This last week, I failed a bit and then I won. Saturday morning I decided that I should have that traditional British stalwart, marmalade, on toast to go with my coffee.I love marmalade and it’s so rare to find it in Brazil, and when you do, it’s expensive. Now, I was blogging at the time. [...]
Archive for November, 2011
28 Nov
Monday Moaning
I’m having a go at waste. Yup kitchen trash is being wasted, good compostable material is being thrown into rubbish/trash cans all over the world. Nearly everything you throw out from the kitchen, with the exception of plastic and specially treated cardboard from some containers can be composted. I love composting, all the soil in [...]
27 Nov
Broads are home to rare plants and animals
A quarter of the UK’s rarest plants and animals are found in the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads, according to a survey. The University of East Anglia (UEA) researchers believe it is the highest concentration of such species found in one area, including some that do not appear anywhere else in Britain. But they also identified [...]
23 Nov
Change the World Wednesday – 23rd Nov
After a heavy tropical rainstorm overnight which I was afraid would threaten the peace and harmony, not to mention the power, here we are. The power cut never happened. I mentioned last week about the ‘amendoeira’ tree in our front yard shading the house. In the photo of Emerson & Erick (my stepsons) you can [...]
22 Nov
Here today, Maybe gone tomorrow
The irony of discovery and progress. Dutch botanists have made a remarkable discovery. The discovery was made possible by the logging industry on the island of New Britain near Papua New Guinea; the irony is that the very industry that created the opportunity for the discovery, may well be the author of its demise: Botanists [...]
21 Nov
Monday Moaning
Milk, yuck! When I was a kid millions of years ago (1950s) we used to get a cream bottle of milk 300ml or a half pint) every day. It was okay in the winter, but in the summer it was yucky and tepid, vomitingly tepid; some kids did actually chunder. Do you understand the concept [...]
20 Nov
Visible from Space
Giant tyre mound visible from space The sprawling pile of hundreds of thousands of tyres isn’t easy to spot from the ground, sitting in a rural South Carolina clearing accessible by only a circuitous dirt path that winds through thick patches of trees. No one knows how all those tyres got there, or when. But, [...]
18 Nov
Make you Fink on Friday
Nuclear energy isn’t safe – Chernobyl and more recently Japan’s Fukushima. Fossil fuels aren’t safe – Exxon and more recently Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. In each and every case the companies and authorities involved have cut corners, ignored environmental regulations, trimmed safety guidelines, lied, downplayed the extent of the damage, hidden evidence [...]
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