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EH UP VERA, THE WIFE´S BACK

They are all over Lanzarote: When we first came to live here, five years ago now, they somehow seemed to be telling us not to come too close, as they stood in spiky clusters by the roadside. These long, four-metre stalks tilt at a 45 degree angle on hillsides; in their sparse little clusters they are the closest the island gets to a forest.
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KNOPFLER KRONIKLES PART 5: MASON AND DIXON DRAW THE LINE

When Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon arrived in Philadelphia in November 1763, no one would have recognized them apart from the other passengers on the ship. However, after their five-year stay in the American colonies, their names are forever remembered with the border that separates Pennsylvania from Maryland and the other surrounding states. Most importantly for scientists and geographers around the country and world, when Mason and Dixon were surveying the line, they measured the first degree of latitude in North American and made the first scientific gravity measurements recorded across the Atlantic Ocean.

MARTA AND THE NATURAL TREASURE

Both ! I grew up in Poland playing in the fields and watched my mother picking camomile or mint and make us a tea or a drink or a sauce. She would sometimes pick nettles and tell us to boil them to give us a beautiful hair. I grew up in a Poland in which we didn´t go running to the shops for everything. If we were hungry my brother and I would dig a carrot out of the earth, clean it up, and eat it raw ! That was our B12, the real thing, not a supplement. A carrot is your vitamin and mineral.
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ISLAND IN THE SUN: remembering Harry Belafonte

“When you grow up, son,″ Belafonte remembered his mother telling him, “never go to bed at night knowing that there was something you could have done during the day to strike a blow against injustice and you didn’t do it.″

ARTS APPLY THE CROWNING GLORY

Following that the service greeting took place with Faith Leaders and Representatives and the Governors-Generals. At the end of the procession near the Great West Door, the King received a greeting by leaders and representatives from different faith communities.hose taking part were Most Venerable Bogoda Seelawimala (Buddhist), Lord Singh of Wimbledon, (Sikh), Radha Mohan das (a representative from a Hindu temple in Hertfordshire), Aliya Azam (Islam) and the Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis (Judaism). As the King stood before the faith leaders and representatives, they said in unison: “Your Majesty, as neighbours in faith, we acknowledge the value of public service.“We unite with people of all faiths and beliefs in thanksgiving, and in service with you for the common good.”
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DIGGING A HOLE FOR ONE´S SELF

Kilometric queues in Timanfaya, the clogged Cave and cars parked on the road to Los Jameos, the tourist image of Lanzarote at Easter.

MAJOR INVESTIGATIONS into Portsmouth, Pompey and lies about Lanzarote

In their strange, dotted costumes Los Diabletes are a rare spectacle. So don´t blink or you´ll miss them. These ´creatures´ create their mischief and are gone in a flash. So don´t blink or you´ll miss them

CESAR BROUGHT TO BOOK

I would wager that this new book will have echoes of Cesar´s wisdom that will have us nodding our heads sagely, and exclaiming, ´Yes, that´s the way to do it´.

the road to nowhere,… or TO EVRYWHERE?

If your read the recent text of a speech made by The President of Lanzarote about the way ahead for the tourism of the island, I think you will find she made some serious reflections on how her country might survive the prospective surge in tourist numbers that are already suffocating some of the island. However, The Daily Mail have been accused of editorialising her words, surely knowing their own interpretation would mean different things to different people, some of whom would read The Daily Mail story and feel as though Dolores Corujo had delivered a slap to the face of our tourist industry whilst others might just read the piece as a show of support to all sectors of our economy, including tourism.

CARNIVAL, COLDPLAY NO-PLAY & COMIC HEROES Spanish Version

'¡Oh, Norman,.. Tienes razón de nuevo. Ya he decidido en qué quiero gastar mi dinero", dijo emocionada. Ï nos llevará a mí y a Mama a la Convención de la Comic Con en Londres casi al mismo tiempo que Barcelona y Coldplay.