Why is that nobody can understand...
Answer: there are gnomes with computers, spreadsheets and models in the gas company, the electricity company, the phone company who want to maximize profits, and devise very complicated "packages"...
Go fish.
After we legally scrapped the Ford at DROF (now gone underneath the Olympic Park in East London) we had to walk. So we walked to the allotment along the Limehouse Cut, and we walked to the shops.
We now shop only what we can carry home. This means we shop more often (no weekly shop for us). Since I have the time, I often shop for food just for the day. This means that we tend to waste less... and of course food waste can go on the allotment compost heap.
If food is left, leftovers are good for the next day or the day after. Many dishes get better the second time around, notably fassoulada... or veggie curry, which may have new secrets to reveal.
The recipes for the two curries - aloo gobi and chana masala - are from Andy Murray's book The Heretic's Guide to Vegan Cookery which has sold out of the first edition and is now fetching high prices!
Take a look at http://m.facebook.com/ and compare with http://www.facebook.com/
I started to use http://m.facebook.com/ in a moment of idleness today, and was quickly connected to a link (off a friends page) of great interest. The view from http://m.facebook.com/ is the Facebook of a year or two ago, and has all that is required to connect, and no more. I have lost contact with at least one aspect of the my friends' Facebook activity modes with the current interface (at http://www.facebook.com/).
Progress? Not really, just plain feature bloat.
Lager ...is one of two main types of beer; the other being ale."
Real Ale in the UK is still a minority drink, compared to lager. The bland taste, the almost freezing temperature and the standard quality are tempting; complex tastes, room temperature and variable quality are avoided by the majority. In the past, only ales would have been available, and mild was drunk since it was low in alcohol.
Don't get me wrong. I drink lager as as well as real ale. In Spain I was surprised to find the "Alahambra" brewery, and drank the beer in Granada, a few steps from the brewery.
What bugs me is the uniformity and the standards. Our culture is now very homogeneous. We like the look, so that singer has to be an attractive young woman to succeed. Everything, from politics to shampoo has to fit the brief, whittled out of focus groups.
Your face has to fit. And if doesn't, then you are in trouble....
In Farenheit 451 the state is trying very hard to make all people the same, to reduce variance. Books are likely to make people think, and be different. Hence, all books are burnt.
