With reference to my feelings on Battery Hen welfare, posted last September here I now bring you some pretty good news following a week of celebrity chef documentaries on chickens and chicken farming. Helmanns, who make the UK’s best loved mayonnaise, have announced that they will be introducing a free range line. At bloody last.
Meanwhile, [...]
…Is the question asked on the BBC Magazine website. So, do we? I have to admit that I like to learn something new when reading a novel, even if it’s only a description, a scene being set of a place I’ve never been. There’s nothing like it, being inside someone else’s head. And that’s something [...]
I am annoyed. Very much so.
I know this is old news, but since Sir Ian McKellen has said that it’s looking more and more likely that he will play Gandalf again for The Hobbit, I feel the subject needs to be re-addressed.
Peter Jackson successfully brought Middle Earth alive and into the homes/minds of many people [...]
Wear red tomorrow, the 28th of September 2007. Show support for the peaceful protesters in Burma.
People ARE dying. Running reports can be found at the Guardian’s NewsBlog, and HERE, at Ko-Htike’s blog spot — one very brave person who continues, despite incredible personal danger, to tell the world what is happening.
Quote taken from the live chat box on Ko-htiks’s site a couple of minutes ago: komg: I see all from [...]
In Burma, a group of the most peaceful, compassionate and unassuming human beings are being shot at for demonstrating against the violent regime running their country on bribes and hypocrisy. They have no weapons. The people supporting them have no weapons. Today and yesterday, there were shots fired at them, and still another news report [...]
This weekend, I did this for the first time and was gobsmacked by the amount of CRAP produced along only a small stretch of Wales’ coastline. Wow, our species is sooooo messy and uncaring. Yes uncaring, and here’s why:
A couple of weeks ago I was out and about at a hot-air balloon festival where there [...]
I am truly saddened to hear of the death of Anita Roddick. She died yesterday of a massive brain haemorrhage aged only 64 years old.
This woman pioneered fair-trade, human rights, beauty without cruelty… All this and still she made a fortune. She worked for feminism by getting her hands dirty, by challenging the male-dominated world [...]
How many books a year do you read, and has this amount anything to do with how much sex you’re having? Take part in a small, cozied-up survey over on Bryan D Catherman’s blog.
Women read more fiction than men. It’s official. An interesting article at NPR found by reading Bryan D Catherman’s blog.