Square eyes

Hell's Kitchen finalists Ade Edmundson (Vivian from the Young Ones) and Linda Evans - both made interesting comments - Ade said he would like to take away from the experience to try to be braver and "Linda, Linda, Linda .. where's my crab" .. will go home with Ade withdrawal..

my own opinion they are all pussycats including Marco Pierre

Well done Jenson Button, Rubens and Brawn

Chocolate Sachertorte

Chocolate heaven
http://www.sacher.com/en-original-sacher-tart.htm

know its spring but Kartoffelpuffer or Reibekuchen, they're so good - served with apple sauce from a street stand and taste just wonderful walking around outside especially in the winter as it gets dark and lights come on

Jordan's Big Buzzzzz and Bee Line

The Big Buzz campaign wants to help Britain’s bees buzz happily by filling your garden with free, bee-friendly plants

Jordans have created a fun message system, the Bee-Line that allows you to send your friends a message by bee, giving you a new way to stay in touch and spread the news of the Big Buzz.
You can send a Bee-Line to your friends by visiting
http://www.jordansbigbuzz.co.uk/funny-honey-stuff/bee-line

Looking for dragons

Happy St George's Day

Bamboo Bikes

http://timbuktuchronicles.blogspot.com/2009/04/bamboo-bike-project.html

League table of European youngsters' well-being

Maybe its about money and the social system, Elterngeld exists in Germany, France and Scandinavia.

A huge incentive in Scandinavian countries is that parents can share being off work during the first year of their new baby's life at around two thirds their annual salary and this continues into the second and third year, although at a lower rate. And when baby number two comes along after the third year, this system starts again

Maybe this is what whoever holds the purse in UK Government could be thinking about to make happier children and maybe other countries in Europe working long hours. Encourage families to be togethor and not so stressed at least when the children are little - think this would be worth paying more tax for

Not surprisingly in Scandinavian countries which are top of this league table, family policies have a downside for women, companies are reluctant to hire or promote women because they take so much time off to raise their children.

5 Paintball tickets for sponsorship for 'Cycle for Chile' - each ticket is for 8 people..

for whole day at one of 35 paintball centres in the UK and is worth £50's

Ticket includes equipment hire - helmets, body armour and commando battlepack and full public liability insurance for 8 people. Tickets are valid until March 2010

Please contact: info@honeybeeswax.com if youre interested

Conservation of the Rodrigues flying fox

looks a little like an upside down Zorro http://www.animalinfo.org/species/bat/pterrodr.htm

extreem sheepys

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/?bcpid=4464161001&bctid=17075685001

Crazy, wonderful and sometimes very sad

http://www.life.com

Seems we drive on the left hand side in the UK

because knights in the Middle Ages riding on horseback wanted to keep their right hand, usually their sword hand ready ... so they would keep to the left when travelling.

and for same reason many countries under French rule at some time, drive on the right as Napoleon was left handed

Rent a cherry tree

The price of renting a cherry tree is £35. For this, the orchard will look after your tree for you to pick at harvest. All the cherries on ‘your’ tree are yours.

As a guide, the price of cherries in supermarkets can range from £6 - £12 a kilogram. The yield on your tree will vary, but in an optimum year could be as much as 15-20 kilograms.

http://www.rentacherrytree.co.uk/

Old oak tree

near my mum and dad's home, an old oak tree fell down last year and have a slab of the tree to make a table, its taken some time to sand it down but counted the rings today and there are about 130 - guess that means it was a little acorn in ~1878.

Thats when weather data started to be collected, Cleopatras Needle arrived in London, Thomas Edison patented the gramophone, the Edison light company began, some of the first telephone exchanges were installed, the Tokyo Stock exchange was established and Disraeli anticipated war with Russia

Chile Cycle Challange for Computer Aid International

http://www.justgiving.com/cycleforchile