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Is wood burning environmentally responsible?

This photo shows my car loaded with about one stere (1m3) of firewood, which I went to get yesterday from a local farmer. I don’t heat my house or cook with wood, we just like to light a fire sometimes on cold evenings, so this much wood will probably last us all winter. After, we [...]

on this day in history – 9th October

Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara was shot and killed in a battle with Bolivian soldiers on this day, October 9th, 1967. Guevara was born in Argentina in 1928 and became an expert in guerilla warfare after studying to become a doctor. He helped Fidel Castro come to power in Cuba, and held several important jobs in [...]

Boomer – the world’s tallest dog?

Boomer measures in at three feet tall(90cm) at the shoulders and seven feet long from nose to wagging tail, and that might just make him the world’s tallest living dog. The three-year-old Landseer Newfoundland’s owner says he’s so big he keeps all four paws on the floor when he drinks from the family’s kitchen faucet. [...]

my new lawn mower

Try to understand me complaining about the instruction manual for new lawn mower. Lawn : pelouse Grass : herbe ou gazon Lawn mower : tondeuse to mow : tondre (uniquement pour des pelouses, pas les cheveux!) DIY : (do it yourself) Bricolage A DIY store : magasin de bricolage, on peut dire aussi ‘hardware store’ [...]

Photograph: Praying mantis

This is a praying mantis (mante réligeuse). Its name comes from the fact that it looks like it is praying while waiting to catch other insects to eat. This little creature is far from religious or pious, though, it devours other insects, and the females are know to kill and eat the males after mating! [...]

Water on the Moon?

My question is, why is NASA so interested in finding water on the moon? What good is it to the nearly seven billion people here on Earth that are running out of water? Talk about your Moon shot. NASA is in the final stages of preparation for firing projectiles into the moon’s surface. The goal [...]

Sorry I’ve been away for so long!

Hi everybody! I had a very busy summer, and wasn’t able to spend time providing you with material on the site. Let me explain a little what’s been going on. Back in the spring my wife and I decided to leave Aix-en-Provence for the south-west of France, a region which we both like very much [...]