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Now of Kate Middleton, 18-carat sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring. Formerly of princess Diana Spencer, Prince William’s mom – photo.
Nihal’s programme on the BBC Asian Network, a page about Sai Baba and one of the most important events for the UK. And the same post here. Here, here and here pages about this event.
Thursday April 28, 2011
Updated on Friday April 25, 2011
How to dye Easter eggs: brewed coffee, blueberries, yellow onion skins, beet juice, cranberry juice, paprika, turmeric, purple grape juice, red cabbage, spinach or grass and red wine.
Easter egg decorating ideas: bluebird egg, you name it eggs, lazy daisy eggs, the perfect pair, speckled eggs, zoo-egg-ology, preppy eggs, bling bling eggs and have a nice day eggs.
Easter crafts such as bloomin’ baskets and more or Easter baskets. More about Easter here, here and here and the same post here.
Monday April 18, 2011
Blog and travel blog
A profile of mine about RD and another one
A video album of mine about RD.
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Thursday April 14, 2011
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A group of Muslims has questioned the legitimacy of the halal chicken. I have read about it in a page by Asian Network Reports, a British programme by the Asian Network with Rozina Sini. Do you agree with this choice?
A cartoon. The Mayo Clinic, a cartoon by Feggo and the Reader’s Digest.
Blog. Why signing up to my blog? To read someting else about food, music and cinema. Please see the right side of this page.
And why following my tweets, becoming a friend of mine on Facebook and so on? Simply to chat with me or interact. My profiles in Plurk, I Like, Bebo, Friendfeed, Twitter and Facebook. And do you listen to BBC Asian Network (videos) or 6 Music (videos)?
No sound for Asian Britain? Save the BBC Asian Network! From a blog and a deejay with a post of some months ago:
Trust has received 1000 complaints to keep Asian Network open. This is ridiculous. The station is key to the Asian music scene. Seems apathy has reared it’s ugly head in regards to Save BBC Asian Network. Come on everyone, we can do better than 1000 complaints. EMAIL srconsultation@bbc.co.uk NOW to Save BBC Asian Network. Just be honest. Keep it simple or state your reasons for not closing it down.
A cake. Date and walnut cake, a video.
A playlist of mine about food.
Music. A playlist of mine.
Another playlist of mine.
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Vanilla icecream, Vanilla Toffee Crunch and Chunky Monkey
Chocolate and more. Vanilla Bean, Strawberries & Cream, Double Chocolate, Mango & Passion Fruit Madness, Lemon Meringue, Cappuccino and Sticky Toffee Fudge
Mango & Banana Smoothie, Banana & Strawberry Smoothie, Frozen Yogurt, Cappuccino and Chocolate Icecream
Bananas. From Bengali a recipe, the Mochar’s ghonto with bananas.
Darwin Deez. Radar Detector – please watch this video.
Album. A playlist of mine about this singer.
Wednesday March 31, 2010
updated on Saturday September 18, 2010
Malt Shop Memories Cruise. For another cruise please see also below.
Music. A playlist of mine.
On the radio. An Internet radio station, Hiphoplounge.net.
Barbados and the Caribbean. Seven nights in Barbados – it should be in the Atlantic – from 789 pounds.And do you know the Carlise Bay?
The supplier is Tropical sky and the accomodation the Island Inn hotel. For another destination in the Caribbean islands, please see also below.
Cefalù and Taormina. The Rocca in Cefalù – near Palermo, Sicily – and Guardian Cottages and Villas (Cottageselection.co.uk), visible through the website of The Observer. Casa Mara in Taormina.
Agrigento, Palermo, Piazza Armerina and Taormina. Seven nights in Sicily from 799 punds supplied for the Guardian Holiday Offers by Riviera Travel. You would visit the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, Palermo, the Casale villa in Piazza Armerina and Taormina visited by Lawrence.
Ocean Countess. The Guardian Holiday Offers and British Isles Discovery Cruise by the ship Ocean Countess ex Hull. Well, for a price range from 474 pounds and 9 nights you will visit Jersey, the Eden Project, the isles of Scilly, Dublin, Skye and the Orkneys. The supplier is Newmarket Holidays.
– Greek night in the ship Ocean Countess.
– The new Observer. A short history of this Sunday newspaper.
– Stoke-on-Trent for The Guardian, Laura Barton and Felix Clay. Categories are available and you may also vote below.
