Sunday 6 November 2016
The UK's top 20 most-watched television programmes
This week marks the 80th anniversary of the first official broadcast on British television and to mark the occasion, a list of the most-watched TV programmes has been compiled.
At the top of the list is Only Fools and Horses, with more than 24 million people tuning in to watch David Jason's Del Boy finally become a millionaire on 29 December 1996. The show features three more times in the rankings, including two other shows from Christmas 1996.
In second place is a November 1979 episode of To the Manor Born, starring Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles.
Other programmes include Coronation Street and Martin Bashir's 1995 Panorama interview with Princess Diana, in which she discussed Prince Charles's extra-marital affairs.read more
Saturday 5 November 2016
help save the African elephants
please see as this video has been blockedf so much for a good deed -http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0813xr2/saving-africas-elephants-hugh-and-the-ivory-war-episode-1-http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0822ld8/saving-africas-elephants-hugh-and-the-ivory-war-episode-2
THE STORY OF THE POPPY The inspiration behind the poppy as a symbol of Remembrance.
During the First World War (1914–1918) much of the fighting took place in Western Europe. Previously beautiful countryside was blasted, bombed and fought over, again and again. The landscape swiftly turned to fields of mud: bleak and barren scenes where little or nothing could grow.
Bright red Flanders poppies (Papaver rhoeas) however, were delicate but resilient flowers and grew in their thousands, flourishing even in the middle of chaos and destruction. In early May 1915, shortly after losing a friend in Ypres, a Canadian doctor, Lt Col John McCrae was inspired by the sight of poppies to write a now famous poem called 'In Flanders Fields'.
McCrae’s poem inspired an American academic, Moina Michael, to make and sell red silk poppies which were brought to England by a French woman, Anna Guérin. The (Royal) British Legion, formed in 1921, ordered 9 million of these poppies and sold them on 11 November that year. The poppies sold out almost immediately and that first ever 'Poppy Appeal' raised over £106,000; a considerable amount of money at the time. This was used to help WW1 veterans with employment and housing.
The following year, Major George Howson set up the Poppy Factory to employ disabled ex-Servicemen. Today, the factory and the Legion's warehouse in Aylesford produces millions of poppies each year.read more
Widnes worm Dave wriggles into record books
An earthworm named Dave has wriggled into the record books as the largest found in the UK - measuring a whopping 40cm (15.7in).
Experts at the Natural History Museum bestowed the accolade upon the annelid after it ventured above ground in a vegetable plot in Widnes, Cheshire.
The Lumbricus terrestris was studied at the museum before being killed in what staff called "the sad bit of science".
It is now in a jar and will be "kind of immortal", the museum said.-read more and see video
Tuesday 1 November 2016
Sunday 30 October 2016
Plan to re-establish royal favourite fish in the River Severn
Since the installation of weirs in the river in the 19th century many fish species, including the Shad, have been unable to swim upriver to their ancient spawning grounds.
But the new scheme will see the installation of special fish passes at the weirs in Gloucestershire and Worcestershire so the fish can once again make the journey unhindered.
Twaite Shad and Allis Shad are said to have been favoured in the court of Henry III in the 13th Century, and were once abundant and famed across Europe for their taste and quality.read more
Kitchen fitter, 43, designs body armour for small dogs to protect them from being mauled to death by larger, more aggressive breeds
A kitchen fitter has designed body armour for small dogs to protect them from being mauled by bigger breeds.
Bradley Davis, 43, created the padded suit after hearing about The Only Way Is Essex Star Bobby Norris' beloved pet, Beau, being savaged by a more aggressive dog.
The dog lover spent months researching and perfecting the armour and the safety protection is now available to buy in three sizes.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3882026/Kitchen-fitter-43-designs-body-armour-small-dogs-protect-mauled-death-larger-aggressive-breeds.html#ixzz4Oaxz8LwK
must have for this season white plastic bag on foot.
CAT IS MAN'S BEST FRIEND Street Cat Named Bob
James Bowen says he'd be dead if it wasn't for kitty companionship that gave him a sense of purpose while he was homeless.IT used to be a dog’s life for stray cat Bob. Unloved and unwanted, he slept in cold doorways while nursing an injured leg.
But today he is a furry film star who flies first-class, has his own “Bobbyguards” at public events and his favourite Dairylea Dunkers on tap.The famous ginger tom is the star of A Street Cat Named Bob, directed by Canadian Roger Spottiswoode, which is in cinemas on November 4.
The film is based on the bestselling book of the same title, which has shifted six million copies and tells the story of how Bob’s companionship helped homeless busker James Bowen to win his battle with drug addiction.
