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Denise Phillips »
Wild About Wild Garlic
Posted on 3:43pm Friday 6th May 2011
Getting familiar with wild garlic which is now in season and probably growing in your local woodlands or back garden.
Mohamed-Zain Dada »
End your Examination anxiety
Posted on 2:04pm Saturday 9th April 2011
As the Easter Holidays begin and the sun shines, students fret over the upcoming exams. I must confess, my mind is an egg of stress making my to-do list somewhat scrambled. Thoughts float around in head acting like dumbbells of procrastination, weighing me down like an unintelligent Smart car full of heavy Tesco bags. My proverbial car of a brain is taking a U-turn like Clegg to concentrate everything on my A levels.
Denise Phillips »
New Ways With Daikon
Posted on 9:34am Tuesday 22nd March 2011
Show some solidarity with a popular Japanese vegetable, Daikon. It is very versatile and similar to the texture of radish. Enjoy raw, cooked or pickled!
Dennis Signy »
Ramblings of a nine-stone ghost
Posted on 11:33am Thursday 10th March 2011
As I return to the fold after 78 days in hospital and the loss of three stone in weight, I can only thank the myriad well wishers who contacted my family and to repeat the quote of Mark Twain, the American author and humourist, who once wrote: "The report of my death has been greatly exaggerated".
Mohamed-Zain Dada »
The Closure of the Canada Villa Youth Centre
Posted on 5:28pm Tuesday 8th March 2011
Information over the closure of the youth centre over the past few months is limited to a timid shrug, so as not to appear confused - the shoulders move upwards the right height so as not to appear conclusively confused. Think of a cross between a father’s dancing shoulder shrug and the diameter of an American footballers shoulder pad.
Denise Phillips »
The Year Of The Rabbit
Posted on 1:18pm Monday 7th February 2011
An outline of the Chinese New Year, how they celebrate and the Yin and Yan balance in their ingredients.
Mohamed-Zain Dada »
An unofficial guide to Twitter
Posted on 2:16am Sunday 30th January 2011
You’ll get the spammers who send tweets consisting of everything from weight watchers to advice on how to walk a dog. These tweeters will urge you to follow them (follow @Zainthepoet) or spam you their links (check out www.wordsapart7.blogspot.com for poetry) and they will stop at nothing to do so.
Mohamed-Zain Dada »
'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised.'
Posted on 1:13am Friday 28th January 2011
Some people are selective in terms of the truth or history. Like my selective memory which remembers the Asian and or Muslim members of the BBC London news team: *breathe* Ayeesha Baksh, Asad Ahmed and Riz Latif. More importantly, governments and liberal democracies of the western world struggle to remember what they set up: post-world war kingdoms in the middle-east and across the world.
Denise Phillips »
Latest in Bahamian cooking!
Posted on 3:32pm Tuesday 18th January 2011
The joys of Bahamian cooking is brought to London with this tasty recipe of Rum cake!
Mohamed-Zain Dada »
Making Welfare un-fair
Posted on 10:45pm Tuesday 11th January 2011
2011 looks bleak for young people. Today it was announced that banker’s bonuses will not be restricted whilst student’s fee will be rising, EMA will be scrapped and youth centre’s will close. Banks should be treated like dogs and be put on economic leashes but instead there given free reign to proverbially pee on the free market.
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