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London newspapers are rife with the news that greedy/unscrupulous/just damn sensible landlords are cashing in on the Olympics and freeing up their properties for visitors to rent. With loads of people flooding in to the capital for the Games and needing accommodation, there's a ready-made market. Although you've got to feel sorry for those few people who are being actually being thrown out of their houses, most are being asked to leave fairly legally, with at least a month's notice. They should head to www.adizar.co.uk to find new flats and houses. In the meantime, anyone thinking of going on holiday for the Olympics stands to make a packet, with properties renting out for around £4000 a week. Sol Campbell is leading the charge, with his Chelsea townhouse on the market for a casual £75,000 a week.

The Usual Suspects is a marvellous film starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak, Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Spacey, and Benicio del Toro. Released in 1997, the film was well received with Christopher McQuarrie awarded the Academy Award for the screenplay, and Spacey receiving the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

The budget of the film was just $5.5 million and was shot in only 35 days in Los Angeles. The police lineup scene was mostly improvised by the actors! The screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie fed the actors questions off-camera and it was their job to completely make up their answers. When Stephen Baldwin gave his answer, everyone kept breaking their character by laughing. Spacey claimed it was almost impossible not to laugh during a take as Baldwin and Pollack were hilarious, the pair always trying to make the serious Byrne laugh. The police lineup scene took all morning to film as a result! I seriously recommend everyone sort their ipad out with some great ipad 1 accessories and sit back to enjoy the film!

My mum has just had new windows put into the house and the amount of light now coming in is startling, it’s as if the house is being illuminated by hundreds of led gu10 bulbs!

It’s very easy to live in darkness once you become used to it, indeed it is comforting. When I was at university, the flat I lived in had massive shutters that could be pulled across the windows, barring even a shard of sunlight from making its way in. It’s a dangerous lifestyle however, as the temporal distinctions between day and night become increasingly blurred as the shutters increasingly remain closed. Also, it is very difficult to see if there is dust all over the place – something I realized a bit late after a rather gnarly chest infection set in on once of my housemates.

So, a former shadow-hugger, I am not revelling in the amount of sunlight my mother’s house is being flooded with. Not a speck of dust goes unnoticed, leaving chest infection causing bugs seriously unemployed. I recommend it to anyone reading, get new windows! Or at least, open those shutters.

I'm trying to slim down because I've put on a few pounds recently, so I'm doing a detox diet for a couple of weeks, or as long as I can handle it really!

I'm having pretty much 90% fruit and veg, as much of it raw as possible as that's when it's at its healthiest.

The most important part of the detox is to flush out the rubbish in your body, so I'm going to have lots of fluids, I have a tap water purifier that I'm making the most of, and I've got some natural chemical-free cordials to make it a bit more interesting too.

It's going to be harder at work, but I'll just have to be well prepared with meals and snacks, and I can have lots of natural caffeine free teas from the boiling water dispenser in the kitchen, so I'm sure it won't be too hard!

Photo: kahala (Flickr)

I'm always changing my style, I go through phases but I'm usually fairly true to what I like: leopard print, girly things, pink, band t-shirts, and rock'n'roll styling.

Lately I've started to really get into the whole 50s pin up rockabilly style. I know it's something that a lot of girls do, some do it really well too, but I think it's just the kind of style I've been looking for but too lazy to achieve.

I'm growing my hair out so I can style it a bit better in more 50s styles, and it'll be really easy to adapt my wardrobe to a more girly rockabilly one.

I'm not going to go all silly with floral dresses, that's not me, but it's about teaming this new style that I admire with what I already do.

I just love how feminine it is, while still being really powerful and strong, it's great.

Photo: demetri parides (Flickr)