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With Father’s Day on Sunday 19th June fast approaching, the TruffleShuffle.com team have been thinking about our favourite gifts to help you avoid the last minute panic-buy of a few beers and some gardening tools for your Daddy-cool!

Your Dad may not know his Green Day from his Bullet For My Valentine, or think that Chipmunk is a long lost cousin of Alvin, Simon & Theodore, but as much as you may hate to admit it, he knew about some of rock ‘n’ roll’s most iconic stars long before you! Help him re-live his youth and feel like a rock star with some of these memorabilia pieces.

SUPERMANDAD?! If your Dad is your hero show him just how ‘super’ you think he is with these ‘Marvel-ous’ gifts…! Your Mum may think your Dad is ‘Mr Lazy’, and he may think he is ‘Mr Strong’ but let your Dad know how what you think of him with a gift from our Mr. Men collection.

And if none of those tickle your fancy, there’s a whole other host of classic Dad-style gifts to choose from, including goodies from Monty Python, Viz, Top Gear and Rocky.

We have gifts galore for every dad out there, just visit TruffleShuffle.com to see what we have and get your Fathers Day pressie all wrapped up!

Firstly we would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has entered our Twitter competition over the last couple of days. We had a whopping 427 entries which just goes to show how much you lovely lot adore Casio!

The time has now come to announce the lucky winner so drum roll please......

Congratulations to Jane Haselden AKA @Jane_is_me!

We really hope you love your new watch!

Now for the boring stuff....

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A close friend once asked me this very question with an air of shame in his voice. I honestly can't say that I answered him as I was too busy witnessing the Rock stare down Hulk Hogan at yet another sold out Wrestlemania. I guess my ability to zone out when the wrestling is on comes from just years and years of being a fan of the strange and yet somehow (not so) beautiful erm ugh sport??!

You see back in the early 80's when I was a wee nipper, on Saturday afternoons just after Saturday superstore and before the A-Team, on I.T.V's World of Sport was Professional Wrestling and not the over the top glamed up wrestling we know today. This was British Wrestling, this was two burly men in leotards, two big sometimes overweight often middle aged men in skin tight lycra, gut barging, eye gauging and head locking their way out of our TV set. The two biggest names of the time were Big Daddy (who my Nan loved and my Granddad knew he could beat) and Giant Haystacks, a scary hairy monster of a man at 6 foot 5 and over 20 stone. Each week these behemoths in spandex would fight in village halls in front of old biddies swinging handbags and chanting "easy easy easy", etching their legendary rivalry into the history books. Eventually their epic rivalry came to an end when Big Daddy gut barged Giant Haystacks out of the ring and through a table for a ten count making Big Daddy the winner in front of a sold out Wembley arena.

Sadly the wrestling stopped on Saturday afternoons but my love for this uniquely brutal form of entertainment did not die. By the time I got to Primary School most of my friends had acquired cable TV and a new group of heroes. Gone was the argument of "who would win in a fight Big Daddy or Superman?", no now it was "who would win in a fight, Hulk Hogan or Superman?". I'd hear playtime stories of Andre the Giant an actual freaky giant at 7 foot 5, The Ultimate Warrior and Hulk Hogan a man with a handle bar moustache, a silky white mullet and skin orange and shiny.

They all seemed way too mythical to be real to me but the stories kept coming. The Biggest story at the time was when Hulk Hogan finally slammed Andre the Giant at Wrestlemania 3, Andre was huge well over 500 pounds (I never realised pounds was weight, I just thought it was a lot of money). Gone were the chants of "easy easy easy" now we chanted "USA USA USA", We weren't even American, it made little sense but nothing did and it was fun.

Every playtime we would group together and do "Ible oble black bobble ible oble out" to see who got be Hulk Hogan and one at a time would line up to get slammed on the grass when the teachers weren't watching. Most the time, in fact every time it would end with someone shouting "Pile On!!" and us in massive heap on the grass laughing and screaming, a teacher would shout "break it up" and we would walk heads down with grass stained knees back to class.

I don't know if can answer my friends question. I guess pro wrestling is like a man’s version of Coronation Street or Eastenders. You get a bit of a story, a lot of bad acting and some violence - what more do you want? Just take this advice from Hulk Hogan "Train hard, take your vitamins and say your prayers" oh and "What you gonna Doooo, Watcha gonna do Brother when Hulkamania Runs wild on you?"

We are loving all this glorious sunshine and can't wait to let our skin breathe and soak up some rays in some of our stunning ladies vests this Summer! Here are some of our hot picks to see you through the season of sun!

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We're always adding shedloads of awesome new stuff to the site but here's a few of our favourites from this week....

With only 25 days to go to THE BIG DAY, we're starting to get pretty excited about the impending Royal Wedding and our new fit for a Princess, Little Miss tee is the perfect way to welcome the celebrations. With sparkly blue jewels on her golden crown, Little Miss Princess is the latest addition to the classic series of children's stories, created by Adam Hargreaves in time for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. Our exclusive tee features a shot of her in all her royal glory making it perfect for any fellow princesses in waiting! Click the pic to find out more...

This unmistakeable Kiss tee from Amplified is definitely a stand out design from their Spring Summer collection.  Featuring a cracking shot of Kiss frontman, Gene Simmons complete of course with his trademark facepaint, we think this Lick It Up tee is a future Amplified classic. Click the pic to buy.

If TruffleShuffle did cameras.........

Oh wait, we do! This is no ordinary bit of kit though. Built completely from LEGO bricks, it can’t be taken apart but bricks can be added to the top or bottom of the camera so you can dig out your old toy box and start putting those boxes of lego back into use. Perfect for us grown ups who can still smell those little plastics bricks as if we were ten years old, kids will obviously love it too making it perfect for their first foray into the world of photography. Let's be clear, this is no toy though; it’s a full functioning 3 Megapixel digital camera, featuring a color 1.5” LCD screen.  It takes high quality photos with the built-in flash, fixed focus and digital zoom and  holds up to 80 photos at a time. Prepare for the nods of approval when you get this out and start snapping away.....

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