I love money. I love everything to do with money. I love banks. I love the smell of banks. I love the people who work in banks, and how they smell as well. I love fast cars and leather seats. I really love fast Italian cars with leather seats. I also enjoy gambling. I like betting on sports. I enjoy roulette. I Love casinos; the atmosphere, the people, the sense of anticipation, the way everybody who works there calls you sir. All of these things are integral to being rich. When you’re rich banks pay you a lot of interest and the people who work there are nice to you. When you’re rich Italian super cars are the norm, and leather comes as standard. Being rich really helps! What’s the best way to get rich? In my opinion the best way of becoming rich is to play, and play big. What’s the biggest game to play, poker? No. Roulette? No. Then what? lotto. The easiest, cheapest and quickest way to become rich in my eyes is to pick the lottery winning numbers, do that and you’re guaranteed to be rich!

When is the last time you bought a book? And I don't mean an iBook, a Kindle book or some other sort of digital book, I mean a real paperback or hardback book. I've bought a couple in the past few months, but both of them were cheap either in a charity shop or on eBay. The only books I buy these days in physical copies are photography books where the images are important. I don't have a kindle, but I'm hoping someone might buy me one for Christmas as it'd be ideal for me. I'm always finding new inventive ways to read in this digital age. I buy digital books and read them on-the-go on my iPhone, it's so easy and instant; as soon as I decide that I want to read a certain book because I heard someone talking about it, read a good review of it or get recommended it by a friend. I've been reading books on my Nintendo DS recently, I basically just upload the pdfs onto my r4 3ds and then open them up as documents, it's a good way of reading on the go, and it doesn't drain your phone battery so much! Photo: Simply Bike (Flickr)

Blue is often used as a national colour. In Italy, azure, a light blue, is the national colour as the former reigning family, the House of Savoy, had it as their livery colour. The national sports colour for India is blue, a colour used to denote secularism. Blue is the national colour on the flags of numerous countries which are surrounded by water, whether it be seas or oceans, such as Australia. This interpretation was probably not what was in mind when it was chosen however. In Argentina, El Salvador, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Micronesia, Nicaragua, Scotland, and Somalia, blue and white are the national colours. In ancient Portugal, blue and white were also the national colours. Blue and white are also the colours of the United Nations. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Uruguay, and Kosovo have blue, yellow and white as their national colours. The gu10 led has no national colours sadly! Estonia uses blue, black and white as their national colours, whilst Kazakhstan, Sweden, Palau, Ukraine, and Barbados use blue and yellow.

One of the National Lottery Funders is the Arts Council England which supports a wide range of artistic activities from literature to digital art, photography to music, theatre to crafts, and dance to carnival. A whopping £0.85 billion will be invested by the National Lottery to create wonderful artistic experiences for as many people as possible across the UK between 2011 and 2015. An example of the projects funded by the Arts Council England was ‘Operation Oliver’ which commissioned New Forest-based theatre company Forest Forge to produce two theatre shows. The shows toured around Hampshire primary schools and libraries teaching children about work houses and Dickens’s life. The Associate Director of Forest Forge, David Haworth, who wrote and directed ‘Operation Oliver’, said; “The play looked at the real workhouses, but we used Oliver Twist as a reference to make it accessible to children. They wanted us to those stories of life inside, but the workhouses were quite gruesome, particularly the Andover, where they forced all the children and adults to crush bones. It was later discovered that some of the bones were human”.

A fantastic way to save money is to re-evaluate your weekly food shop. As the supermarket takes a significant portion of your monthly outgoings, it is essential to ensure you are not giving it more than it deserves. Supermarkets dedicate a large amount of money and time into devising methods to lure customers into spending more money than they need to. Obviously it is in their interests. How about utilising a voucher code to get money off your shop? A great deal of supermarkets accept vouchers. The most fool-proof method for avoiding a shock at the checkout is to make a shopping list. That way you are not enticed by offers for things you do not need, you simply buy what you planned on. Do not be fooled into thinking that the supermarket is the only place where you can buy your food! It is a sad trend that people are shopping less and less in markets. There are so very many perks to shopping in markets and cost-effectiveness is just one of them. Often the food has been subject to a great deal less chemicals, you are helping small producers and vendors rather than massive corporate ones, and there is a wonderful atmosphere that Tesco simply cannot boast of having.