Joan Halifax: Compassion and the true meaning of empathy http://www.ted.com/talks/joan_halifax.html How lovely would it be to walk in her shoes, I love the Buddhist philosophy but they do have some...
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it.) If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months,...
Onwards and Downwards Continues in June 2013 Hello all, Sick of talking about the weather so as per a brilliant suggestion from xstitcher, what is your favourite slimming salad to eat in the summer...
Why? Why does having your photograph taken make you feel like that -what do you think it is that makes you like that? I'm really intrigued especially as I find that people who dont want their...
I have a small brick lean-to which has asbestos insulating board fixed on battens under the roof tiles. Is it feasible, and indeed advisable, to enclose these with a second suspended ceiling to make...
http://m.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/18/chinese-city-yulin-dog-meat-festival
And why aren't petitions made public sooner so this can be stopped?
Words fail me......
Come on you OAPs like me ;) how many of these "ageing pastimes" can you admit to? Stupid really as some of the 50 things on the list in the article, OH and I have been doing for the last 45 years!!!...
What do you do when you lose your temper? Today I got really angry for the first time in I don't know how long. I had a think and realised I can only really lose my temper on behalf of someone...
Does the mystery of death scare you? The fact that at one point it will all go black and you'll never see anyone you love ever again or be able to enjoy the things in life that you love so much? The...
Afternoon everyone, We're going to be doing some general maintenance on the site this evening. I've been assured that it's more or less the same as doing some spring cleaning. They're probably...
My wife and I are in dispute. She puts out Chicken scraps and Chicken bones for the local Fox. She says its not the local cats eating the bones it can only be the Fox. I have seen the Cats come to the...
Just a laugh here mind you - can anybody tell me just before you shower - you do your "business in the loo" - then you scour yourself with one of those green scourers majig with fantastic shower gel....
We have been told by a Muslim ABer that the people of Islam are coming to the west, not for a better life, but to show us ‘the way’. Most of the major problems the world is currently experiencing...
Charles Saatchi has got his wife, Nigella Lawson by the throat in a restaurant in London. Criticism is being levelled at onlookers who didn't intervene. Would you intervene between man and wife in...
There was an interesting interview with David Icke in yesterdays Sunday Times Magazine. I am not able to provide a link here but I expect many people will have read it. Here is a link to his own...
My main e-mail address keeps failing to deliver my e-mails. It says something about 500+ failure and keeps returning 554 when I click on it. 554 being part of a massive page. Does anyone have a clue...
have you all had a good day? What have you been up to?
Me not much, been to see my GP (quite funny that) that's been about it, Quiet night on the cards just me and my book or a DVD...