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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...
Thanks to the rise of “deepfakes”—highly realistic and difficult-to-detect digital manipulations of audio or video— it is becoming easier than ever to portray someone saying or doing something he or she never said or did. Worse, the means to create deepfakes...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Contemplate the works of nature There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honour the infinite wisdom and goodness of God. Over 150 years ago, King Wilhelm 1 of Württemberg, a...
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,...
Glory of the day a pleasure to enjoy meeting with friends A joy in giving presents for no reasons A delight in giving a small bottle of Scottish whisky the joy in giving pleasure to another The pleasure in planting some crocus A mixture of an assortment...
Cheese is wonderful to eat and describe Affinage : The craft of maturing and aging cheeses, from the French word affine , which translates as finished or refined. An affinage produces the distinctive bloomy, edible rind and creamy interior texture characteristic...
a functioning public school education is vitally necessary to sustain the civic republican values of a democratic republic, one which used to be the case in the USA, at least for a few decades after WWII It is no wonder that it is an open question whether...
Reynolds, whose career spanned almost 200 films and television programs, was best known for the 1972 horror film Deliverance and for the 1977 comedy Smokey and the Bandit. Reynolds' career had a late resurgence in the wake of another film, 1997’s Boogie...
Homeschooling was once small, obscure and a wee bit scary. As a group, they seemed to be running away from the immoral school system, . Homeschooling was brushed off as too quirky and fringe to be taken seriously. But now it is growing: It represents...
When Christopher Columbus discovered the “New World” of America for Spain in 1492, the continent already possessed its own civilisations and cultures that were older and richer than many European countries. Columbus and his fellow Europeans did history...
Blackberries this year are sweeter than ever A wonderful summer of sunshine will benefits This rural peninsula in the west of Scotland has many fields on our hills on the farms here many of these fields are traditionally divided many hedges of hawthorn...
Social capital Social capital may be defined as those resources inherent in social relations which facilitate collective action. Social capital resources include trust, norms, and networks of association representing any group which gathers consistently...
First day at school "Einschulung", German child's very first day of grade school, is a landmark in their lives, and honored throughout Germany as a special occasion. There are family gatherings, ceremonial speeches, music, singing and school traditions,...
Sweden as a great power Significant events took place around the world in the 16th century. Columbus travelled to America. Gutenberg invented the printing press. The Pope, who leads the Catholic Church from Rome, lost control of a large part of his church....
satire is conservative. It might put two fingers up to the powers that be but it is never a challenge to the status quo. By suggesting the powers can be laughed at, it actually reinforces their hold power by diffusing opposition into passive shrugs or...
Oratory is an educational environment that aims to open up to young people, and to enable them to develop their own interests. The Oratory should be a welcoming lovely place for the youth to meet and live happily. .The Oratory rules the rules of social...
Oratorium (Salezjanie) - a work carried out by the Salesians; place of study, fun, prayer and work for young people. The first oratory was founded by Saint. Jana Bosko on Valdocco in Turin. There, Father Bosko gathered difficult and poor young people...
As part of France, the official language of Martinique for its government, schools, newspapers, and media is French. However, the vernacular which is spoken in most informal and family contexts is Creole. Derived mostly from French (with sprinklings from...
In the Weirdstone of Brisingamen - there's a scene in it where the protagonists, Colin and Susan, are escaping from morthbrood through a labyrinth of mine shafts and caves. They come to the smallest, merest crack, which involves wriggling through under...
“Thou Shalt Not Steal” is found almost universally at the core of religious commandments and secular legal systems. The implication of this is that property, and property ownership, are universally considered to be of central importance. And not just...
BBC have more than 4,000 journalists. Out of those journalists none investigate. This became apparent with the Scottish Referendum. Most of the reporting was merely opinion over the facts. The BBC opinion was not reflecting after any investigation. This...
