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LIFE IS WHAT WE MAKE IT!

Here is what I am making of it: complete and unabridged, the whole nine yards, warts and all (all the clichés I can find, that is).

COME IN, lose some weight, find a recipe, learn how-to, discover how not-to; it's all here.


There's a whole wide wonderful world out there, I love it and want to share ... so enjoy!

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Being a wee bit bemused by the English language myself and realising that home-schoolers especially may be interested, when this came in today I immediately thought of you ... ...

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  Aaaah!  The modern age ...  what one word could we use to sum it up? What single word will encapsulate our modern ethos for all of posterity?I'll bet that after studying my title...

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 I offer the following webbie to any young student desperate to make sense of mathematics, to any silly old poop desperate to make sense of mathematics, and most especially to any parental-type...

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  Everyone loves taking photographs.  It's one of those things made possible by technology and capitalism; I remember a time when only the lucky few had cameras.  As a kid I had a...

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   In Invercargill there's a large shop run by a charity.  It was formerly a supermarket and still has matching parking; 'Habitat For Humanity' is actually human nature writ large. ...

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  Music hath charms, sayeth the thage, to thoothe the thavage beast (or was that 'breast')? Either way: although the sense of smell is arguably our most evocative the sense of music...

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  This came in tonight.  I have no idea where it originated or to whom I owe my thanks, but it just had to be shared ... enjoy! ===== Q Economic Models explained with Cows - 2008...

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  A few days ago my beloved Spouse went down with bugs.  Nothing unusual in this per se, lots of people get colds or flus (flues if they're smokers?) at this time of year. Actually,...

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  An exercise in nostalgia, or: was it really better then?  You choose ... There's a scene in "You've Got Mail" where an inoffensive weedy-nerdy type is forced to make a...

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  Two variations on a theme and the name of the theme is "Go ride yer bike!" Speaking of which, I remember the naval issue bikes of yore, huge black things ("Pusser's...

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   "There's more people alive in the world now than have ever lived." I heard this again just the other day and as always it grated me. It grabbed me by the ears and swung...

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   A brief converstion last night went a bit like this: "I loaded your toothbrush." "Huh? Oops ... eh, wot?" "Are you blogging again? I said I loaded your...

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  This came in tonight (I've often wondered who thinks these things up?). Then I think I really don't want to know, I just read 'em and enjoy. Stop me if you've seen it before ...=====On...

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This came in tonight. It's amateurish but has the ring of truth (either that or those guys are better than World Class as actors). But if you like popcorn, it's a fun way to cook! ================== http://www.maniacworld.com/making-popcorn-with-cell-phones-II.html ================== I...

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This is the true stuff of fairy tales. Some might say the major player (actually, the only player) is a madman; nice, well intentioned, but nevertheless two squids short of a...

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I love the humourist's observations and theories on Life, the Universe, and Everything Else. Humour often penetrates much closer to the nitty than blind science, and that in a nutshell. I...

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A timely coincidence. I've been drifting in this direction myself over the last many years and my current readings are pulling me towards an intellectual abyss — and tonight I found...

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 A fatalistic type myself, I accept that out there in space somewhere the Fates have long since spun my string, measured it, and will one day cut it to length.  KISMET and all that...

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  For decades now I have been amusing myself with cranks, nutters, lunatics, and a few wackies.  Mostly they are harmless (and apparently well-intentioned); but sometimes — if just...

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  This came in by e-mail yesterday. I haven't tried it myself and have no intention of so doing, pushing buttons on gadgets when I don't really know for myself what might happen doesn't...

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In a recent post I asked if the temperature of Hell was dropping yet?And in the region of not-coincidences, I remembered reading this (below) some time ago (think I could refind it...

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   Is he rude-crude-and-unattractive?  Or is he windswept and interesting?  However you view Billy Connolly he's a perspicacious character. He makes us think.  Worse, he makes us...

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It's a cool cool autumn down here in subby Southland. There's much more snow on the Takis and now snow on the Longwoods. Snow is also predicted for tomorrow "Down to 500 metres" but...

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   Brrrrr.   Facts in this modern world move fast. I wrote the following this morning (now yesterday) over a long latté and only did my web roaming once I got home. I found tonight's...

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   If you like to read a lot,  if you have eclectic tastes,  if you seek wisdom and/or simple entertainment;  if the works you are after have been out of print for oodles,  or if you...

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  Cranks.  Crank 'sciences'.  Charlatans.  Gullibles.  Fools, dupes, wishful thinkers.Astrologers.  Oracles.  Snake-oil sellers. People who sell bed linen with cute little magnets...

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   Chemicals in plastics playing merry hell with human health?  Who really knows ... but the Canadians at least seem convinced.  (Anyway, good things come in glass — like my home-made...

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Autumn is closing in fast now and the plants — several hundred thousand of them, so far — are turning from drab summer green to the most outrageous reds (think lines of...

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Autumn is closing in fast now and the plants — several hundred thousand of them, so far — are turning from drab summer green to the most outrageous reds (think lines of...

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  Two little girls and human nature writ huge.I was sitting in Bookers café with cooling latté, watching with jaundiced eye the parade of passing people plodding about their lawful...