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Entries To Join The Marmarati

I have entered a competition to win a jar of Marmite!
Before you all laugh, there is something special about this jar, it is extra strong Marmite in a handmade jar, and only 200 of these jars are being made!

To win these jars, I need your help, dear reader.  I need you to vote on the submissions I have given to "join the Marmarati" the higher the votes I get the more chance I have of winning one of these amazing jars of this beautiful dark elixir.

The entries I have submitted are as follows:

http://marmarati.org/galleria/link/marmite-ascii-art - An ASCII art image of the Marmite logo
http://marmarati.org/galleria/link/tower-of-pleaseure - A picture of a pyramid of Marmite jars
http://marmarati.org/galleria/link/marmite-haiku - A Haiku about using Marmite in cooking
http://marmarati.org/galleria/link/marmite-label-in-pencil - A sketch of a Marmite label
http://marmarati.org/galleria/link/marmite-jar-in-felt-tip-pen - Drawing of Marmite jar in felt tip pen
http://marmarati.org/galleria/link/snack-of-the-gods - A picture of Marmite Cashews!
http://marmarati.org/galleria/link/love-marmite-twibbon - Links to my Love Marmite Twibbon!

Please vote these, and please vote them as 10s, that would be awesome!

Anti-Bullying Week.....What Would Percy Do?

This week is Anti Bullying Week, and I thought I'd do an entry about Cyber Bullying and what you can do to protect yourself.

If you are on Twitter you may have seen a character on there called @PercyThePigeon who tells a story which has an anti bullying message...the general theme is "What Would Percy Do?" and the answer to that is tell someone you can trust, so they can help you and not to suffer in silence.

As someone who was bullied a lot at school (and in a few workplaces as well) I thought I'd help by doing a blog entry that was about keeping safe in cyberspace...

• MOBILE PHONES

1. If you get a nasty text/video from someone, don't reply to it no matter how hurt or angry it makes you feel.  There are numbers you can contact for your sevice provider (ie Vodafone, O2, Orange etc.) in regards to this.  Check their websites for more details.
2. Be careful who you give your mobile phone number to, only give it out to people you know you can trust.
3. Don't leave your mobile phone lying about unattended around people you do not know or trust, they could get your number, or numbers of other people too.
4. If you do get abusive texts/messages, if you are able to save them to a folder on your phone as proof and tell someone you can trust and will be able to help you.

• INTERNET

1. DO NOT GIVE OUT PERSONAL DETAILS ONLINE!  Yeah, I know it sounds like something so obvious to say, but you would be surprised how many people do!  People can take your details and use them, pretending to be you, and get you in trouble.
2. If you are using an instant messenger, or sites like Facebook or Twitter and you get abuse messages from people, you can block them.
3. Don't reply to abusive messages, you could say something that you regret and that could make the situation much worse.
4. Bully is quite serious, but if it gets really bad try to print off the offensive messages, and if they are on a school network let the teacher who runs it know.

There is a general rule of thumb, and I know it's not easy, but try to ignore the comments.  Most times comments are made so a person will respond, but if the comments are ignored for the most part the people responsible will get bored and leave you alone.

The one thing though, even if you ignore the comments, let someone you cant trust know that someone is sending you horrible messages, it's not right, you don't deserve it and you should never suffer in silence.

Those little things can make someone's day!

Well, today has been a good day...
It's Haunted Rock Cake's birthday today, and I got some cool presents for her over the weekend!
On Saturday, we went into Next in town and I bought her some purple suede boots, I also got her a NEON PINK wooly hat to go with her fleece (I'll try and upload a pic of her wearing it soon!).
I then went shopping in Sainsbury's yesterday..and as she is a big fan of Henry Hoover (actually she wanted the pink Hetty but I said no!) so I bought her a little battery operated one!
However, the best thing I did started at Midnight. I wrote a message on my Twitter account asking people to say Happy Birthday to @HauntedRockCake and it went pretty well as a lot of people did do just that including comedians Jason Manford & Mark Watson! Thanks to eveyone who sent Haunted Rock Cake a message, I think this was much more fun than a birthday card!
Was great to see her face when she got in from work and saw all the messages!

Testing my new mobile

So, I've got hold of a new phone and thought that I'd to an entry from the phone!
I've bought a Nokia 5800 and it's a pretty good piece of kit, with the capability to watch movies listen to music, use WiFi, check maps...it does loads of stuff this can do!
Well, with any luck this will publish when I hook to WiFi later...