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Hydration and Healthy in the Workplace (Water in the Workplace II)
Two summers ago, I blogged about keeping yourself tuned and fit while at work. Now, apparently it’ll be spring in a few weeks but for the moment it looks like we’re really still in the grip of winter. Despite this rather chilly weather, now is a good a time as any to...
Driving and Hydration – does drinking water make a difference?
A while ago I wrote about a slight accident I had while driving a friend’s car, entitled A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Water Cooler. The blog was all about irony, karma, call it what you will. I’ve also mentioned day-time fatigue that’s brought on by not...
AquAid and Carrington Dean: A Partnership of Care
If you have ever struggled with debt, you may have heard of our company, Carrington Dean. What we do is simple: we help those who are hopelessly in debt to get out of debt through management plans like IVAs, debt arrangement schemes, and bankruptcy. But it’s one thing...
Immersed in Water – The Submarine
Before you start up with an eager rendition of ‘We All Live in a Yellow Submarine’, just .... don’t. Please. I’m not anti one of the greatest bands of all modern time, but that song, just ... no. Anyhow, I digress. Being a touch claustrophobic, the mention of...
2015 – A Year in Review for AquAid
As always, thanks to the commitment to top service and maintenance from everyone at AquAid and because of the provision of top quality products, 2015 was a very productive and successful year. One of the most important aspects of the company experiencing a bumper year...
AquAid does January – Up Helly Aa!
Did anyone attend any Hogmanay events this year? I missed it but I heard they were marvellous! A few ancient Hogmanay traditions still to be found are: Redding the House - Like the annual spring cleaning in some communities, or the ritual cleaning of the kitchen for...
Musings at the Water Cooler – New Year’s Resolutions to consider for the big Two Oh One Six
Me personally, I don’t do New Year’s Resolutions. I stopped around 1990 something. Not sure why, just did. Just in case you do though, I thought it only polite to share an amusing and sometimes witty selection of resolutions and opinions about resolutions just in case...
AquAid and the Maasai Sports Bottle
Some 11 million children are at risk from hunger, disease and water shortages in east and southern Africa because of the strengthening El Nino weather phenomenon, this according to UNICEF. The worst affected countries are in east and southern Africa including Tanzania...
AquAid Quirks and Christmas Fun
If there’s one thing I absolutely love, it’s Christmas time. It starts with the advent calendars (no, they’re not just for the children), ramps up with the decorating of the tree and then continues at full steam ahead for the entire month of December. Wrapped up in my...
Water Christmas Trees
Did you see the double edged meaning there? Who’s a clever clogs then? In case you didn’t, it’s like this: If you’re having a real fir tree this Christmas, you need to water it. Then, there are Christmas trees that are made out of water. I know that beggars’ belief...
Witticisms at the Water Cooler II
A ways back, I should cocoa (I did) – I presented the first in a series of two blogs about *points to headline*. Recently, I went back to that blog and realised that it was a Part I, which meant, at the very least, a second instalment was needed. So, without further...
AquAid’s Bottled Water Cooler goes Viral in peppy Vevo Music Video!
Just when you thought AquAid were all about the staid and serious supply of a quality range of water coolers and water related products, we show that we too, can be frothy and fun. How, you may ask? Well, our Free Standing Bottled Water Cooler is a music video...
Traditional Autumn Festivities you may need Water for
Last year I blogged about Bonfire Night or Guy Fawkes Night as it’s also called. Although the tradition of Guy Fawkes stems from an historical political event, it’s lighting up the darkness, so to speak, and so fits right in with a number of autumn time traditions,...
Water and Your Health – The Grapefruit
Typing the query ‘which fruit contains the most water’ into the omnipresent Googlio, and BAM! this is what came up: ‘Grapefruit.’ Then more about watermelon and strawberries - thing is, watermelon and strawberries seem to contain more water than grapefruit – ninety...
Trending at The Water Cooler – What’s Wrong with Plates
Funny story. I social media-ed a friend the other day to ask him his opinion on a newish restaurant in our area – the type of jeuj (my word) restaurant that one usually only finds in town or city centres. He replied that the food was really good, but his one question...
The Culture Vulture Circles Britain
Recently I blogged about various dishes with really bizarre names that originate from different cultures. I also mentioned that we Britons certainly aren’t alone when it comes to naming our scoff weirdly. I said that at a later date I’d be expounding further on more...
The AquAid Compact Water Boiler vs. a Kettle
Switching from a kettle to a hot water boiler not only reduces the amount of time spent waiting for a cup of hot water but the cost involved in production time and energy bills. Obviously, each work environment is different, so this information will assist you in...
Trends at the Water Cooler – We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!
I was trolling the net, looking at what’s trending this week in the U.K. when it occurred to me – whatever happened to all of those ‘Pet Rocks’. No, I don’t mean your pet rocking out on some YouTube clip, I’m referring to the 1970 something craze of having your own...
The Culture Vulture at the Water Cooler
That would be ... me! Yes, yes, on occasion (usually during the change of season) I don my culture vulture headgear (a jester’s cap no less) and get out there in the World Wide Web and eddicate myself. I was all geared up initially to find out which countries were...
Say Hello to our ‘Baby’ Elephant
Here at AquAid, we’ve always believed that an integral part of good business practice is helping those less fortunate – especially those far flung communities in Third World countries. This philosophy was put into effect by ensuring that a portion of proceeds from all...
