Sunday, December 10th, 2006
This is a great little book, of the pocket variety (119 pages in total). It’s full title is Why Women Can’t Read Maps and Won’t Stop Talking.
It shows how men and women are different. It’s full of commonsense advice and scientific facts that are both powerful and humorous. For example:
"Males use only three tones of voice when speaking, compared to a woman’s five tones. That’s why men often can’t follow womens’ conversations and women say, "Don’t use that tone of voice with me!" when arguing."
It really makes sense of some of the things that we don’t understand between the sexes. Allan and Barbara Pease are masters of communication and body language and have years of writing experience behind them.
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
There is so much focus on recycling lately that as a bit of an exercise I decided to look at what we do as a family. I really dislike being told what we must and musn’t do, I would rather do something because I have an interest in it.
I didn’t think that we recycled very much, but I rather surprised myself when I had a look around. We live in an area that has normal rubbish collected, garden rubbish and paper recycling bags, so anything else has to be done by us ie take items to the waste bins or local tip.
Week 1
We have milk delivered, so for starters it’s a really good method of recycling as, apart from the occasional broken bottle, all the bottles go back to the dairy for re-using.
We only had 2 glass bottles in the house but I duly washed them out, took off the labels and put them in a box in the garage ready for taking to the local bottle bank.
I have magazines passed on to me. So after having read them, I cut out any useful articles and they go straight into the recycle bags provided by the council, along with any of the freebie newspapers we get, junk mail and all other non-confidential paper.
I have a composter up the garden, so the majority of vegetable peelings go in there.
I gave away two bags of children’s clothes.
I have also sorted out all old shoes that are in a bag ready to go to the recycle bins.
So, all in all, not a bad start.
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it."
Henry Ford
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Sunday, December 10th, 2006
Well I haven’t had my slide yet, the weather has not been in my favour - never mind, it will happen. Plus a further week of illness amongst the family has meant not moving very far from the house.
However, we did the next best wintery thing and made a huge pile of leaves in the garden and jumped in them. Did we bag them up and leave the garden all nice and tidy. What do you think?Well we had to have an excuse to get back in the garden, didn’t we?
I took this picture, because I was stunned at the number of colours in amongst the leaves and as it was wet, they looked really shimmery and pretty in the half light of last weekend’s bright but rainy weather.
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