first ever at-home meditation video featuring homeless cats

It’s well known that meditation can work wonders for our health. What’s more, thanks to science we now know that cat videos can reduce stress and make us happy. But could the two be combined to create the definitive wellbeing routine that could also benefit homeless cats?

The answer is ‘yes’!

Blue Cross has released the first ever guided meditation cat video. Working with mindfulness experts at London Mindful, the 10-minute video class, called ‘Karma Kitties’, marries the essential principles of mindfulness classes with cute rescue cat video clips and the soothing sounds of cats.

The meditation video features an adorable cast of homeless cats and kittens cared for at our rehoming centres, all showcasing their innate therapeutic powers. Through specific imagery and sounds of cats purring, playing, sleeping and snoozing, the guided class allows the viewer to focus on, and pay attention to, the sensations, thoughts and emotions evoked by the pets. A voiceover from London Mindful guides the viewer through the class, making it suitable for beginners as well as seasoned meditators.read more and watch video

Being a vampire is good for you.

Most people believe vampires dont exist or only in the story of dracula but in animal world creatures that suck blood do exist

• mosquitoes.
• candiru.
• fish.
• parasites.
• lampreys.
• vampire bats. even plant Rhinanthus minor but it is more commonly known as cockscomb or little yellow rattle.But scientists have found that blood transfusions from young donors can help stop people aging .so far only tested on mice.read more

Exercise your willy.

For 80 pounds you can get an exercise kit which comes with a weighted willy ring .The ring is to aid men to build up muscles in their todgers and improve stamina

Spike Milligan - The Best of Q - (Better than Monty Python)

80 years of British family holidays at Butlin's-plus my butlins.

“Skegness, 7.23am, platform 4”: the journey opportunity offered on the departure board at Grantham station may not make your pulse race. The train from the town voted most boring in Britain threads an erratic course through Lincolnshire and, on a good day, arrives by 9am at a place sometimes derided as Skegvegas. But 80 summers ago, there were plenty of people for whom the Lincolnshire resort was the closest destination to paradise. 

“Butlin’s Skegness Holiday Camp wish to announce that the camp is now fully booked to the middle of September,” read a newspaper advertisement from 1936. “During the last week over 1,400 bookings were refused as we had no further accommodation available.”

From opening day – 11 April 1936 – Butlin’s had done the the Thirties equivalent of going viral. read more---My butlins holidays were as a a young boy with my family we went to skegness,clacton-onsea,bognor regis all full board apart from once went self catering.Everything was free as all in price and i remember watching wrestling,puppet shows,games, falling into ponds at every site,my dad had diana dors sitting his lap during cabaret .beaver club,good meals i enjoyed it all.

New plastic 5 pound note is marmite.

Like marmite people tend to like or dislike  new 5 pound note,does not fold well,information can be erased by rubber,and some compare to magic fish,fortune telling toy often found in Christmas cracker.

Nurse depression.

No,not a nurse but how my wife Enid feels after visits due to attitude towards her.Enid has done all required by her t o get her health better but due to fact she struggles to use plastic step given to aid to sit in recliner easier due to fact as fallen on several occasions to use it and told to lose 15 stone may take away,visits may stop mentioned .But if need to access transport to doctors can only go whenv taxi not busy -firm based in brad worthy 3 miles away or volunteer car if can book as need adance booking or may come from as far as okehampton.I hate to  see her depressedas i am the one that boosts her up again .

Wife got Mitzi in Will.

This is the true story on how my wife Enid got our Jack Russell Mitzi.When a friend of Enid died she attended a will reading.She felt odd due to only non family member but was left Mitzi on understanding that we tried not to shout at her and show her lots of love.

loin fancies a buffalo bite.

In picture you can see a lion trying to chew on a 1,300 lb buffalo ,in Londolozi,South  Africa,the buffalo got away.

First complete Dodo skeleton is expected to fetch a huge amount when it's sold at auction

The first near-complete skeleton of a flightless dodo bird to come up for sale in nearly 100 years is set to fetch up to £500,000 next week, auctioneers predict.

The 95% finished composite skeleton has been painstakingly constructed by a man who started buying bones from private collections and auctions in the 1970s.

