/> In decades well gone by, Christmas (in Britain anyway) was about TWO things and those two things were ‘GOD’ and ‘CHILDREN’, weren’t they? Yes, and it was a time also when families made a big effort to get together to celebrate the event over the holiday period as well, didn’t they? Well, what has […]
Cheese making is an art, a historic and ancient craft no less. It is of course a way of using and preserving milk, concentrating & coagulating the protein, and giving it a relatively long life. The skill in cheesemaking involves creation of a product with fairly consistent specific taste, texture, smell, and looks. A […]
The polls show that the majority, and nearly double the number of people, think that the State should actually do more than it does now, than think it should do less – does that surprise us all then? If we look at the political parties then, those in favour of doing LESS include the Conservatives, […]
Without doubt the cycle has been the best transport system invention the World has ever seen, hasn’t it? Without doubt the car has been the worst transport system invention the World has ever seen, hasn’t it? The very worst thing done in the United Kingdom (and America) was to remove a hundred years ago the […]
The Charge of the Light Brigade was a suicidal charge by British light cavalry against Russian artillery during the Crimean War’s Battle of Balaclava in 1854. Lord Cardigan doggedly led his troops under decimating withering fire on a full frontal assault in totally the wrong direction against the mistaken guns. It was a futile […]
French footballer Nicolas Anelka, currently an important striker playing for UK Premiership club West Bromwich Albion is in serious trouble. He celebrated scoring a goal against London’s West Ham last December, by giving a special salute, known as the quenelle gesture – this is performed by pointing one arm diagonally palm down, while at the […]
/> It keeps coming every year Christmas (or Xmas as the lazy would have it!) – Always starting in the retailers at a ridiculously early time! If you ever go out shopping in the week before Christmas you are astonished at the activity, especially in the food supermarkets – you wait in the massive queues […]
Felicia Hemans Picture “The Destruction of L’Orient at the Battle of the Nile” George Arnald, 1827, National Maritime Museum, in Greenwich, London, England In about eighteen hundred there was a critical and major naval sea battle in the Mediterranean (the battle of the Nile – between English and French forces) with a youngster named Giocante […]
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