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Posted at 9:54am Tuesday 7th September 2010
Healthy Apples at New Year
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.
Posted at 10:50am Friday 16th July 2010
The Joy of Water Melon
Some interesting facts about watermelon ~ that could even effect your sex life ~ together with a delicious recipe with Lancashire cheese and red cabbage.
Posted at 3:26pm Wednesday 23rd December 2009
A seasonal offering
I awoke at the crack of dawn on Christmas Day 65 years ago to the raucous background noise of the NCO at Meanee Barracks in Colchester shouting "Wakey, wakey".
Posted at 12:29pm Thursday 17th December 2009
Is Signy a saint or sinner?
Bouncy comedian Jimmy Tarbuck tried to catch me on the hop when we got together at the 'Saints and Sinners' Club Christmas lunch at the InterContinental Hotel. We had been discussing the decline of Liverpool Football Club when we were joined by two other guests. "Do you know Dennis?" one of them asked Jimmy.
Posted at 1:22pm Tuesday 16th December 2008
West Finchley Rules OK
It felt like half the population of West Finchley turned up to last night’s Finchley and Golders Green Planning Sub Committee.
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