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With Halloween fast approaching us, how creative are you being? Will you be making your own scary costume or making some gruesome food to give to the local Trick or Treaters that come knocking?

When most people buy their pumpkin for Halloween, they usually just carve a scary looking simple face but there are so many more possibilities for pumpkin art.

To use up the insides of your pumpkins you could then make a traditional pumpkin pie, a pumpkin cauldron which is pumpkin and chicken stew or for something a little more sweet some chocolate, pumpkin and pecan brownies

For more pumpkin recipes click here

Halloween is the time of year when people can get very creative with their food. An easy way to make sweet treats scary would be to make cakes or biscuits and decorate them. You could make some spider web chocolate fudge muffins or some hooting Halloween owls

For those very creative out there you could make some like these brain cakes.

For more Halloween recipe ideas click here

Halloween is also a time where people can become very creative with their costumes, here at icm we have Ben who is dressing up as a Skeleton and Haley who is dressing up as Poison Ivy. We would like to see pictures of these please!

Let us know if you make any scary food or dress up this Hallowee…

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We would like to congratulate our Account Manager Louise on the safe arrival of her little baby boy. Oliver David Wardle as born on Thursday 8th October, only 1 day after Louise had began her maternity leave!

Louise, Chris and Oliver came in to visit us last Friday so we could say hello to Oliver – we were all amazed to see how much hair he has for a new born as you can see from the picture below.

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As most of you know I love Cornwall, I go camping there twice a year and have done for a number of years now.

This latest holiday was however, a little different… The South-West being one of the first regions to switch off analogue television broadcasting. We never really watched much television whilst under canvas, usually just the early-September camping trip where the dark nights start drawing in. This year we had no option but to leave the television at home.

I love my TV at home in all it’s flatscreen, Sky+, high definition glory. But I’ll quite happily go a week without it. Obviously having Sky+ helps – series-linking means nothing gets missed, you can even set it to record from your mobile-phone! Our camping television was a small 4inch portable that ran off batteries that needed changing what seemed like every other ad-break, again, something I won’t miss.

After some careful checking that it was available in the region, I treated myself to a digital radio. It is mains-rechargeable and solar-powered too – no more batteries! The radio certainly filled the gap left by the unavailable broadcasting; local radio for the weather (and surf) reports, tide-times and traffic news, Radio 2 in the evenings, comedy clips on Radio 4, and a whole range of previously unheard channels that broadcast digitally.

I didn’t realise until returning home that I have a radio in almost every room in the house; from garage to bedroom, bathroom to kitchen. Maybe staring at a screen all day at work has something to do with this?

Now this blog isn’t a ‘which one is better?’ debate, more of a ‘radio-appreciation’ story. The radio seems to make for better company than a television, it’s easier to have a conversation with the radio on in the background than having the television on.

Since returning from holiday, the television has been on less, the radio definitely more. Now if only I could receive a digital signal at ho…

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