Saturday 11 July 2009 7 things at the Princes Risborough festival

  1. Hook a Duck
  2. Temporary Tattoos
  3. Plant Stall
  4. Hot Dog and Burger Van
  5. Tombola
  6. Library Book Sale
  7. Bouncy Castle

Friday 10 July 2009 7 unchecked facts!

  1. Sheep in fact have retractable talons
  2. All birds are in fact shape-shifting Red Kites
  3. When music is buffering in last.fm the DJ is in fact on the toilet
  4. The fire in Dean Street today was in fact caused by the crash landing of an alien spacecraft
  5. Octopuses are in fact closely related to the domestic cat
  6. Facebook was in fact originally launched in 1995 under the name 'Book of Faces' but people weren't ready for it
  7. Kumquat hunting is in fact banned in 22 US states, including Rhode Island where it is a capital offence

Thursday 9 July 2009 7 bloodiest battles on British soil

  1. Iceni vs Romans (AD61) - 80,400 casualties
  2. Battle of Towton (1461) t- 28,000+ casualties
  3. Battle of Bannockburn (1314) - 19,000 casualties
  4. Battle of Lewes (1264) - 10,000+ casualties
  5. Battle of Flodden (1513) - 100,000+ casualties
  6. Battle of Neville's Cross (1346) - 8,000 casualties
  7. Battle of Naseby (1645) - 7,500 casualties

Wednesday 8 July 2009 7 test cricketers

  1. Graham Onions
  2. Stuart Broad
  3. Martin Saggers
  4. Ryan Sidebottom
  5. Gladstone Small
  6. Derek Pringle
  7. Brian Bolus

Tuesday 7 July 2009 7 things I didn't know last month

  1. Spreading sugar on your lawn suppresses weed growth
  2. You can't castle in chess if your king passes through check en route
  3. Spraying soapy water on plants prevents greenfly from landing on them
  4. There is an annual bike festival held just on the outside of our village
  5. The word restaurant comes from the name of a broth that was served during the French revolution
  6. Cutting off the heads of dead flowers causes new ones to grow in their place
  7. The croissant is in fact an Austrian pastry

Monday 6 July 2009 7 things that annoy me about the press

  1. The inability to check even basic facts
  2. The misuse of statistics
  3. Jumping to conclusions
  4. Re-iteration of the same point over and over
  5. Sensationalising everything
  6. The need to attach catchy names to everything (Credit Crunch, Swine Flu)
  7. Seemingly writing to the lowest common denominator

Sunday 5 July 2009 7 sports that have grand slams

  1. Tennis
  2. Curling
  3. NASCAR
  4. Golf
  5. Rugby Union
  6. Real Tennis
  7. Baseball