12 Wednesday Mar 2008
Posted in animals & pets, health & happiness, life stuff
The cat owners had a 30 per cent reduction in heart attack risk than participants who didn’t own cats, said the study’s lead author
Yeah I know, seem to be on a roll with the cat stuff lately … but isn’t this excellent news for all of us who have cats that allow us to live with them! So, does the fact that I live with two cats lower my heart attack risk by 60 per cent? Or do I also have to take Nog into consideration? 😉
05 Wednesday Mar 2008
Posted in food & drink, health & happiness, home
Do you eat five pieces of fruit a day?
I know it’s the recommended daily amount, but I’ve never understood how people find the time to eat so much fruit in one day. I eat maybe five pieces a month, though I do eat lots of veg and also have some sort of fruit juice every day (and no, not just grape juice
). It isn’t that I don’t like fruit, it’s just that I never get round to eating it.
But thanks to my friend “S” (aka Pipocas, popcorn mule and international woman of mystery) and my student & friend Paco (aka iskenderum ) that’s all about to change . . .
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26 Tuesday Feb 2008
Posted in health & happiness, life stuff, musings, sevilla
And it’s much earlier than last year. I was walking home from a class yesterday afternoon and when I turned a corner I was suddenly snapped out of my reverie; I closed my eyes, raised my face to the sky and inhaled deeply. Then I looked around and saw them – the first orange blossoms of the year.
It always takes me by surprise and always fills me with joy.
25 Monday Feb 2008
Posted in culture, films, health & happiness, life stuff, rants
. . . that I first saw this film.
A very charming ‘coming of age’ film about three teenaged girls (played by Julia Roberts, Annabeth Gish & Lili Taylor) in the small town of Mystic, Connecticut. And I had vague memories of really loving this film a lot.
Got to watch it again yesterday as it was being shown on tv on Sunday afternoon . . . and I loved it all over again.
But something really niggled. which I know is one of my pet niggles . . . and that is about how women portrayed in films twenty years ago actually got away with having real women’s bodies. I mean, okay, Mystic Pizza was a small indie low-budget film and not a big-time Hollywood film, otherwise this may not have been the case. But man, there was ole Julia (I think it was her first film role) showing a lot of big sexy butt and voluptuous curves, and Annabeth and Lily also looked like … well, like normal women do when wearing trousers. Like, no three inch gap between their thighs. And all scenes showing any of them in a sleeveless top or dress also showed quite attractive and normal looking upper arms, not pencil-thin sticks protruding out of bony shoulders… it was really refreshing to see this for a change.
Well, refreshing and also sad to think of how things are now. Ah well…
An excellent film – does anyone else remember it?
07 Thursday Feb 2008
Posted in fun stuff, health & happiness, quizzes
This interactive is loosely based on the PVT test which would be carried out under laboratory conditions for ten minutes, testing your response under different sleep conditions.
On average, 220 milliseconds would be a ‘good’ reaction time; people who are very tired take around 300 milliseconds
Didn’t realise I was so tired … off to bed now. 
