Categories: just-life
Date: 01 December 2005 17:11:46
Or is it.......?? Not Yet according to the Palace or Westminster, well, not so much Advent, but time to put up the decorations. Nice to think that there are some people somewhere who think that it's coming round far too early.......
Now, I'm wondering if I'm the only person who's having this problem. Now I'm starting to think about what to buy people for Christmas I've been doing some looking around. And I've found some nice stuff on a few of the internet sites that I look at. Will they actually let me order anything.....??? "Put that in my basket," I ask, "No" is the reply. It makes things a bit more difficult. Another site that had stuff I'd like not only doesn't have the ability to order stuff online, but doesn't actually tell you how much the stuff costs!!!!
Though when the first thing I looked at, thinking, "this looks very pretty" read the description which said; "crafted in 18 caret white gold with pave set diamonds totalling 3 ct" I suspected it might be a bit out of my price range.....though very nice. (ok, just found their catalogue online.... no prices in there either) Georg Jensen
And as the Office of National Statistics is going to become independant here are just a few that are interesting.......
38.4 - median age of people in Britain
1/3 - proportion of men over 85 who own a mobile phone
189 - average number of miles walked per person per year in Great Britain
411,569 - people in England and Wales who speak, read and write in Welsh
10 - the number of years that JACK has been favourite name for baby boys
50.7% - of the adult population who are married
2/5 - proportion of men who do not iron
4 - number of dentists per 10,000 people in the UK
42.2% - births that were outside mariage
10% - men aged 30-34 in England that live with their parents
81,300 - more 20-something women than there are men in England and Wales
390,000 - people who put "Jedi" under religion in census