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Preparing and Cooking a Meal
Preparing and Cooking a Meal Cooking food to make a meal is something that only humans do. No other animal does this. Cooking does several things to food. It makes some foods taste better and more pleasant to eat. Tough vegetables like potatoes and turnips...
Hedgehog and others
Hedgehogs and others Worms, beetles, spiders, butterflies and birds are wonderful visitors to your wee garden. However there are many other animals that visit and live in your glorious wee garden. Hedgehogs is one of my favourites. If you hear something...
Crocus ready for planting
Crocus We plant our bulbs in September in containers with good drainage. In a 24-inch container I plant either 50 tulips, 30 large-flowered daffodils, 50 small-flowered daffodils, or 100 minor bulbs, like Crocus, Muscari, Scilla, or Iris species or cultivars....
The Sistine Chapel Choir
The Sistine Chapel Choir in the Vatican, may be involved in embezzlement, fraud and money laundering. That Pope Francis has authorised an investigation into possible financial irregularities in the Sistine Chapel Choir, which is one of the world’s oldest...
The Shared Place
The shared space The shared space was created and designed for residential areas where traffic and cars would be a guest there the shared space layout should clearly indicate that the primary function of the area would be and should be residential. There...
Street names
Street names The very fact that very few streets have really wonderful names like “Massacre Lane,” or “Poison Avenue,” or “Stench Street” does suggest that when cities were first developing the people naming the streets associated some with interesting...
Autumn Gardening
Timely reminders. Someone recommended throwing carrot seeds far and wide to rewild amongst any uncut grass. Love their flowerhead so much. On the lookout for a packet of seeds right now. We already sprinkled saved supplies of evening primrose, wallflower,...
paddington and the Grand tour
This is Paddington in audio https://archive.org/details/PaddingtonAndTheGrandTour
Singing to learn language
Song is central to our culture and integral to our learning processes. Key events in our lives are marked by music; from the familiar ‘Happy birthday’ to school songs, Christmas carols and wedding marches, singing and playing musical instruments are part...
Start with Happiness
Start the day with a smile. Greet your friends with a smile and ask them if they are happy. Spread a little of happiness goes a long way the song "If you are happy and you know it" then it is indeed good to clap Physical evidence of happiness is brilliant...