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We have been urged since time immemorial never to judge a book by its cover. Not so in the case of this latest offering from Nigel Slater at Fourth Estate. It is a quite beautiful book with a slip off section in the dust jacket to reveal the stylis (read full article)
This summer is absolutely glorious! The hot, sunny days give way to good and proper rainy days, and the garden is just flourishing!The first pumpkin is beginning to colour.The tomatoes are cropping up everywhere! It looks like I'm going to have anoth (read full article)
I have a CD of Raj Patel's Seattle conference to give away. It is unfortunately not the entire book Stuffed and Starved on CD, but merely a 50 minute lecture. It is, however, a very enlightening and entertaining lecture on the importance of being con (read full article)
So you know how one random act quite often leads onto another? Well today I went to chant with one of my buddshist leaders that I am supporting for her lecture next month. Normal journey time to Reading 30 minutes. My journey time 2 hours and 10 minu (read full article)
Les mosquées sont plus habitées pendant le mois de Ramadan que tout autre période de l’année puisqu’en même temps après la prière du Maghreb (coucher du soleil), l’Imam de la mosquée récite à chaque soir une partie du Coran (Juz) pe (read full article)
La population d’une société vit selon le jeûne du mois de Ramadan. Dans plusieurs pays arabes, certains magasins ferment durant les périodes plus chaudes de la journée, mais également pour rompre le jeûne et faire la prière. On a l’imp (read full article)
Quoique le jeûne soit une pratique qui demande beaucoup au niveau du corps mais aussi au niveau mental, le musulman se doit de bien agir pendant ce mois. Les autres mois de l’année devraient servir comme exemple pour parfaire le mois de Ramadan (read full article)
This years Mayday parade was once again a huge bust. The plants just refuse to cooperate! Every year I get dressed up in my Dear Leader outfit, stand up on the edge of the deck and nothing, no parade! This year, no more mister nice-guy! Today I’m s (read full article)
The Last Lecture Randy Pausch was a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University who was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and was selected to deliver a lecture as part of Carnegie Mellon’s Last Lecture Serie (read full article)
No! Don't eat that, you're big enough already.Are you really going to eat that? Really?...Really?I suggest you not order that. (said with a raised eyebrow)Are you TRYING to kill yourself? I've heard so many variations of those four statements/questio (read full article)