Saint Lucia and the Caribbean. The same website offers an holiday in Saint Lucia in the Caribbean for 7 nights at 899 pounds. Probably tourists will see the Twin Piton Peaks and Castries. In this case the supplier is Tropical Sky and the place where you could sleep is Almond Smugglers Cove.
The Observer, Bedford, near New York, and travel
Florida and… Laos, drugs from a tourist point of view and the reporter Ian Belcher. Cruises, southern Florida and the Oasis of the Seas. Gloria Estefan, Robbie Williams’s “Angels”, Fleetwood Mac and the Abba… A report by Tim Adams for The Observer.
P. S. Voting your favourite cruise destination or Laos is easy. Please see below.
– The Kasabian, their song Underdog from their album West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum. Have you heard something else by Tom Meighan and Sergio Pizzorno?
A playlist of mine.
A list and the EU. A list of airlines banned within the EU, a page by the European Commission.
Canada. Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, and tourism. Please see or vote also below.
Turkey – 02.12.09 Turkey and tourism. Don’t you really need to go to Rome? Or do you?
A travel guide to this country between Europe and Middle East, the official tourist website for the UK or the one for the USA and other countries. Trip Advisor and visiting this country.
21.11.09 – Fishing and Jack London. Fishing in British Columbia, Canada, and Jack London’s White Fang. I do not know this book and I hope there is no mistake. If there is a travel destination for your fishing, please state below by choosing or adding your favourite place.
07.11.09 Shrewsbury would be birthplace of Charles Darwin. This town would be in the UK, in the West Midlands, about 60 miles west of Birmingham. I would also write to you that you may vote for the best travel destination for a poll of this blog. Please see below and yuo may also add new places…
– Shrewsbury Tourism or – written in another way – Visit Shrewsbury
14.10.09 – Hierapolis. A travel to Hierapolis, Pamukkale and Oludeniz in Turkey? Here’s an opinion and some photos… And what about Gocek, Fethiye, Uzumulu, Mugla, Denizli, Laodikya, Tavas, Ula and Cameli? Leblebli (roasted chickpeas), Aphrodisias, Temple of Aphrodite, Hadrian baths and the Travertines…?
Naples, Amalfi and… The Observer, Tom Hall of Lonely Planet: Denizli, Fethiye, Istanbul, Pamukkale Express and Haydarpasa station. And Naples and Amalfi in Italy
– Ssese’s Islands and the Mediterranean countries
01.12.2008 – There was a lot of water in Venice. Here’s the “Historic Center of Venice Flooded” as an American newspaper – the New York Times – refers. More or less the same text in the British Guardian and another English newspaper, The Telegraph, gives some advice for travellers. Bbc News uses some photos or titles “Venice is hit by serious flooding” and Cnn “Parts of Venice neck deep in flood water” or AlJazeera “Venice hit by severe flooding”. Instead, the Huffington Post chooses “Venice Hit By Worst Flooding In More Than 20 Years” and Euronews “Flooding alert in Venice”.
Agrigento, Porto Empedocle, Cattolica Eraclea and Eraclea Minoa or Caltabellotta, Porto Palo and Sciacca… Camastra and Licata
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Vanilla icecream, Vanilla Toffee Crunch and Chunky Monkey
Mango & Banana Smoothie, Banana & Strawberry Smoothie, Frozen Yogurt, Cappuccino and Chocolate Icecream
December 1, 2008
updated on Thursday April 01, 2010
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Reader’s Digest and food
Olive and oregano pizza. More about olives here and about pizzas here.
Video albums of mine about RD, food and cookery and vegetables.
Vanilla icecream, Vanilla Toffee Crunch and Chunky Monkey
Chocolate and more. Mango & Banana Smoothie, Banana & Strawberry Smoothie, Frozen Yogurt, Cappuccino and Chocolate Icecream.
Blog. Why signing up to my blog? To read someting else about food and Reader’s Digest. Please see the right side of this page.
And why following my tweets, becoming a friend of mine on Facebook and so on? Simply to chat with me or interact. My profiles in Plurk, I Like, Bebo, Friendfeed, Twitter and Facebook. And do you listen to BBC Asian Network (videos)?
