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We went to Peebro this weekend, and as I’m now on a strict budget (thanks to HSBC), we browsed around some charity shops. I was really impressed with the quality of clothes they had - Oxfam had a couple of nice things and the shop was really well laid-out. The things were reasonably priced too. We actually found a Primark top which was ironic, and the price was about the same as it would have been original. Is this the one way to buy Primark clothes and actually help people?

My best find was in a British Heart Foundation shop - an almost-new Accessorise bag for £6.75! It was completely clean and looked unused, and was about a quarter of the price of new bags. There were also some nice Tshirts and tops from Topshop and H&M. I definitely like the idea of buying from charity shops as it’s ethical and sustainable in several ways: cutting down on the clothes miles used, reducing the amount of waste in tips and contributing money to deserving charities. I recommend it to everyone!

Recently I became fixated on the size of my head compared to my body, which seems like a bizarre thing to consider until you take a look at the number of features in gossip magazines dedicated to the phenomenon of the lollipop head. For those who aren’t aware of this condition (lucky you), it is used to refer to someone who is extremely thin, and therefore has a head which looks disproportionately large compared to their body.

Unfortunately my obsession was of the inverse of the lollipop head - I had seen a photo of myself in New York, and (hopefully) due to the 1932898733 layers I was wearing to keep out the cold, my head looked disproportionately small compared to my body, which caused me an explicably large amount of anxiety. Was this how I appeared to the outside world? Were small children frightened of the girl with the tiny head when I walked past? Sometimes it’s too easy to become obsessed with tiny things that probably go unnoticed by everyone else - you have to recognise that you are being ridiculous, even in your own head, and get over the obsession.

However, for those inumerable future times when I see a bad photo of myself, perhaps I can coin a phrase for the opposite of lollipop head to describe my anxiety to the uncomprehending Boy - anyone for thumbelina head?

We went to Tesco today, like most weeks, to do our weekly shopping. Everything went normally until we were leaving, the security guard stopped us. Slightly confused, we waited to see what he wanted..which turned out to be lecturing us on Jesus Christ. He began to ask us if we “knew Jesus Christ”, then chastising us for buying a trolleyfull of stuff because we were “created by Jesus Christ”. I could not have predicted this, but odd things like this always seem to happen to us!

On another note, I got my Vespa yesterday from Basingstoke. It was a looooong drive but well worth it, I can’t wait to learn how to ride the scooter!

I’ve been doing some research into Web 2.0 tools following a seminar I attended on Tuesday (’The Future of PR Technology’), and I stumbled across StumbleUpon. It’s a great website and software add-on where you choose a few categories (such as Art, Technology, Food), install the program and then click on the button integrated into your browser and you are taken to different websites based on your and other peoples’ interests. It comes across some really fun content and reminds me of when I first started using the Internet more than 10 years ago! The Internet has changed phenomenally since then, and there are so many new tools and developments. Another one I’ve just come across is del.icio.us, a bookmarking tool/website. I’m just getting into using it and can’t see a lot of advantages so far, except that you can access your bookmarks wherever you are, but I may find more as I keep using it!