We would like to wish everyone a prosperous and happy new year, if you do not celebrate it. 2008 is going to be an exciting year for stooly.com, stay tuned!

If you are out and about celebrating in London, take care as 500 000 people are expected to watch the fireworks show in Central London. We will update the website with New Years photos, stay tuned. Why not come to London in 2008 and you can experience the amazing fireworks show in Waterloo for yourself. Check out YouTube, someone is bound to add their video of the fireworks on there!

See you all in 2008!

Update: We took a few shots zoomed in, not anything great with the camera we have now but the view is absolutely amazing. The half decent ones will be posted later on today!

There is one thing that ticks me off about sending post to another country and that is that someone always has to be corrupt along the way and snoop through your mail. Folks, in case you are still doing it, do not send money through the post. It guarantees that the letter with the money will never ever reach its destination. You have to be a bit more creative when you send Christmas Cards or even Birthday Cards these days because a lot of “corrupt” people still think that you will enclose money and they will steal it.

Here is the perfect example of a Christmas card we received from some relatives. We did not even have to tear the envelope open; someone manhandled it already for us. I can not believe that the post office actually delivered the card even though it looked like someone took it from the trash.

A clever way of sending post to another country is to write a fake tracking number on the side of the envelope or parcel. That makes people a little scared. Try using clear tape on all sides of the envelope. The fake tracking number has ensured that all of my mail found their way the way it should be. 

I think we have officially depleted our take away menu selection and we are bored out of our brackets with the same type of take out foods available. There are about eight million people living in London, you would think that someone would have this wonderful bright idea to bring a better variety of take away food in London. You see the same old food choices on all pamphlets dropped through your letterbox.

Every second menu is a choice between Chinese, Indian, Pizza’s or a local Kebab shop with their mixed menu. There is nothing else, what about good old home cooked food available to order out? Urghh, this is frustrating. London has a nice big variety of different cultures, which mean we get to experience food from all cultures, why the heck do they never advertise themselves?

Have you seen any Polish or Russian or even Pub food take aways?