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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...
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September for the garden
September is a busy month in the garden: think next year’s bulbs and sweet peas, sow coriander, plant up winter pots But of course there is a choice .......... I love a certain quality of silence in autumn, sunshine on reddish brown golden leaves, Staying...
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Flowers
The flower is a pretty complicated plant, with lots of little parts which help it reproduce (or make more of itself). For that reason it’s probably best to look at the basics of flower reproduction before we get into the more difficult stuff like the...
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Monday - Enjoyment
Monday The start to a lovely week. A chance to go out and cycle in Autumn Sunshine. Autumn is a favourite time of mine. The shades of trees change every day. Russett. Golden, Purple and All shining colours. Remembering to drink sufficient water for the...
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Birds
Birds. You will never be short of company while you are gardening if you plan your garden with birds in mind. Birds,are like butterflies they need certain plants in order to survive. If you want to attract birds to your garden then you will have to provide...
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The Walnut Tree
The Walnut Tree The Walnut (The name means “foreign nut”) was probably introduced into Britain by the Romans, but it was not cultivated in Britain until the middle of the seventeenth century. It is a large tree, often attaining a height of one hundred...
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Sociopaths in Business
Most corporations are run by sociopaths, and Amazon is no different. No business should be allowed to exist if they refuse to pay their workers a living wage. They have no special right that entitles them to make their profits, not so much on the goods...
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Oranges on an Apple Tree?
Is it possible to get apples on an Orange Tree Or is it possible to get an Orange on an Apple Tree? Apple trees (Malus domestica) and orange trees (Citrus sinensis), while both fruit trees, belong to different plant families. Apple trees are members of...
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Simplistic solutions
Simplistic solutions based on simplistic snake oil hope from politicians and many others who are often insulated from any negative effects. Many or even most people just want to lash out due to anger regarding multiple reasons, not least of which being,...
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manuka
Incorrectly labelled manuka Britain's Food Standards Agency has issued a nationwide warning about misleading and illegal claims made on the labels of manuka honey jars, it is a worrying blow to the fast-growing Kiwi industry. New Zealand manuka honey...
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KPMG A Russian Money Launderette
Evidence made that KPMG LLP (as one of the “big accountancy firms”) behave “unethically and against the interest of the British state.” KPMG LLP is the UK member firm of the KPMG network of independent member firms affiliated with KPMG International Cooperative...
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University a Mis-sold idea
Universal University Education to everybody does not produce social mobility and jobs for everybody. However a Universal Taxation System whereby everybody is taxed not just the Poor with an Accountant would produce jobs for everybody and a greater chance...
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Plums
Plums This is a great busy time of the Season. Autumn is bountiful A pleasure in the Orchard collecting the Apples of the Year. Additionally there are many many Plums. Loads and loads of Plums We make them in Cakes and Pies Delicious enough to sit in...
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Danske Bank Money Laundering
The latest scandal of the £178million money-laundering case at Denmark’s largest bank is not the biggest scandal in Europe for there are also the accountancy firms that are even more complicit in many more money-laundering cases. How Danske Bank executives...
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Pedestrians. for the city
We have to look at the problems of the pedestrians, particularly the aged ones, at a global level. It is a sad state everywhere - in the cities of USA, Europe or Asia, here you can see a virtual decimation of footpaths (call them sidewalks if you like),...
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Picking Mushrooms
Picking Mushrooms is a joy in the Autumn So many things to do in a busy world Yet there is a delight in finding mushrooms. A walk in the woods with friends is profitable Whenever we encounter with bountiful mushrooms in the the carpet forest. Those that...
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Monday Morning
Monday Morning Each morning is a delight Monday has its special touch A start to the Week A walk to School with many a chestnut bestowing the way. A Windy evening has shaken all the trees and leaves and branches are all around. Still Windy morning brings...
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Nagasaki
The marvelous story of the bell of Nagasaki: in the aftermath of the dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945, one column of the Japanese city’s cathedral somehow survived, and in the desperate days that followed, someone managed to crawl to it to ring its...
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Blockchain
Blockchain is a digital ledger that provides a secure and public way of making and recording transactions, agreements and contracts; its best-known use is bitcoin, the virtual currency. The database is shared across a network of computers and becomes...
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The weasel
The weasel The weasel may be tiny, but this fierce predator can dispatch and drag off a full-grown rabbit 25 times its size – and has a stare that even humans can find unnerving If I asked you to name Britain’s most savage wildlife killer, you might say...
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Homeschooling banned in Germany
When did the ban on homeschool in Germany begin? Whose idea was it to eliminate homeschooling in a land where self-education had for centuries produced Bachs and Mozarts? ______ A new ruling from the European Human Rights Court has affirmed the German...
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rouge landlords
Landlord licensing schemes are popping up all over the country as local authorities attempt to crack down on rogue operators. How these typically work is that all landlords pay several hundred pounds for a licence, and they, and their properties, are...
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omniclusterhumpingshitfanshambles.
“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” ― Plato. omniclusterhumpingshitfanshambles. The United Kingdom of Summer 2018 this government couldn't make more of a mess if it shat on its hands and clapped. The only...
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The Norse ship in Iona
The Norse ship When the Scottish Hebrides were under the power of Norway many Norwegians came over and settled, and of course , the two races married one with the other and copied each other's ways and customs. The Norwegians were famous seafarers and...
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Doctor Who
Doctor Who The Doctor has been relatively relatable since year dot, or he would have been some 6 legged green thing with multifaceted eyes that breathed methane. Far more likely in an infinite universe than a man who looks just like us but happens to...