Discount Binoculars

I have been working hard on my Binoculars website lately and it seems to be paying off with the amount of visitors up buy just over 87% for the month of June as compared to May and this in turn is converting into an equal increase in sales.

One of the most recent features that I have added is a page where you can quickly compare discounted binoculars, these are real discounts on binoculars found on either Amazon, Binoculars.com, Eagle Optics, Optics Planet or Jessops here in the UK.

I think that it helps users of my site quickly check to see what is available at a discounted price and so far according to my analytics, it is being used a lot which is great.

Leica Binoculars
Also new to the site is a page on Leica Binoculars - not cheap, but definitely some of the best quality binoculars out there.

Skinny Blonde Looses Bikini

... thought that title may get your attention!

Kooler Box - Jou Moer

Too Good...

Fledgling Blue Tit

Just saved this little guy from the jaws of my nasty cat! It had obviously just fledged and so was an easy target. I got it back onto a tree near the nest and it's parents are now feeding it again so all is good.

The species is a blue tit and I took the photo with my Panasonic FZ18, the older version of the Panasonic DMC-FZ28 with a 1x7 Tele Converter attached.

Bark at the Moon - Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt

I just love the way unplanned marketing works sometimes, sales of this Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt went up by 2,300% after a spate of ironic reviews went viral. The t-shirt is listed on Amazon.com, where the general public can write reviews on any product being sold.

The first review gave the shirt five stars, saying it "Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women" but "cannot see wolves with arms crossed".

This then prompted hundreds of others to write ironic reviews and as of today there are now 449 customer reviews of this T-shirt.

One of the most popular review which 5720 have found helpful was written by B. Govern "Bee-Dot-Govern" of New Jersey:

"This item has wolves on it which makes it intrinsically sweet and worth 5 stars by itself, but once I tried it on, that's when the magic happened. After checking to ensure that the shirt would properly cover my girth, I walked from my trailer to Wal-mart with the shirt on and was immediately approached by women. The women knew from the wolves on my shirt that I, like a wolf, am a mysterious loner who knows how to 'howl at the moon' from time to time (if you catch my drift!). The women that approached me wanted to know if I would be their boyfriend and/or give them money for something they called mehth. I told them no, because they didn't have enough teeth, and frankly a man with a wolf-shirt shouldn't settle for the first thing that comes to him.

I arrived at Wal-mart, mounted my courtesy-scooter (walking is such a drag!) sitting side saddle so that my wolves would show. While I was browsing tube socks, I could hear aroused asthmatic breathing behind me. I turned around to see a slightly sweaty dream in sweatpants and flip-flops standing there. She told me she liked the wolves on my shirt, I told her I wanted to howl at her moon. She offered me a swig from her mountain dew, and I drove my scooter, with her shuffling along side out the door and into the rest of our lives. Thank you wolf shirt.

Pros: Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women
Cons: Only 3 wolves (could probably use a few more on the 'guns'), cannot see wolves when sitting with arms crossed, wolves would have been better if they glowed in the dark."

Other classics include:

"Unfortunately I already had this exact picture tattooed on my chest, but this shirt is very useful in colder weather. "

"WON'T PLAY ON MY CD PLAYER & WHEN I EMAILED THE DUDE HE SAID I WAS A NUT. I"M LIKE, WTF MAN EVERYONE ALWAYS SAYS THAT EVEN GRANDMA & MR CHRISTIE FROM UP THE STREET WHO LOOKS OVER THE FENCE BUT IT CAME WITH A PRETTY COOL SHIRT"

"Look, you can find a bunch of different wolf T-shirts on the market, but this is THE one to get. You get three wolves plus one moon. More realistic than the three moons plus one wolf model. Just thinking about this T-shirt and its wolves-howling-at-the-moon motif makes me want to ... well ... go outside and holler at the moon! It's THAT good."

Check out the Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt on Amazon.

Live Giro d'Italia

I have just found this excellent website, Universal Sport that will be streaming every stage of this years Giro d'Italia live on the web and is open to view from anywhere in the world. The commentary is in english.

http://www.universalsports.com

Exploring the South of France

For the summer holidays, a group of us are planning on exploring some of the South of France by car his year.

There are a few things on the must-do list and these include timing it so we catch a mountain stage of this years Tour de France, do a little canoeing in the Ardeche, some camping in a wilderness area (national park) and check out at least one great French beach, possibly along the French Riviera somewhere.

The plans are very much in their infancy, but there will be six of us travelling (3 couples) and so what we thought we might do is hire a people carrier type car here in the UK and then catch the ferry crossing to France, drive down to the south and take it from there.

Another option is to catch a ferry to Spain, this leaves from Portsmouth and arrives in Bilbao in Northern Spain and whilst it takes 2 nights to get there and costs more, you do cut out about a 1000 kilometres of driving.

We had wanted to go towards the end of July, but because the Tour de France is starting in Monaco and travelling around France in an anti-clockwise direction this year, they will be in the Pyrenees mountains pretty early on in the race (the 5th, 6th and 7th I think) meaning that if we want to see it, we will have to travel a little earlier than planned, or wait until right t the end of the Tour when on the penultimate day it will be climbing the massive Mont Ventoux in the Provence region of Southern France and nicknamed the "Giant of Provence", or "The Bald Mountain". see main image.

.... decisions, decisions.....