Speciality Foods

www.hardtofindfoods.co.uk offers a large range of speciality and gourmet foods that you probably won’t find on the shelves of your local supermarket. The list of foods includes products from around the world, and you can fill your cupboards with speciality herbs and spices, oils, vinegars, pickles and preservatives. So whatever you’re looking for, let this website find it for you!

Pozzitive

This promo site for production company Pozzitive Television describes itself as an “online encyclopaedia of British comedy”.

www.pozzitive.co.uk is the address. While it’s too focused on its own ‘talent’ to justify that claim, there’s still plenty of interesting content to browse.

This includes behind-the-scenes photos from Pozzitive TV shows like Coogan’s Run and Dinnerladies, extracts from radio programmes like the 99p Challenge and an online store selling DVDs and videos of popular series. Design-wise, the perpetually rolling photos and links prove distracting rather than enticing, but it’s worth a visit.

Lets with Pets

Take a look at www.letswithpets.org.uk and you will see that This brilliantly named website, launched by the Dogs Trust, hopes to encourage landlords to accept tenants with pets.

Lets with Pets provides a wealth of information on renting privately as an animal owner, such as explaining how to get a reference for your pet and a general guide to pet care. While it’s great that this attractive site caters for pet owners, landlords and letting agents, it’s a shame there’s no forum for these parties to connect with each other directly.

Job Blues

It’s Monday morning and there’s nothing worse than starting your week by dragging yourself back into a job you can’t stand. Whether it’s the work, the environment, your boss or the hours, log on to www.careershifters.org, and say it’s time for a change! Here you can find help, advice and job vacancies, and who knows, you could find that perfect job.

Feeling Fabulous

If you’re a bit down and in need of an emotional boost, why not check out www.feeling-fab.com. This site promises to make you feel fabulous by helping you ‘change your life in just eight minutes’. It may sound like a tall order, but for a one-off fee of £10, you’ll get 24 eight-minute audio tracks that attempt to inspire you to feel good about yourself. And to make you feel even better, £1 from each subscription will be donated to the charity of your choice.

Exist For Eternity

If you like the thought of leaving something behind when you finally shuffle off this mortal coil, then www.posterity.com is a website for you. On here you can store your photos, thoughts and writings for eternity, so your ancestors can find out all about your life. The site is free to join and will stay online forever, accessible by password for anyone that wants to take a look.

Tuned In

Are you convinced you’re a great singer but other people think you’re tone deaf? Find out once and for all at www.bored.com/musictests. This site allows you to compare different pieces of music, and will then tell you how tone deaf you are. But don’t get too upset with your score as even the best musicians rarely get more than 80% correct!

Colour Quiz

If you love personality quizzes you might want to check out www.colorquiz.com, which claims that the type of colours you go for reveals a lot about your personality. Simply click on the blocks of colour in your order of preference and a detailed anaylisis of your personality will appear – although how it can tell that from coloured blocks we’ll never know!

Perfect Pick-Ups!

If your chat-up lines haven’t evolved past ‘do you come here often?’, it may be about time you got some help. Check out pickuphelp.com where a helpful list of pick-up lines can be found to come to your rescue. On the other hand, if chat-up lines aren’t your style, the website won’t fail to provide cringe-worthy content that’s guaranteed to give you a whole lunch break worth of entertainment!

Annoying Things

If for some reason you want to get on the wrong side of your friends, family and colleagues then it would be a good idea to look at bored.com/getannoyed. On this site there are thousands of ways to upset people, including becoming a mime, pushing all the elevator buttons and not wearing deodorant!

National Allotments Week

National Allotment Week begins today, and runs until 17th August. It’s a week to promote awareness and availability of allotments both locally and nationally, as well as showing the public and local authorities the strength of support and interest for the heritage of allotment culture. The National Society of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners wants to encourage as many gardeners to support the drive as possible. To find out more visit www.nsalg.org.uk.

Junk Food

In this day and age where everyone is obsessed with healthy eating, admitting you like junk food once in a while can make you feel like a social outcast. But if you’re craving some naughty treats, check out www.junkfoodnews.net. Feast your eyes on the world’s largest smoothie, the longest hot dog in the world and a car made completely from cheddar cheese!

Organically Good

If you’re into organic produce, check out www.organicgarden.com, where you can find out information on how to grow your own or where to buy it. It gives practical advice for small-scale producers of organic foods, and even tasty recipes on what to do with all the fruit and veg you will harvest.

Backwards Talk

If you’ve ever wanted to know what the world sounds like backwards, try out www.talkbackwards.com. Here you can enter music tracks to see if there are subliminal messages hidden inside the lyrics when played backwards, or what amusing word occurs when your name is spelt the wrong way round. You can even upload your own voice to hear what you sound like when talking backwards.

Nagging Notes

www.passiveaggressivenotes.com is a site dedicated to all those ‘helpful’ notes, busybody emails and stroppy memos sent to ‘all’ in the workplace. From notes asking people not to use all the teabags, or emails about keeping desks tidy, they should raise a knowing smile in everyone who’s ever worked in an office or lived in communal housing. You can also submit your own example passive aggressive notes to make everyone else smile!

Dig Holes

Have you ever wondered where you would end up if you dug a tremendously huge hole through the centre if the earth? Well you can find out if you visit bored.com/digholes. Find any location on the planet and the website will calculate where you would end up. It’s wishful thinking, but it would certainly make Australia much easier to visit!

Food Fun

If you’ve got a taste for fine food (or you’re desperately bored) take a look at judgemylunch.com where you can view an array of some of the finest and some of the foulest food, and judge for yourself on a ranking system that goes from ‘yuk’ to ‘yum’. But be warned, the content of the website could make you very hungry!

TV Take

www.lowculture.co.uk is a British website that offers a different take on what’s happening on telly. From reality and talent shows like ‘X-Factor’ and ‘Big Brother’ to entertainment series like ‘Heroes’ and ‘Doctor Who’, this site offers a unique spin on proceedings. The message board also has various categories for users to participate in, including soaps and movie culture.

Park Life

It’s often said that being green begins in the home, but if you’re concerned about the state of the green spaces around your home, then go to www.greenstat.org.uk. This is an online forum allowing residents of areas across the UK the opportunity to comment on the state of their local park, and puts pressure on the authorities to do something about it.

Celebed Out

If you like watching how the mighty are fallen, and the glow of celebrity can quickly be tarnished, head over to www.avenue11.com. This entertainment website keeps abreast of celebrity ups and downs with an up-to-date news and gossip section, in addition to movies and music, where you can watch all the latest celeb clips and interviews.