The collector has now decided to part with the item, which is set to fetch between £300,000 and £500,000 at Summers Place Auctions as part of its fourth Evolution sale in Billingshurst, West Sussex, on November 22.read more

Asperitas (cloud)

Asperitas (formerly known as Undulatus asperatus) is a cloud formation, proposed in 2009 as a separate cloud classification by the founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society. If successful it will be the first cloud formation added since cirrus intortus in 1951 to the International Cloud Atlas of the World Meteorological Organization.^[2] The name translates approximately as "roughness".^[3]

The clouds are most closely related to undulatus clouds.^[3] Although they appear dark and storm-like, they tend to dissipate without a storm forming.^[4] The ominous-looking clouds have been particularly common in the Plains states of the United States, often during the morning or midday hours following convective thunderstorm activity.^[5] As of June 2009 the Royal Meteorological Society is gathering evidence of the type of weather patterns in which asperitas clouds appear, so as to study how they form and decide whether they are distinct from other undulatus clouds.^{[3][4]-read more}

Blockage at remote Eco-Loo.

A Eco-Loo is not coping with the composting waste of 70,000 plus birdwatchers a year on the inhibited island of Honda.Scotland.

Giraffe has a peek.

In this photograph you can see a Giraffe looking into a posh dining room,Nairobi,Kenya.

Save Polar Bear Arthur / Salve al Oso Polar Arturo | Facebook

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Eat Chocolate whilst listening to music will alter taste.

Research by Oxford University scientists showed whilst listening to music chocolate changes taste. Volunteers were played music whilst tucking into chocolate ,soft notes made dark version taste creamier,sharp notes plucked on violin madeittaste bitter.

Kung Fu notes get 20,000 pounds.

The notes were on film star Steve Mcqueen who was a pupil of martial art legend Bruce Lee.

Worst Bruise .

In my time i have had a few bruises but their is one that stands out.This bruise happened whilst doing martial arts ,was holding a pad whilst fellow student was doing a thrust kick which was powerful and sent me to the wall .Over the next couple of days i begin to feel pain and discomfort in my penisand balls when checked were black and blue ,not good but i did recover.

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in memory of Freddie Mercury

Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara; 5 September 1946 – 24 November 1991) was a British singer, songwriter and record producer, known as the lead vocalist and co-principal songwriter of the rock band Queen. He also became known for his flamboyant stage persona and four-octave vocal range.^[3][4][5] Mercury wrote and composed numerous hits for Queen (including "Bohemian Rhapsody," "Killer Queen," "Somebody to Love," "Don't Stop Me Now," "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," and "We Are the Champions"); occasionally served as a producer and guest musician (piano or vocals) for other artists; and concurrently led a solo career while performing with Queen.

Mercury was born of Parsi descent in the Sultanate of Zanzibar and grew up there and in India until his mid-teens, before moving with his family to Middlesex, England — ultimately forming the band Queen in 1970 with Brian May and Roger Taylor. Mercury died in 1991 at age 45 due to complications from AIDS, having acknowledged the day before his death that he had contracted the disease.

In 1992 Mercury was posthumously awarded the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to British Music, with a tribute concert held at Wembley Stadium, London. As a member of Queen, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2003, the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004, and the band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2002. In 2002, he was placed at number 58 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. Consistently voted one of the greatest singers in the history of popular music, Mercury was voted best male singer of all time in a 2005 poll organised by Blender and MTV2;^[6] was elected in 2009 as the best rock singer of all time by Classic Rock readers;^[7] was ranked at 18 on the 2008 Rolling Stone list of the 100 greatest singers ever;^[5] — and was described by Greg Prato of AllMusic as "one of rock's greatest all-time entertainers," with "one of the greatest voices in all of music."^{[8]-wiki link-}

Unseen HG Wells ghost story published for first time

Here’s a gothic tale for a stormy night: a man called Meredith converts a room in his house into a cluttered and untidy study, and one day asks a visiting friend if he can see anything strange on the ceiling.

“Don’t you see it?” he said.
“See what?”
“The – thing. The woman.”
I shook my head and looked at him.
“All right then,” he said abruptly. “Don’t see it!”

This is the beginning of a newly discovered HG Wells ghost story, called The Haunted Ceiling, a macabre tale found in an archive that Wells scholars say they have never seen before. It will be published for the first time this week, in the Strand magazine.

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The story was discovered when Andrew Gulli, editor of the Strand, heard that the University of Illinois held a substantial archive of Wells’s works. He promptly hired an assistant to photocopy hundreds of manuscripts and sorted through them to see if he could find something new.

“Initially, from the titles of the manuscripts, I thought I happened upon lots of unpublished works, but those thousands of pages were narrowed down to this delightful story,” Gulli told the Guardian.

He called it “a vintage Wells story – you have a supernatural event, characters with two schools of thought on the event, [and] the literary type versus the scientist. This reminds me of his story The Red Room, but we have a more of a -read more