http://www.gemsblog.co.uk A simple girl's ravings... Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:00:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The universities minister David Willetts has just announced the UK’s first private university in decades will be created. Immediately there is uproar and negativity for something which in the current economic climate might not be so bad. A private university will mean that more students are given the opportunity to ... http://www.gemsblog.co.uk/2010/07/29/private-education-better-than-no-education/ We live in a review age: when you want to buy something then your first instinct is usually to find out what other people think about it, and draw a conclusion from a pool of varying opinions. Times have indeed changed. With many popular review sites – covering everything, from ... http://www.gemsblog.co.uk/2010/06/21/check-it-out/ I always used to moan that no man would come shopping with me and enjoy it. I thought that was a bad thing and I longed for the day when a man would sweep me off my feet–a man who enjoyed shopping–a man who loved ... http://www.gemsblog.co.uk/2010/05/27/harsh-reality/ People get really funny about checking their front door, don’t they? Is it locked? I mean I locked it three times but seriously, what if I imagined that because I’ve done it so many times in the exact same way that now it just doesn’t even register?Sadly, most people aren’t ... http://www.gemsblog.co.uk/2010/05/11/andrew-king-of-the-goblins/ This blog post is about a serious topic, easily as serious as laser hair removal is to a model. It’s about sitting with your back straight. I know–I know–It sounds really very dull, and it might have been. But would I let you down? I ... http://www.gemsblog.co.uk/2010/04/14/not-taking-no-for-an-answer-anymore-ladies/ I love new scientific discoveries. It’s something I keep completely secret from my girl friends though–It’s not that I’m ashamed of it (I’m sure some of them at least can understand how exciting a new species of animal is–but they might just look at it ... http://www.gemsblog.co.uk/2010/04/08/lizardy-girl/ I am a redhead girl. Such a simple statement, so powerful and easy to understand. You would think that it contains everything, right? But here’s the thing, us true and natural redheads are dying out fast! Slowly but surely, our incredible hair is being phased out and replaced by non ... http://www.gemsblog.co.uk/2010/04/08/be-true/ Every so often, amid the debate of if a green bum bag is better than an orange bum bag between a group of German people, the debate of eating human flesh comes up (if it comes up more than once every five years then I suggest you seriously think about ... http://www.gemsblog.co.uk/2010/03/26/eat-it/ "Would you rather be pretty or clever?” That was the question my female friend posed to me the other week. I was about to open my big fat male mouth without speaking when I chose, instead, to say “Hmm, good question, let me think–” Ten minutes later she asked if ... http://www.gemsblog.co.uk/2010/03/22/debates/ For a long time, at various points in history, we wondered where technology would take us—how it would affect the way we live even the simplest parts of our lives, as well as govern how we ran our businesses. Although some of the inventions seen in sci-fi films are still ... http://www.gemsblog.co.uk/2010/03/19/tech-enigin-style/