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Coutts’ Diwali Window Display

Jeff Awesome — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:12:57 +0000

Diwali, popularly known as the festival of lights,’ is a festival that Hindus, Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs celebrate between mid-October and mid-November, with each religion celebrating it for slightly different reasons. Diwali involves the lighting of clay lamps to signify the triumph of good over evil.

This year Coutts the private bank who can help with family investments have put up a display in their Strand Office in London to celebrate the festival and they recorded the painstakingly made window display in this neat little time lapse video.

McQueen Leaves Dogs £50k

Jeff Awesome — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:53:42 +0000

Fashion designer Alexander McQueen’s will has been revealed recently with a staggering £50,000 of his £16 million going to his pets pooches. McQueen who was found hanged 18 months ago the night before his mothers funeral.

He also left £50,000 each to his two housekeeprs, one of whom, Mr Garcia, was the person who discovered McQueen’s body. The rest of his vast fortune was split up between charities he liked or was involved in and his close family. Some of the charities he has left money to include the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, The London Buddhist Centre, The Terrence Higgins Trust and the Blue Cross animal welfare charity. The majority of his fortune and estate has been left in a trust for his won Sarabande charity, with the instructions to fund bursaries and grants for students at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design in London.

It looks as if while making a will he kept the things he loved close to his heart and pen. Obviously Art is a big part of his life but his will shows just how much he loves animals and leaving £50,000 to his pet dogs means that there are going to be some very pampered paws running around.

£69k worth of Lingerie

Kate Middleton’s Old Golf Fails To Sell On eBay

Jeff Awesome — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:37:47 +0000

Kate Middleton’s blue mk4 Volkswagen Golf was recently put onto eBay looking to cash in on those who love a bit of Royal memorabilia, however 21 year old Sonny Brazil who put the car up on eBay has had no luck in finding a buyer and the car did not get any bids.

He originally paid £10,818 for the royal blue (fitting!) VW Golf but expected to get a lot more when he sold it on and put the reserve price at a staggering £20,000. He also said he found a pair of silver cufflinks inside the car believed to belong to Kate but he says they aren’t for sale and he is going to return them to their rightful owner.

So he doesn’t want to cash in by selling the cufflinks but he is happy to add £10k to the price of something cashing in on a name on the V5…

People have been trying to cash in on cars and vans with famous owners for years, you just need to look for used vans on sale sites to find lots of people apparently selling the genuine A Team van or the Only Fools and Horses 3 wheeler. Now I don’t know about you but they can’t all be genuine…

Picture via The Metro