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Seeds in the windowsill
herbs are easy to grow; all you need is a windowsill. Basil, parsley and coriander are easy to cultivate: all you need is a windowsill – and some helpful advice Your recycling bin will have any number of suitable growing containers in it, from takeaway...
SOS in Loch Trieg
A man living without electricity in a forest in the Highlands was airlifted to hospital after his distress call was picked up in the United States. The man, in his mid-seventies, lives alone in a cabin near Loch Treig, about 13 miles inland from Fort...
Father Brown
Father Brown was based on a real person – Father John O’Connor, a parish priest in Bradford, who was closely involved in Chesterton’s conversion to Catholicism in 1922. We first meet Father Brown in “The Blue Cross”, where he is described as “a very short...
Puppetics
Puppetics Puppetics @puppetics2018 Lyin' Brian and Lemonhead join Horizontal Harris and ABC for some F*ckface comedy. Follow us on social media! Please repost! https://gab.com/puppetics2018 Subscribe to our channel on YouTube & click the alert bell. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5rXPb6pwq1k0oKJCxNo7tg...
A Facebook Problem
Facebook is a money machine which has accumulated remarkable influence The structure and function of Facebook is antithetic to the ideology of the internet. The internet is open, configurable, distributed, and based on open code. Facebook is nothing of...
Likes
Why should Likes matter?" Indeed. While having a few friends is often a great help, a big number of likes or followers is nothing to be wished for. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -- Mark Twain...
Kindness
A friend and I were served lunch by a youngish woman in a City wine bar a couple of years ago. I called her over and thanked her personally at the end as I thought she'd been good at her job. She immediately burst into tears. Long story short it turns...
Monday Sunshine
Monday A great start to the week. A little gardening and some time help others I deleted my FB profile years ago due to privacy concerns, now proven true. The creators have now spilled the beans over using the dopamine reward system to keep people hooked....
Charity
"Charity is a cold, grey, loveless thing’, said Clem Attlee (1920) when he exhorted the wealthy to pay their taxes in full measure to help those poorer than themselves. A hundred years on & the need is no less pressing. All those £trillions salted away...
Saint Teresa of Avila.
Saint Teresa of Avila. Saint Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, a prominent 16th century Spanish mystic, Carmelite nun, and writer of the Counter Reformation. Like many of her writings her autobiography has a didactic tone as it intends to instruct the...