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Sitting at home feeling lonely. Then join a local choir. A Choir is a great place to make friends Like any other group community activity, eg choirs that don't have auditions and entry standards, if you don't sing all that well (and its difficult to imagine...

Fresh herbs are a great way to add flavour to meals and they are easy to grow from seed at home. Now is the time to sow seeds of lots of culinary herbs including basil, rosemary and thyme. Keep them on a warm windowsill or propagator until they germinate...

JUL BRIDGET OF SWEDEN Bridget was the daughter of a wealthy governor who used his riches generously. He donated money for good causes and helped the poor. He worked for the just and fair treatment of all the people. Bridget, who was born in 1303, learned...

To plant garlic, carefully break the bulb up into individual cloves and push into the soil about 10cm apart, with the pointy tip just below the surface. Each clove will produce a new bulb. Keep weeding around the bulbs as they grow and you’ll be harvesting...

Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) is one of the towering figures in Western philosophy and theology, so great that he is even called the “angelic Doctor” by the Roman Catholic Church. Within a twenty year span he wrote over forty books, including his masterpiece...

As an idea, freedom of speech arguably dates back to Socrates. He said to his prosecutors, "If you offered to let me off this time on condition I am not any longer to speak my mind... I should say to you, 'Men of Athens, I shall obey the Gods rather than...

If you wash them, the skins of non-organic tomatoes are still good for you because they are so thin that many pesticides just pass straight through them into the pulp. Contrary to the common myth, organic tomatoes are not pesticide free - it is virtually...

Wormeries: There are watertight buckets and wormeries you can buy in suitable shops, which is good if you haven't got a garden. If you have a garden, then make a compost, and worms will come anyway. Not forgetting that worms are not necessary. Composting...

I suspect another reason for food waste is that many people don't cook, or even make light meals and snacks, regularly. If meals only get prepared max 2/3 times a week, the rest of the ingredients linger in the fridge a few days and then get binned, to...

Seaweed is just as good as Manure A day at the beach, especially after this storm has hurtled over, should yield a sack of seaweed (soaked for a day to loosen the salt, before it gets added to the kitchen wastes) and a hand cranked paper shredder permits...

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