Melissa

Melissa writes on culture for Two Little Fleas. Her work is located in the Hub section.

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Cute Greetings Cards You Can Make

Greetings cards are big business in the UK. In fact, Britain spend more each year sending cards than any other nation. There is something about a card that seems so much more personal, so much lovelier, than an email or even a phone call could ever be. How much more personal, lovelier, then, would a… Read more »

The Most Viewed Music Videos on YouTube

YouTube is an amazing playground for those who like clips of kittens, quick tutorials and quasi-legal videos of copyrighted content. It’s also one of the most influential factors in the success of songs in the pop charts. Get to the top of the most viewed music videos list, and you’ve got a bona fide hit… Read more »

Get Healthy by Hiding Veg in Your Food

Since the dawn of time, parents have struggled to get their kids (or particularly stubborn adult family members) to eat healthy food. Whether its broccoli, cauliflower, courgettes, mushrooms or whatever else, you soon learn when cooking for picky eaters that you can’t just steam up a plate of veg and expect them to eat it…. Read more »

The Biggest Gadgets of 2014

Every year, it seems our new gadgets are rendered obsolete by the new, big technology releases. 2014 is no different, and these are the biggest, most revolutionary gadgets we’ll be able to get this year. Google Glass Source You’ve probably heard about Google Glass all throughout 2013: commentators and early testers raved about the wearable… Read more »

The Big Wallpaper Trends of 2014

When you think trendy, you rarely think of wallpaper. And that’s a good thing. Wallpaper manufacturers realise they make a product that won’t likely be removed for five or ten years, and they want to make designs that will stand the test of time. But they also need to look somewhat modern for the customers… Read more »

Why We’re Entering a New Golden Age of TV

Television has come a long way. The first Golden Age of Television was in the 1950s, when formats were perfected and genres were established. It was an age of creativity, when classic shows like Hancock’s Half Hour and Dixon of Dock Green were setting the tone for all the shows that followed after. Soon, however,… Read more »

Start Saving for These Holidays Abroad

Do you have a dream holiday? They may seem like pipe dreams. They are so expensive, and finding the time to jet off for a couple of weeks isn’t so easy for those of us who have to work for a living. In actual fact, it’s cheaper and easier to travel around the world than… Read more »

Meet Some Newly Discovered Amazonian Species

There have been hundreds of scientific expeditions to the Amazon for the past three years. And every time the boffins go out there, they come back with hundreds of new species. In the past three years, they have discovered 258 plants, 22 reptiles, 58 amphibians, 84 fish, 18 birds and one mammal. They’ve also found… Read more »

The Best Creative Commons Photos of 2013

In the early days of the internet, the photos people used were usually covered by a copyright that didn’t actually allow the use of the image, if the photos weren’t their own images. Then Creative Commons licences came along, and it opened up a whole world of professional photography to blogs and websites everywhere. Below… Read more »

5 Books You’re Going to Read in the New Year

Every year, British publishers release 149,800 new books. They are beaten only by the outputs of the USA and China. These countries each have at least five times the number of people than the UK, but they publish less than twice the number of books. That means, per capita, Britain publishes more books than any… Read more »