Hey there fellow bloggers and readers of Blazing Minds, can you believe that we have got to Friday so quickly, before we all know it it’ll be Friday again, I swear someone puts the clock in overdrive during the week Anyway enough of all this frivolousness banter, it’s Friday, so I’m using today for an excuse to shout out to those on Twitter that have been friendly to Blazing Minds over the last week.

Twitter FollowFriday – Are You Listed!

If you are on Twitter and following me @BlazingMinds you will have already seen my FollowFriday (FF) tweet, if you haven’t then here it is again

#ff @drrus @knitwitshair @commentluv @askkim @famousbloggers @numcrunchingmom @tlb1321 @gingermommy @ditesco @shairbearg (via @ffhelper)

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Karen

Are you in the FF this week, if you are then it shows that you have ReTweetd and Mentioned @BlazingMinds and the blog posts over the last 7 days, so cheers and the drinks are on me
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Since opening up Blazing Minds to Guest Bloggers, I’ve had some amazing guest posts coming in and these have been extremely popular on the blog as can be seen by the rise in the Alexa rank and the comments that have been left on the various posts.

Now the only problem with opening your blog up to Guest Bloggers is those that will take advantage of this and just register to try to SPAM your blog with awful posts, now for me, I’ve always had some guidance for my guest bloggers to follow and luckily everyone has followed these to produce some great article.
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If you’re thinking of getting away this summer then you might have another reason given to you by British Airways as they cut their fares by up to 30% on their business class routes and up to 60% in their first class cabins if you can find a destination you want and can book before June 21, 2011.

British Airways will be slashing the prices on tickets to over 80 destinations, the offer on discounted tickets includes tickets booked before the end of the month for travel before New Year’s Eve. Business flights to Caribbean destinations including Grenada and Jamaica are attracting discounts of 24 to 29%. As well as the flights, BA are also offering holiday packages, offers include stays at resorts like the 4 ½ star Hilton Rose Hall Resort and Spa located in Montego Bay. It recently received a Five Diamond AAA standard. They’re also offering holiday deals in Dubai, booking now could put you in poll position when the F1 Grand Prix arrives later on this year; the BA offer includes stays at the Ritz-Carlton anmd hotels further into the desert such as the Al Maha Desert Resort and Spa.

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Spring is upon us and that can only mean one thing, it’s the Wedding Season! Whether you’re going to travel abroad for your wedding or you’re just going to get wed here and then travel abroad for your honeymoon you’ll want to stay somewhere which offers a great deal of luxury.

It used to be that a girl dreamed of a church wedding in a big white dress, these days though it’s becoming ever more popular to tie the knot by the sea on a beach somewhere tropical, white sand in place of confetti and palm trees instead of chapel bells. Even if you are getting married at home the glitz and glamour of the marriage of Prince William to the now Princess Kate has encouraged every bride and groom-to-be to up their game when it comes to the lavishness of their luxury holiday.

For many prospective spouses booking a flight over to the Bahamas with your whole family in tow is something which will have to remain a pipe dream, so what are your options if you have champagne tastes but a lemonade budget?

Laterooms.com has published the results of a survey that they carried out recently which found that eighty two percent  of the British who are getting married this year are feeling the pinch and won’t be able to afford to pay for the honeymoon they want and seventy six percent said they are intending to make shorter breaks. Most people normally want to take a long honeymoon, however, twelve percent say they would be happy to make do with a break away for seven days or fewer, forty five percent would take a ten day holiday. So, while the ideal would be to spend 14 nights on a Caribbean island drinking rum punches the reality is more likely to be a week somewhere closer to home in Europe, at least it will be for fifty four percent of people planning to make a honeymoon this year.

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I’ve been a fan of Stargate and its many spin-offs since I first sat in the cinema and watched the amazing Stargate movie all those years ago and subsequently over the years I’ve watch and thoroughly enjoyed the spin-offs: Stargate SG1, Stargate Atlantis and most recently Stargate Universe (SGU).

And as with the majority of TV shows that you are just getting in to and starting to enjoy, somebody in their idiotic wisdom decides to axe the show and  after only two seasons, with uproar from fans of the Stargate franchise and calls for the show to be returned even maybe just for another season.

Here in the UK we are coming to the end of season two and I’m hoping that something can be done to keep the show going.

What about the fans!

At the time of me writing this blog the Save Stargate Universe Facebook page has 26,549 fans wanting the show to be saved from the vaults of TV history. I urge you to get on over there and show your support.

There are indeed fans that are really serious about this and have some really brilliant blog posts with regards to the situation of the show being cancelled by the Syfy channel for example you must read the post Save Stargate Universe Facebook Campaign Recruits Over 22,000 Fans…Will Syfy Listen? by Neal Jansons, where he has far more information about the cancelling of the show and CAN THEY SAVE “STARGATE UNIVERSE”? so I recommend you stop by there.

Goodbye Syfy & Comcast! Save SGU!

So now it’s down to the fans to keep the show alive, it’s been done before with other shows, so if the following and demand is big enough, then something can be done, so join the cause and help keep Stargate Universe alive!

Don’t forget to stop by The Plan: Save Stargate Universe to do your part

I’m telling you all now that I’m not going to say any swear words in this post, except for the ones that I use, well sort of!

In this day and age swearing has become a part of every day life, but there are easy ways to curb swearing by replacing it with some well chosen alternatives and I thought I would bring you some of my favourites and been a bit of a sci-fi fan, you can probably imagine where this is going, they are from some of my favourite sci-fi shows and films

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The travel industry is looking forward to the April glut of Bank Holidays and so are the rest of us!

A number of other factors, not least the royal wedding have encouraged British holiday makers to take holidays abroad this spring. The government said ”Here, have a day off for the royal wedding” and, with clever use of accrued holiday, taking thee days off will give you a break of almost a fortnight. While the government was hoping The Great British Public would stick around and spend Spend SPEND on bunting, Union Flags and cake, many people demonstrated their overarching ambivalence toward the nuptials and booked holidays in other, foreign destinations instead.

When a survey was taken earlier this year of 3,000  travellers 28% said that they would be using the wedding augmented Easter break to go somewhere that they had never been to before. Luke Nathan from Travelsoon, who conducted the survey said: “The news that British travellers are becoming braver in their holiday choices is really a very positive one.” He goes on to point out that many travel companies are sending back figures which show that some destinations are up 180% compared to this time last year.

47% of the holidaymakers said that yes, the state of the economy was a contributing factor in their holiday plans and that they were being careful, looking for cheap deals on online rather than going through traditional high street travel agents. Only 18% of the travellers said that they had booked through the high street retailers, 55% said that they would look for the best deals and discounts by searching online.

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