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Strange Noises From the Public Gallery

Posted on 3:37pm Tuesday 14th September 2010

August is traditionally the silly season in Politics. For Barnet this August was the very silly season. The antics of the Conservative Group dominated the headlines and monopolised the local blogs.

Dennis Signy »

Calling Specsavers

Posted on 11:15am Tuesday 14th September 2010

IF any executive of Specsavers, who run those splendid TV adverts, reads this and cares to contact me, I have an idea for a new campaign that could prove to our mutual advantage.

Author Unknown »

Healthy Apples at New Year

Posted on 9:54am Tuesday 7th September 2010

Traditionally we dip apple in honey at the Jewish New Year to symbolically wish for a forthcoming healthy New Year. However apples have a higher nutritional content than perhaps our Rabbis originally believed.

Mohamed-Zain Dada »

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Results Day!

Posted on 11:16pm Wednesday 25th August 2010

The key is not to get overly happy or overly sad and become sort of monotone human being with no reaction. So rather then being a rainbow of happy or sad emotions become the rainbow’s arch enemy: grey. If it’s 4 A’s or 4 U’s produce that ‘not quite a smile, not quite a frown’ look and you’ll be fine.

Mohamed-Zain Dada »

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Ramadan - The holy month for Muslims

Posted on 1:23am Tuesday 17th August 2010

The general assumption is that ‘fasting’ is abstaining from food or drink from before dusk to sunset but it includes a host of other things too. In fact the famous theologian Imam Al-Ghazali said: ‘The real fasting is not the fasting of the tongue and the stomach, but the fasting of the heart.’

Denise Phillips »

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Come Dine at Mine

Posted on 2:31pm Monday 9th August 2010

Make fundraising more fun with a dinner party with a difference. Encourage guests to make donations to a charity rather than gifts to the hostess.

Jack Cohen »

Not A Good Use of Council Resources

Posted on 4:21pm Wednesday 28th July 2010

I have not needed to attend any meeting in the past couple of weeks. This does not mean I have not been out and about. This is the time of year for garden fetes and street parties.

Dennis Signy »

A moment of fear on Highwood Hill

Posted on 4:45pm Friday 23rd July 2010

THERE were hair-raising moments galore as I learned to drive in a 15 cwt truck on the Khyber Pass years go, with buses and lorries careering round corners towards me at speed with dozens of excitable Indians hanging out of the windows.

Mohamed-Zain Dada »

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Free, Fun activities for the SUMMER

Posted on 10:01pm Wednesday 21st July 2010

Sneezing is the cool, urban trend of 2010 and here is why. When you’re bored at the sheer pointlessness of breathing and a sneeze comes along to brighten up your life. Almost illuminating your nostrils with the blessing of snot and 'nose wind’ as I like to call it. A sort of flatulence of the nose you could say. Sneezing is also part of the British Summer thanks to hay fever.

Author Unknown »

The Joy of Water Melon

Posted on 10:50am Friday 16th July 2010

Some interesting facts about watermelon ~ that could even effect your sex life ~ together with a delicious recipe with Lancashire cheese and red cabbage.

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