Santa Maria Disaster

Belated though this is, my thoughts and deepest sympathies go out to those who lost their lives in the nightclub in Santa Maria.
The horrific scenes of escape attempts are truly hallowing, and for those who survived, that night will most likely stay with them forever.
I also offer my condolences to the families of those 231 young lives, who must be going through such hell at losing someone who had so much more life to give.

As someone who has recently reached clubbing age myself, with many friends who are students, it is very frightening to see such things, and how easily they happened.

Tighter fire regulations have been called for in Brazil, and I believe this should apply worldwide too. One extra fire door could have saved so many of those lives.

Rest in Peace.

Postsecret of the Week - I couldn't choose!

This one reminds me of a guy I saw on 'The Undateables', he was lovely!

 

And this one just breaks my heart

Colour Pop Heels

I would just love to have all my heels in every colour, a different pair for each outfit! Colourful heels are by far the best, here is a selection of my favourites!

One for every day of the week!

 



These bows make these blue shoes adorable!

 

Why settle for one bright colour when you can have two!

Blue with ruffles. Sexy and bright!

 

 

These Kurt Geiger heels scream Greek Goddess! I love them!

 

Postsecret of the Week

I have spent years trying to convince my little sister she should just be herself, because the people whose opinions matter wont care, and the people who care, well their opinion just doesn't matter. Be youself, the weirdos are WAY more fun!

Snow Fun

How is it that on a week in which it snows in the UK there appears to be no other news. Leading up to the appointed day of snow there is major focus on the weather reports, often as the main story, followed up with reports from gritting depots, will there be enough? Will it be gritted in time?

Once it snows we get the constant report after report on traffic disruption, snowfall region by region and the mandatory 'cute' pictures of children in the snow, snowmen and pets struggling with the weather.

Do we not have anything better to talk about? Is there not more important world news stories going on? If they reported to this extent every time it snowed in countries such as Finland they would not get round to anything else. This weather is not headline news. Maybe it could be the third or fourth piece, but should we not be focusing more on the Armenian hostage situation, or Lance Armstrong's prolific drug taking, even the devastating fire at my local pub.

Sorry to be a bah humbug but snow should not take a priority over actual life and death.

Call me Dorothy, but I've got a Thing for Red Shoes

I LOVE all heels, but for some reason I have a special place in my heart (and shoe closet), for red shoes. The glamour, the brightness, they are certainly something special.So put on your red shoes and dance the blues!

I think I am in love! These are so sexy!

Classic but oh-so-hot!



See they aren't all heels! Even red ballet shoes are stunning!

 These bows are infinitely cute! 

Studs AND bows! Naughty but nice ;)

A little bit of leapord makes these shoes quirky and brilliant

 



 I know I'm not the only one, so please enjoy these pictures <3

Beefburgers? Sounds like Horse Crap to me!

Today a shocking story hit the news. Some Tesco beef burgers were found to have up to 25% horse meat in. This has triggered a mexican wave of denial throughout the supply chain and will no doubt be very harmful for Tesco's reputation.

Now, does it make me a bad person to say I don't particularly care. As long as the horse meat was sanitary and not diseased, does it really make much difference? The French regularly eat horse meat, as do many other nationalities. The meat in burgers is so ground up anyway you wouldn't have tasted anything different. 

Horses may well be cuter than cows, but in my opinion this does not make a special case for them. Dogs are even cuter and are considered a delicacy in the East. As humans we are top of the food chain, and act in an appropriate manner for this position.

The main issue here, in my opinion, is the secrecy. If Tesco wished to put horse meat in their burgers and labelled it, not many people would mind, and many would happily try it. However, as they were labelled as beef burgers it has caused a great uproar not least for Tesco themselves. It is also dangerous, for example for those with allergies may have had a reaction.

This did however remind me of a funny story. My parents once visited a restaurant in France which had a menu in both English and French, On the English side one item was labelled 'Beef Burger' on the other 'Hamburger du Cheval' French for horse) This seems to be the same as Tesco, just on a smaller scale.

Tesco: Horse's Friend or Foe?