Originally, the London puss wasn’t supposed to play himself in the film. The producers had ten specially trained doubles flown over from Canada, but they proved scaredy cats when it came to filming in London at night, so Bob stepped in.read more
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners- Therese Oneill (Author)
Ladies, welcome to the 19th century, where there's arsenic in your face cream, a pot of cold pee sits under your bed, and all of your underwear is crotchless. (Why? Shush, dear. A lady doesn't question.) UNMENTIONABLE is your hilarious, illustrated, scandalously honest (yet never crass) guide to the secrets of Victorian womanhood, giving you detailed advice on:
~ What to wear
~ Where to relieve yourself
~ How to conceal your loathsome addiction to menstruating
~ What to expect on your wedding night
~ How to be the perfect Victorian wife
~ Why masturbating will kill you
~ And more
Irresistibly charming, laugh-out-loud funny, and featuring nearly 200 images from Victorian publications, UNMENTIONABLE will inspire a whole new level of respect for Elizabeth Bennett, Scarlet O'Hara, Jane Eyre, and all of our great, great grandmothers.
(And it just might leave you feeling ecstatically grateful to live in an age of pants, super absorbency tampons, epidurals, anti-depressants, and not-dying-of-the-syphilis-your-husband-brought-home.)
Vatican: No more scattering of cremation ashes
the Vatican have come out with so called new rules for catholic ashes . cannot be scattered ,divided among relatives ,kept at home and suggest you store in a scared place like church or cemetery so the community can remember the dead.i think this idea is wrong and no matter what your beliefs its up to you what you wish to do with loved ones -human or animal .for 2,000 years the church has permitted only burial to show faith in resurrection ,cremation was allowed in 1963 -read article
Kind-hearted carer knits Silky the hairless hamster a woolly jumper to help her keep warm as winter approaches
THIS completely bald hamster wears a jumper to keep warm.
Wrinkly rodent Silky was born without fur so a pet shelter worker knitted her a 5cm woolly jumper.One-year-old Silky was left at the centre by owners who said they were moving fromOregon, US, to a colder area and could no longer care for her.
Staff noticed the shivering hamster huddled in the corner of her cage while desperately trying to stay warm.
The pet has no fur like normal hamsters due to a gene mutation.read more
New era of climate change reality' as emissions hit symbolic threshold
The world is in a new era of “climate change reality”, with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere reaching a symbolic threshold which it will not fall below for many generations, scientists have said.
In 2015, for the first time, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere were at 400 parts per million (ppm) on average across the year as a whole, the World Meteorological Organisation’s (WMO) annual greenhouse gas bulletin reveals.
The longest established greenhouse gas monitoring station in the world, at Mauna Loa in Hawaii, predicts carbon dioxide concentrations will stay above the symbolic 400ppm for the whole of 2016 and reach new highs.
It will not dip below the 400ppm mark again for many generations, the experts said.
The growth spurt in carbon dioxide levels, which saw a bigger-than-average increase in the greenhouse gas in the atmosphere between 2014 and 2015, was fuelled by the El Niño weather phenomenon in the Pacific.-read more
What Is Qi? (and Other Concepts)
After 2,500 years of evolution, TCM has become a very rich and sophisticated system of rational medicine with a great diversity of theories and applications. But, in its essence, itseeks to understand and facilitate harmony in human life.
It is based on a very simple principle: any system that is in harmony tends towards health, wellbeing, and sustainability. A system that is in disharmony tends towards illness, disease, suffering, and collapse.
What is a system in TCM?
A system is comprised of everything that creates and sustains it. Everything is interconnected and interdependent. If all of the parts of a system are in harmony with one another, then the whole system is in harmony. Disturb one thing and you create a disturbance that ripples through the whole system.
This principle applies to any and all systems. For example, it applies as equally to a human being as it does to a family, community, or the environment. So we must take care to consider our actions and to take things as a whole.
What are the fundamental concepts?
Two concepts that are unique and fundamental to Chinese medicine are Qi (usually translated as "vital energy") and yin and yang (the harmony of all the opposite elements and forces that make up existence). These two concepts form what we might call the "roots" of Chinese medicine.
Springing from these roots are the basic principles and theories about the dynamics of Qi and yin and yang, which form the "stems" of Chinese medicine. -read more
Springing from these roots are the basic principles and theories about the dynamics of Qi and yin and yang, which form the "stems" of Chinese medicine. -read more
25-10-2016 robbie r.i.p
benefit call experience.
ringing up for benefit requests is very uninteresting as you listen to the classical music with interruptions of repetitive response with a female voice going over all the options like a bad advert or a repeat on television.you can wait ages and it can fell as if the other end has hung up on you or having a secret joke at your expense ,you dont hang up as that means rebooting the whole process again -inside scream.when finally you get a reply you tend to be asked a lot of security questions almost like a interrogation then the unfriendly jaded voice seem to send you to coventry for a short time until you get item required ,glad dont have to do everyday .
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