No sound for Asian Britain? Save the BBC Asian Network! Many months ago from a blog and a deejay:
Trust has received 1000 complaints to keep Asian Network open. This is ridiculous. The station is key to the Asian music scene. Seems apathy has reared its ugly head in regards to Save BBC Asian Network. Come on everyone, we can do better than 1000 complaints. EMAIL srconsultation@bbc.co.uk NOW to Save BBC Asian Network. Just be honest. Keep it simple or state your reasons for not closing it down.
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Wednesday September 23, 2010
Fort Lauderdale and tourism.
Preserved kumquats and cooking one of them for cranberry sauce (video).
Christmas and New Year. Christmas, pistachios and marsala for Kathryn Flett and the Observer. Reader’s Digest and their best Christmas recipes. New Year’s Eve Party? Champagne cocktails and appetizers.
Mascarpone sorbet, thyme honey glazed chicken breast and pear – chocolate jam.
Vanilla icecream, Vanilla Toffee Crunch and Chunky Monkey
Mango & Banana Smoothie, Banana & Strawberry Smoothie, Frozen Yogurt, Cappuccino and Chocolate Icecream.
Andrea Bocelli, Natalie Cole and Mary J. Blige. Natalie Cole, Mary J. Blige and the Muppets in PBS’ My Christmas (a video).
03.12.09 Military cartoons by Dave Carpenter in RD.com, the press and a chess game. “He’s embedded with the troops.”
21.11.09 Party houses for Chistmas and New Year in the UK in Cumbria, Sterling, the Isle of Bute and Monmouthshire. Cumbrian Cottages, the Landmark Trust and Caledonian MacBrayne.
Madoff. The Wall Street financier Bernard “Bernie” Madoff pleaded guilty last March “in front of a New York courtroom”. I am referring to an article by the British newspaper “The Guardian” according to which Mr. Madoff confessed to 11 criminal charges of fraud, money-laundering, false statements and perjury and of “operating a corrupt business empire dating back to the early 1990s”.
The “once-respected Wall Street fixture”, who might be condemned next June to a punishment of “150-year jail term”, “has been the subject of death threats”, according to the newspaper, and “was surrounded by a tight security detail”. I think this aspect may be important to demonstrate how the economic turmoil has affected the everyday life of most Americans. If someone receives a death threat, something very important should be happened, shouldn’t it? Unless the USA are a country where very mad people live…
Florida, Switzerland and the UK. Madoff – the journalist Andrew Clark writes – described in the courtroom “how his scheme originated in the early 1990s when a recession made it difficult to produce healthy returns. Instead of investing in stocks and shares, he began using new deposits to pay out fake profits to existing clients”. What follows next in the Guardian’s article by Andrew Clark is: “The financier said that at the outset, he had been falsifying records on a temporary basis”. Moreover, Madoff “described laundering money through a London branch of his company to create a false paper trail”. The newspaper, like many media in that days, used the expressions “Ponzi scheme” and “pyramid selling in the US” (cash from new customers or investors – Phillip Inman explains in the Guardian – is given to existing investors). And this situation should have affected areas like Florida, Switzerland and the UK.
But just return now to the texts I have written about Christmas and financial turmoil…
Christmas time – 05.11.09. Maybe Christmas Market in Prague and Czech Republic? There is the Hotel Tiepolo with prices from 45 euros in a single standard room during low season (from January 7 to March 31 and from November 4 to December 26) to 209 euros for a quintupla superior room during holiday time (from March 21 to March 25, May 1 to May 4 and December 27 to January 6).
And you could also vote about travel destinations for my blog… Please see below. Do you also know that a pound should be exchanged with 89 eurocents and a dollar with 1,48 euros?
Northern Germany. Christmas in Hamburg with its Christmas markets.
24.12.08 How is Christmas according to three British newspapers? The Independent writes about Christmas in Basra (Iraq) and the Guardian offers its readers a travel quiz and a dinner guide or writes about the British government that “slams” a television channel over Ahmadinejad Christmas message.
The Telegraph gives importance to Queen Elizabeth’s emphasis on family and refers her acknowledgement that this Christmas was a “sombre occasion” for many people who had lost their jobs or their homes because of the financial turmoil. Duncan Gardham, the Telegraph’s security correspondent reports on the alternative Christmas message and Matthew Moore summarises the archbishops’ blames.
– Your favourite travel destination (please vote)
– Which is your best song? (please vote)
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Wednesday December 24, 2008
updated on Sunday March 21 2010
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