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Today it was revealed that the supporters of the North Korea football team were hand picked by Kim Jong-il’s government. Some fans were even reported to be Chinese.

FIFA officials and millions of television viewers were surprised when rows of red -clad ‘North Koreans’ took their seats. North Korea has restricted its citizens to travel abroad so it would seem that conditions were relaxed for a select few.

One fan who spoke to reporters said that his group of 300 had been carefully selected from the North Korean government. The group sang the North Korean national anthem loudly but were no doubt given lessons before the flight to South Africa.

One placard read ‘ Kim-Jong-il thinks I am at work’ .

Unfortunately there isnt any great rates Mootel can offer to North Korea or shall I say The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea.

Picture: London Evening Standard

With the World Cup set to kick off today in Johannesburg, South Africa today , there will be many football fans in South Africa from the UK and abroad.

For those that want to keep in touch with family or friends that are in South Africa there is a simple and cheap way to keep in touch.

Mootel offers various ways to enjoy cheap calls to South Africa.

Instant Dial: Ideal for calling from a UK landline to a South African landline.  Simply dial 0844 988 9910 plus the international number in full. This will cost you 3p per minute. Thi is billed to your landline phone provider.

If your want to call a South African mobile then use the 0871 305 9910 access number. This will cost you 9p per minute.

Text & Talk:  Simply send us a text and we will top up your mobile phone with international calling credit.

Text MOO to 80556 (for a £5 topup)                                                        
Text MOO to 84459 (for a £3 topup)
Text MOO to 80876 (for a £1.50 topup)

Use your prepaid calling card from your chosen phone using our 0208 497 1007 or 0800 619 1007
access number. This will cost you 4p per minute to landlines and 12p per minute to mobiles.

Once your initial callingcard credit runs out you will be automatically topped up by a further £5. To opt out of the auto topup please text STOP to 80556

The Queen gave an MBE to a man dressed as a cow yesterday, giving renewed hope to the immigrant Irish cow community that have set up businesses in the UK that they will one day be rewarded with such an honour.

Tony Fowler, 51, was awarded the MBE for his work as a milkman in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire. During his 19 years delivering milk he has helped the local police catch criminals by keeping an eye out for suspicious behaviour. He also helps out local pensioners and provides whatever help he can.

Buckingham Palace aids were not impressed with his attire and asked him to tone down his outfit prior to his meeting with the UK monarch. Although there is no dress code regarding investitures, men are encouraged to wear business attire.

Mr Fowler intended to wear face pace, black trousers with white hoops stictched on the bottom and a tail. In the end he opted to drop these in favour of cow spotted jacket and normal black trousers.

It has been reported that the outfit had gone down well with the monarch who is a keen farmer and animal lover.

Lets hope that should Betsy receive an MBE one day for helping people save money on international calls, she won’t be asked to wear a dress to satisfy palace officials.

St George’s Day – 23rd June 2010

St George’s Day was a major feast and national holiday in England  from the early 1500′s.  St George’s Day goes by unremarkedly from year to year in England but recently there has been a call to mark this occassion similiar to St Patrick’s Day.

Although Saint George is the Patron Saint of England, it is believed that St George was not English and it is not certain that he ever visited England. Legend has it that St George was born in Coventry at Caludon Castle .

Unfortunately the only way most people know that it is St George’s Day is if they stroll into their local pub which is often decorated with the St George’s Cross flag and English beer promotions.

Lets hope that recent calls to properly mark this day in the nation’s calandar gains momentum.

Don’t forget the clocks go forward this Sunday 28th March 2010.

First introduced in April 1916 it has been a prelude to Summer ever since. The aim is to ensure that afternoons have more daylight and mornings less.

Daylight savings was the brainchild of William Willett (1857 – 1915), who was a London builder living in Petts Wood in Kent. In 1907 he circulated a pamphlet to Members of Parliament, town councils and businesses. He pointed out that for nearly half the year the sun shines  for several hours each day while we are asleep, and is rapidly nearing the horizon, having already passed its western limit, when we reach home from work before it is over.

His proposal was to improve health and happiness by advancing the clocks twenty minutes on each of four Sundays in April, and by reversing this idea by the same amount on four Sundays in September. He said that it would not only improve health and happiness but it would save the country £2 .5 million pounds. Although the scheme was ridiculed and greatly opposed  the Daylight Saving Bill was introduced in 1909.

Every year there are calls to abandon the scheme but policitians are less pioneering today than they were back in 1909.

Don’t forget to adjust your clocks!

St Patrick’s Day 17 March 2010

Celebrate all things Irish this Wednesday with even cheaper calls to Ireland. Ireland is Betsy’s home so we are happy to report that calling Ireland is only 1p per minute.

Just Dial 0844 862 9910 then the Ireland number in full.

Click here for other cheap ways to call Ireland.

 

In a move that has delighted some and disgusted others, a chef in New York has made cheese out of his wife’s breast milk.

The idea struck chef Daniel Angerer 2 months ago after his wife gave birth and she began freezing her surplus milk.

She produced far more than she could use for their baby daughter Arabella. Daniel became curious as to whether human milk could be used in the kitchen.

So he began to experiment in using it to make cheese. He aged it for a few weeks before testing it – and was amazed at its sweet taste.

Now the unusual cheese is on sale at the upmarket Klee Brasserie in New York, USA.

Chef David is using it in a range of dishes including maple caramelized pumpkin encrusted cheese with concord grapes, and cheese rolled in dehydrated porcini mushroom powder with burned onion chutney

Daniel said: ‘Being a chef, you’re curious about anything in terms of flavour – you look out for something new and what you can do with it.

‘After two weeks ageing, it was somewhat like a raw-milk cheese – it had all the flavours in there. It tastes just like really sweet cow’s milk.

‘It wasn’t like, “Hey, this is such an amazing cheese.” It’s just like, “Can you use human milk? Yes, you absolutely can!”

Daniel offers a recipe for the adventurous to make their own. It requires four cups of milk, a small amount of yogurt, rennet and a teaspoon of sea salt, which he said will yield half a pound of cheese.

The chef, who first announced the project on his blog, received responses ranging from ‘gross..who’s supposed to eat this’, to ‘fabulous’.

His supporters are now urging him to consider making breast milk butter and breast milk ice cream.

Betsy’s Comment:

I cannot approve the use of an inferior product such as human breast milk to be used in any dairy product and can only authorize the use of pure dairy milk in the manufacture of cheese.

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The best way to save on your phone bill is to ditch phoning abroad direct with your telephone provider. BT charges exorbitant rates to international destinations. You can call overseas now from only 1p per minute.

All you need to do is find the access number for your destination and then call that number then your international number in full. You will be connected and will only pay that rate per minute instead of the BT rate per minute. BT will then charge you at the reduced rate and this will be payable to BT all your call provider. No need to sign up for the service or get out your credit card.

After dialling the access number the voice prompt will inform you of the rate per minute so you will be aware of the actual cost of the call per minute. The rate also includes VAT.

Lets compare some BT rates with Mootel rates.

To phone Germany will cost you 20.5p/minute during the daytime and 11.2p/minute during evenings and weekends. Calls to Germany mobiles will cost you 45p/minute during the daytime and 35.7p during evenings and weekends.

Calling Germany using Mootel’s access numbers are:

To call Germany Landline from the UK. Cost is 1p per minute. Dial 0844 862 9910 then 0049 + destination number.

To call Germany Mobile from the UK. Cost is 10p per minute. Dial 0871 919 9910 then 0049 + destination number.

Clearly using cheap access numbers is one of the best ways to save on your phone bill.

Check out Mootel to save on your phone bill.