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Open grilled sandwich: heavy rye bread -- Finnish style stuff, sourdough and rye, and not much else -- a good pesto and a sharp cheese. I like the Swedish Västerbotten, a sharp long anged cheese. A decent cheddar works as well. Grill in the oven until...
“The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens” ― George Orwell, 1984 Incoming joggers who don't know whether to swerve to the left or right of you because while staring at your phone you're not walking in a straight line. Not just...
Plants are so easy to grow, in the home its easy to give them the conditions they need and for them to succeed in the garden plants suited to the conditions will survive and flourish. Its easy to test your garden soil, tester kits are cheap, under a tenner...
Finns are obsessed with sauna. An important part of our obsession is saunavasta, a bunch of birch branches. The best saunavasta are made during Midsummer by breaking a branch from seven different birches with your left hand. The most enthusiastic sauna...
gas is really impossible and it can do lots of things because A fart can get a rocket into space and you know what why it can get rockets in to space because they threw the hole and a little bucket and they get the hole to not be a hole then they tried...
What would be the best way to use Bots? Are they seriously really for real? Are they the people really talk? Do people have conversations like that? Is this time well spent? Bots and Robots Were have all the people gone. we are now left talking to tablets.....
There are three main things that need to be done to take control of our cities roads... make it a fit and and friendly place for pedestrians, for cycles and other eco-friendly forms of individual transport... and give public transport priority over all...
Viewed and enjoyed Same characters Same problems The world has changed but have they evolved A good companion to the first film If not, then go see it before judging this All in all it is a good film but I do prefer the original however when I see Renton...
One reason for Trump's victory is that he communicated in very easy conversational and the sort of bar room language that seemed very different from Obama's intelligent and far more thoughtful use of language. Part of that was to show the US had an intelligent...
we'll miss something when it's gone. I know my disappointment is no big deal in the big scheme of things, but I was truly looking forward to recapturing my youth with a bit of classic "kosmische Krautrock" with Manuel Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel) at The...
Austerity is here and austerity continues, while the government tries to escape the blame by cosmetically positioning itself against its own policies This is the life within a world of Austerity dictated from above The options to us are very clear. Find...
Gardening is mutually nourishing, you nourish it and it nourishes you which is what one thinks of when one considers the nature of love in its true sense. I think of plants, not as single entities, but as collectives. A plant leaf is similar to a flower...
A large nettle patch does butterflies very much Which will increase the butterfly population as far as is aware. Although butterflies will feed on the nectar, they won't lay eggs in a small patch of nettle. Size of patch is key to whether significant...
I love hearts, especially lambs hearts. But they need to either be cooked very hard and fast or slowly. The easiest way to do them is to cut the hearts into thin slices and stick them in a smoking hot pan and fry, with something like cumin seed if you...
Aye it is horrible when the cats get in. I'm going for those raised bed veg-trug type things this year, in the hope the wretched moggies will not be able to contaminate them. I wish cat owners would start realising their pets need to be kept indoors,...
Have you ever thought about how our ancestors survived through all of the diseases from hundreds of years ago? Well hundreds of years ago in the Medieval ages, our ancestors from Europe had to survive a deadly plague called the Black Death. have you ever...
A declaration of the dignity of the individual mind. A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived "in accordance with nature", Stoicism called for restraint of animal instincts and severing of emotional ties. An unsympathetic...
I have a love/hate relationship with cleaning. On the rare occasions when my house feels completely clean and tidy, I love it. I love the end result of clear surfaces and crumb-free floors. But I hate the fact that you’re never done with cleaning. Almost...
I see a wood mouse every now and then in our garden, usually emerging from a low dry stone wall. One winter, when we had a bird feeder - and there was a greasy patch of fatball debris on the ground - a wood mouse ran to it from the nearby hedge. As soon...
I now have a number of thriving houseplants and the simple reason is this: instead of watering them in situ (when water is likely to accumulate at the bottom of the decorative pot ) I now put them in the sink (you could use the bath), give them a good...
Why is it that people that use Sweden as a bad example use the wrong information?! Noone is stopped from IVA, at least not anyone who would be admitted to IVA outside of a pandemic (a sick and fragile 85+ person might at any time be considered too fragile...
This moving lament for the death of innocence sends to us all the message that each single breath is precious when we are in thrall to nature’s relentless extremes, for each of us might face a day that shatters our hopes and our dreams when everything’s...
The real problem with smartphones is that gazing at them for long periods, for whatever purpose, is removing the user from the real world and its non-human inhabitants, animal and vegetable . We are already seeing consequences of behaving as though the...
Saint Corona was only fifteen when she professed her Christian Faith during the persecution of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius around 165. Corona was arrested and tied by her feet to the tops of two palm trees which were bent to the ground. When the...
I have tulips coming up in two pots so far, and one single tulip is just peeking through the soil in the garden. I know I planted more than one in that spot last year so I am hoping that a few more will appear as time goes on or that single tulip is going...
