Vision In Blue

The hashtag #50FactsAboutMe is trending on Twitter... the worrying thing is that I can't tell if some of the facts that people have been putting up are real or fake... and that worries me slightly! I don't feel I can subject my Twitter feed to 50 things about me but you guys come here by choice... you'll learn! So where do I start? I prefer the pink marshmallows... Princess ones. I love the film The Last Holiday and it makes me cry every time I watch it. I love to be creative but have such a short attention span I'm lucky if I finish anything. My DVD collection is somewhere over 2200 DVDs at this point. My klout score is currently 51... I have no idea if that's good or not. I dye my hair black... I'd like to go electric blue but I'm a scaredy cat and I'm not made of money! I'm an excellent secret keeper. I can tell the difference between coke and pepsi. I have listened to Harry Potter read by Stephen Fry and Jim Dale, don't bother...

Today I read the following... Nutella, the nutty chocolate spread, is turning 50. Last year some 365 million kilos were consumed - roughly the weight of the Empire State Building. Is there some kind of database for this? A compilation of famous monument statistics for when you need to compare to something so that people really understand what you're talking about. Here are some London Eye related facts... The London Eye can carry 800 passengers in one revolution - equivalent to 11 London double decker buses. Each of the 32 capsules weighs 10 tonnes, to put that figure in perspective, it's the same weight as 1,052,631 pound coins. [I kid you not, the website actually thought 1,052,631 pound coins would be perspective.] Each rotation takes about 30 minutes, meaning a capsule travels at 26cm per second or 0.6 miles per hour - twice as fast as a tortoise sprinting. The total weight of the wheel and capsules is 2,100 tonnes - or as much as 1,272 London black cabs. ...