaceans to the full.

Healthy Shrimp Recipes

Secret Restaurant Recipes

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Saturday, 5 September 2009

A Guide to Alcohol

If you are a partaker of alcohol, you may very well be interested in learning how certain spirits such as whisky, vodka and rum came in to being and have evolved over the centuries.

That is what the Squidoo lens linked to below explores:

A Guide to Alcohol

If you or someone you know is particularly partial to alcohol, the t-shirt or one of the many other products featured on the online shop linked to below may be just their thing. The shop sells everything from t-shirts, to calendars, to mugs and many more items besides.

Click on the link and - if appropriate - amend your currency details from the pull-down menu at the top centre of the page.

The Exorcist

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Gordon Hamilton - Home Page on the Web

Gordon Hamilton has written and continues to write on a great many more subjects than you will find featured so far on this Blog. It therefore made sense that he create for himself a Home Page, where he has collated at least all of the principal topics upon which he writes and a guide to the sites upon which he does so. Below you will find the link to this page.

Read what he has written about the Business of Writing itself, Marketing and Advertising, the healthier eating aspects in particular on Food and Drink, tips for taking care of your Personal Finance and lots, lots more!

Gordon Hamilton - Home Page

Wednesday, 3 June 2009

Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh

Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags are to be found in Edinburgh City Centre, forming part of the Royal Park of Holyrood. They are an extinct volcano and a glacial rock formation, respectively. There are many fabulous walks to be had around and over Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags and as can be seen from the Squidoo lens linked to below, some of the views are spectacular.

Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh

Thursday, 21 May 2009

How to Attract and Impress Beautiful Women

I should perhaps begin here by pointing out that I don't have any formal training on the machinations of how to attract and impress beautiful women. The advice contained upon this Squidoo lens is based upon extensive study and experience over a number of years only. The author cannot therefore be deemed liable for its inexplicable failure to have the desired effect.

It is often reported that the best way to attract and impress beautiful women is to make them laugh. This is of course excellent advice and will work on a lot of occasions. I, however, have a lot more suggestions to share with all you frustrated men out there!

Enjoy...

How to Attract and Impress Beautiful Women