Category Archives: Living
Cocktail of the week: Yellow paint recipe
Wrap your tastebuds round this: sweet, floral flavour, with a tingle thrown inThis is more or less an update on the classic daiquiri. The elderflower’s sweet, floral flavour is balanced by the mustard’s aroma and warmth, which creates a tingle on the tongue. Serves one.20ml spiced rum (such as Sailor Jerry)20ml Havana Club three-year-old rum15ml lemon juice15ml elderflower cordial½ tsp readymade mustard – Colman’s, of course (or to taste) Continue reading… Read More
Source:: The Guardian
Last Minute Gift Guide For Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching and you may find yourself without a gift yet. If that’s the case, don’t fret, because there’s still time to come up with a great gift that she’ll love and that you can have in your hands before the day arrives. Here’s your last minute gift guide for her for […]
Source:: Unfinished Man
Why don’t we fall out of bed more often?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific conceptsWhy don’t we fall out of bed more often?Brendan Kelly, Dublin, Ireland Continue reading… Read More
Source:: The Guardian
Uber: the app that changed how the world hails a taxi
How James Bond, an abusive Parisian cabbie and one man’s frustration with going out in San Francisco led to a transport revolution• Brad Stone Q&A: ‘We should watch Uber and Airbnb closely’The whole thing might not have happened without Bond – James Bond. It was mid-2008, the Canadian entrepreneur Garrett Camp had just sold his first company, the website discovery engine StumbleUpon, to eBay for $75m. Now he was living large, enjoying San Francisco’s nightlife, and when relaxing at his apartment in the city’s South Park neighbourhood, he occasionally popped in the DVD of Daniel Craig’s first Bond movie, Casino Read More
Source:: The Guardian
History, harmony, and the only Muslim island in Australia | Ben Stubbs
There is something positive about the isolated existence of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, 2,000km from the West Australian coast and shielded from anti-Islam rhetoric We pull up to the front of the mosque in Nek Su’s golf cart. Through the open window I see him join thirty men in bright robes and embroidered Taqiyah head coverings as they kneel to face the Kaaba cube in Mecca. The soft call to prayer fills the street. Everything else is silent. Two girls in hijabs walk past as a young, robed man pulls up to the mosque and shuffles inside, late.“Hayya ala Salahhhhh,” Read More
Source:: The Guardian
