April 14th, 2008

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Health, Cooking, Uncategorized
Monday’s Leftovers: What’s left to eat?
Monday, April 14, 2008 | Permalink | 3 Comments

New here? If you’d like to be notified the next time I write something, simply subscribe to my RSS feed or sign up for email alerts. Thanks for visiting!It’s been a while since I was able to plan a menu, shop and write about food.
Finding time to write has only been part of […]
Cats
Is Your Desk a Mess?
Monday, April 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comment?

Damn it, I need some light relief and, what better than a couple of cats?
Apparently, posting cute cat pictures is, “In the spirit of being a tech blogger“. Oh well then, do you think I can get away with using that excuse too?
After it was mentioned in a comment on Matt Cutts’ blog (on a […]
Single Life, Expat, Health, Tenerife
Name that bug …
Monday, April 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comment?

While I won’t expect anyone to admit to being old enough to remember the quiz show, Name that tune (UK version), I do seriously need help naming this nasty little critter … Hopefully in one!
More importantly, can anyone help me figure out how to eradicate a plague of them, preferably without killing either myself or […]
Single Life, Expat, Health, Tenerife
For Human Consumption?
Monday, April 14, 2008 | Permalink | 2 Comments

The council put these signs up after erecting the wire fence around the water tanks in our lane. The reason for the fence, I was told, was to prevent people deliberately contaminating the water and, it’s a testament to the scared, sick world we live in that the authorities even imagine someone might do that.
But […]
Uncategorized
What happened to my rights?
Monday, April 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comment?

Found it most interesting that in the EU, internet access is now considered a human right and I like the way Mashable have a tap filling a glass of water to illustrate the story, inferring (yes, we know it is) that water is a right too.
And this, which says: The Universal Declaration of Human […]
Links
links for 2008-04-14
Monday, April 14, 2008 | Permalink | Comment?

Single in the Kitchen: Mexican Soup « The Starter Kitchen
The Starter Kitchen celebrates the joys of cooking for yourself, and shows you how to do it in ways that make sense.
(tags: food)

Why Blogs Don’t Rank Well In Google?
(tags: blogging)

The Aryan race originated in the Canary Islands?
It’s emerged, in a new book by a Spanish author, […]

Cosmos is a personal blog, or more accurately, a mishmash of unrelated ramblings, by former accountant, recovering journalist and serial cat collector, Pamela Heywood, an erstwhile expat who lived on the island of Tenerife for 16 years. Currently visiting the equally “foreign” Costa del Geriatrico in the UK, she is fluent in three languages; English, Spanish and Rubbish. This blog is written in the latter.