“The world is full enough of hurts and mischance without wars to multiply them.” - J.R.R. Tolkien The situation in Syria has b...

“Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.” - B. C. Forbes   A delicious recipe for an afternoon tea delight that we make every n...

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” - Abraham Lincoln   The older one gets, the ...

“Venus favours the bold.” - Ovid   The world’s been rather a-buzz with excitement over the past couple of weeks regarding the rare even...

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.” – Aristotle Today is World Environment Day , which is an ...

“The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing” - Voltaire   We watched an interesting an...

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.” - Albert Einstein   A relatively little-known artist for Art Su...

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” - Henry Ward Beecher Another Saturday that was filled with the...

“Tart words make no friends; a spoonful or honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar” - Benjamin Franklin For Food ...

“It’s easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.”   -   Mark Twain May 31 st is designated as Wor...

“I had the blues because I had no shoes until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.” - Denis Waitley I came home rather late th...

“Each one sees what he carries in his heart” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe It was with horror that I read in one of our papers ...

“Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall” - William Shakespeare   As the weather last Saturday was wintry and not conducive to much...

“What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said...

 “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t s...

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” - William Blake It was a real winter’s day today with almost non-stop rain, wi...

“I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain; What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.” - Arthur Freed   Today is Orthodox As...

“Don’t be dismayed at goodbyes, a farewell is necessary before you can meet again and meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certa...

“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses” - Ziggy (Single panel comic strip created by To...

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” - Shirley MacLaine Lately, there has been a renewed wave o...