The London of today has been very much on show through the 2012 Olympics – but here’s a place to look at the past. Victorian London – the London of Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper and peasoup fog is all here!

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If you’re a cyclist on any of the roads in our nation – you MUST read the safety tips and rules on this all-important site.

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I ICE-d my phone as soon as I heard about this great idea. Simply put ICE which stands for In Case of Emergency in the name section of the person you want alerted in an emergency, and the emergency services will know immediately who to contact. Simple, easy and oh, so sensible.

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GFlora is an online encyclopedia of houseplants and really a great resource.
Whether you live in Portland Oregon, or Portland Maine – you’ll find the best plants for your home and climate.

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One of the best parody websites, with wonderful merchandise. If you’re down or depressed – here’s a place guaranteed to make you smile.

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Here’s a destination where there’s almost every fact or figure you might want to know about any country, and quite a few you probably never heard of. One of those sites you start looking through, and can’t tear yourself away from.

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Just about anyone in the nation who is over the age of 8 can tell you where they were on September 11, 2001. And this site is an archive – not of professional reporters, but rather the email, the blogs and the posts and other reminiscences of ordinary people, like us, who will never forget what they saw and experienced that day.

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This is a site that gives you details of all the airline plans, hotels and cars – for your frequent flyer plans.
If you fly a lot for business, or even for pleasure, this site is very useful and one to bookmark.

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The home of the British Library in the UK, this site provides ordinary non-scholarly folk – like you and me – access to some of the most glorious ullustrated manuscripts of the past centuries. The latest masterpiece – The St. Cuthbert Gospel – the Gospel of St. John – the earliest known intact European book, dating from the 7th century. Fabulously well preserved, the pages look as though they were inked very recently – and not 1400 years ago!

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Art so Bad it makes you want to cry. This is a virtual gallery of some of the most awful art that’s out there. Not scribbles, or the stuff that’s on sale at roadside hotels on Sundays – but real paint on real canvas that someone obviously thought was good…… Think again – and for a good laugh head over to the Museum of Bad Art. You’ll be glad you did!

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