Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners- Therese Oneill (Author)

Ladies, welcome to the 19^th 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 world passes 400ppm carbon dioxide threshold. Permanently

 

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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

25-10-2016 robbie r.i.p

Tuesday 25-10 -2016 Robbie  back leg give away in back garden we went to the local vet to be checked but you could tell this was not going to be good news.highly emotional for us all in the raines household . Robbie had to be put down due to his heart ,Robbie was a rescue dog who always said hello to all our visitors and ask for a hug,he liked to wander from bed to bed ,could have been a champion at hide and seek .gunted and stuck his tongue out .a great friend who will always  have a place in our hearts and now among the stars.

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 .