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Remember when Bingo was played in a drafty old hall…?

Posted under Entertainment by Wendy on June 28th, 2008 11:49 am

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I certainly do, in fact, just up until about five years back the only place you played a game of bingo was in a community hall and the players were usually of a ’senior’ nature.

But it’s all changed now and online bingo has taken this hugely popular social pastime, modernised it and enabled countless people to participate in a game from the comfort of their own home. So, let’s take a look at today’s new bingo.

BingoPort offers not just the opportunity to play the game but comprehensively reviews a wide range of sites allowing the player to choose which selection appeals to them the most covering…

* No Deposit/Deposit Bonus sites

* Reviews of at least 33 different Bingo sites based in the UK

* A forum for players to not only pick up tips and share experiences but which also offers prize winning incentives

* Options for those who wish to participate in free bingo 

* Monitoring of games and players; and loads of info regarding bonus cash, prizes, free cards…

What appeals about this site is that it is visually attractive and truely interactive - very much like playing bingo ‘the old way’ - the only difference is you are online. Soon as you arrive on site you can log in and pretty much start playing. While I do find the site very attractive, colourful and inviting - there is a slight overload of bonus offers which continue as you scroll down - but if this is what you are looking for then you will love it.

If you like to stay updated you will like the newsletter format plus if you are a fan of ITV’s Bingo Night Live  latest newsletter tells you how you can get involved online and at home.

If you like your gaming sites visual, informative and easy to navigate then this player-friendly site will very much appeal to any bingo fan.

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Popularity: 24% [?]

Life was hard for a Bay City Roller fan

Posted under Entertainment by Wendy on June 26th, 2008 11:22 am

I was reading just recently how one of the members of that defunct boy-band Blue is now engaged to, and expecting a baby with, a longtime devoted fan. And how did this lady snare her idol…? in a very modern day way - she bombarded him with racy pics of herself on his MySpace page until he succumbed to temptation.

Boy, did her efforts pay off!

It was very different when I was a ‘fan’; as a very young girl (and I do mean ‘very’) my heart belonged to none other than the Bay City Rollers - those tartan terrors from Scotland and I idolised them just as millions of other very young girls did back in the 1970’s.

Of course we all were convinced that each one of us was absolutely destined to marry either Les, Eric, Derek, Alan or Woody - the only depressing prospect was that millions of other very young girls all thought the same thing.

We all wrote cute letters to our favourite Roller; if you liked Woody (as most of the fans did) you knew you had write an especially cute letter to him if yours was to convince him that you were meant for him; if you liked Les you were a bit of a rebel as Les was the bad boy of the group ( or so they said ); if you liked Alan or Derek (the brothers) you were normally one of the older category of fans - at least 15 or 16.

But if you liked Eric - as I did - then you were my worst enemy. I wrote letters to Eric, via one of those dubious fan clubs which abounded back then - they took your parents cheque for $10.00 and all you got back was a poster…and nothing else. But you did not care - you were official and you just knew Eric was actually getting your letters placed in his hand and was reading them and thinking what a great girl you were.

We all thought it was sooo cute that Eric and Woody shared a house; of course, they wrote their songs together so why not?…

Yep, I went to the concert in Sydney in ‘76 - I screamed, I cried, I even tried to faint like all those fans at the concerts in England were supposed to have done. But all we got out of the experience was a case of tinnitus for a week due to the deafening screams and a piece of tartan off the floor which someone else had dropped.

I never heard a note they played, my beloved Eric resembled a zombie on stage and the worst thing of all…he never even looked at me…not once!!  big let down…I wrote and told him I would be holding a tartan teddy bear aloft to signal it was me in the crowd but he completely ignored me!

And I held my teddy bear much higher than all those hundreds of other girls did!

A few years down the line and I had grown out of Eric and the ‘Rollers so when I read somewhere that Eric and Woody were still playing house together I consoled myself with the thought that maybe he wasn’t such a great catch after all…

Shang a lang!

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Popularity: 24% [?]

Links to your fave TV shows, films and other great stuff

Posted under Entertainment by Wendy on June 21st, 2008 5:24 pm

There’s now a ‘one-stop’ site for all those fave TV shows of yours - as well as all the latest and hottest films.

Put this address down in your ‘Favourites’ folder now - TV Links

For those of you who like to watch films online there’s advice on how to download so you can get them to run faster; there’s free giveaways as well as banners to place on your site so that your readers can access all the latest TV shows, films and music videos.

The banners look great and will enhance your site as well. For Anime fans - and who isn’t these days? - they are working on links to all the sites which feature this popular series so if you know of any make sure you let them know.

My favourite show is Everybody Loves Raymond; I know, the series is finished and into the re-run stage but this is the site I would have gone to when I wanted to keep up to date with all the episodes.

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