Need a bit of Laugh? Here is are some jokes from AquAid
Of course, it is! And to prove as much, we’re including a photo of one of our environmentally friendly delivery vehicles. Works really well until such time as they encounter a low bridge. Bada-dish! You didn’t like that? Then may I draw your attention to a selection...
Keeping hydrated during the Rugby World Cup 2015
Great excitement abounds as we draw closer to the 2015 Rugby World Cup being held in the U.K. this year, starting on 18 September and the final being played at Twickenham on 31 October. One would hope so, as rugby was invented in England in 1823. Legend has it that...
‘Red Sky at Night …’ and other weather adages
I’ve always loved adages and how they evolve, but I love them especially when they relate to predictions about the weather and the natural world. For example, one of my favourites, which I’ve never quite understood is: ‘Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in...
To Beer or not to Beer? The Sugar Shock.
Everyone knows that if a person is in shock one of the most effective ways of combating it is to give the person some sugar water to drink. This raises the blood sugar levels almost immediately. But perhaps we haven’t realised just how bad sugar can be for us and also...
Water and Food – When a Pizza isn’t a Pizza
I recently read a delightful article about a woman who ordered a pizza in Italy and was told that such a pizza doesn’t exist. The gist of the *article is about how the journalist, who resides in Italy, went to her local takeaway pizzeria and ordered a marinara to...
Water Cooler Wonder – Pluto that Was and Wasn’t
Some time ago I wrote a blog about poor Pluto – the planet that was a planet, and then it wasn’t annnnnd ... now it looks like it may, once again, be reinstated as a planet. Confused as I am? It’s no wonder. Imagine how the planet / non-planet feels? As a popular meme...
Water Cooler Trivia or How I Trivia’d My Way to Fame
I hope you aren’t surprised about the ‘I’ in the title; by now you should be well aware that a lot of this blogging stuff is about me. And why not – it is me that’s writing them after all. I actually didn’t really trivia my way to fame – no Slumdog Millionaire me –...
What Makes you Thirsty?
Let’s fact check here for a moment. This is a blog page. The running (aha) theme is generally about all things watery. There’s heaps of information about the supply of water and how we deliver said water to you, dear customer, through the provision of our spankingly...
Water Cooler Trivia – Facts that aren’t actually Factual
Last week, we sent a mailer to all you wonderful people with 4 different articles, one of which was a quick quiz. Gauging the response to these articles, it seems the quiz came up trumps. I found this very interesting. Humanoids like to engage, one and two, like to be...
The Origin Of The 99’er – The Flake in the Ice-Cream Cone
While doing research for a ‘Hydration in Summer tips’ (aside from drinking good old water) blog, and as my mind skittered crazily from one topic to another in a burst of what I call, ‘The Frenetic Frenzy of Fern’, I chanced upon a delightful article written about the...
How a Water Cooler can save your Life
Aha! Bet that got your attention. Now I have it, can I direct you towards this selection of wrist watches I’m selling? Only joking – however, in all seriousness, when the temperatures start to soar in the summer months, dehydration can occur quicker than you may...
Trends at the Water Cooler – Are you a Smoaster?
Caught me by surprise too – smoaster – what the hey does that mean, I asked myself? Being all things food and drink, I though perhaps it was something to do with s’mores or boasting at the water cooler, but it isn’t. Apparently, it’s unnecessary boasting on social...
The Blogista at The Water Cooler
I cain’t get noooooo .... respect. Weather’s improving and I’ve been cartwheeling down the corridors with excitement all the way up to the water cooler station, believing that somewhere in the period that I’ve been writing blogs, some of my advice about heat,...
The Great Unicorn Debate
I saw a post this morning on social media. It read “Google Scotland’s National Animal”, which I, of course, immediately typed in. Tadaa - it presented me with the Unicorn being Scotland’s National Animal. If that doesn’t cement my love of all things Scottish, nothing...
Witticisms at the Water Cooler I
Having a great love of all things English – the language itself, the gram-mar, pronunciation, etc. – I’m always interested in the foibles and eccentricities that I hear about or read. In particular, I often wonder where certain expressions originate from and how they...
HSF Training builds an Elephant Pump in Liberia
There’s definitely more involved than just the usual supplier / customer relationship when it comes to AquAid and its customers. Not only do AquAid provide a high standard of service to their customers through the supply of a range of top quality water coolers,...
Emir Dobson – AquAid Middlesborough
The Swimming Scuba Diver One of the aspects of working in the marketing and social media sphere that I really enjoy is getting to ‘know’ some of the many people that work at AquAid. To date, I’ve ‘met’ a serious traveller - Josh; a carer of animals and Tough Man...
Water & Your Health – Can You Unplug?
I know this blog is horribly ironic, speaking as we are about the benefits of not being connected with our electronics for a whole day and here I’m blogging about its importance and benefits. Mea culpa. However, in my defence – dee- fence! – I am posting this ahead of...
The Sore Head at the Watercooler
A while ago, I blogged about the dreaded headaches that affect most humanoids. There are so many types of headaches, one hardly knows where to begin, but I’m going to give it the good old college try in the hopes that this will provide useful information so you can...
Summer Holidays Homework – a Fresh Approach
The Summer Holidays will soon be upon us and for many parents this can be more a cause for concern than a reason to celebrate – namely, what are the kidlets going to doooo all summer? Stroll-surfing along the internet, I happened upon this rather lovely article: *‘An...
Queueing at the Water Cooler
I’m sure, like me, (and countless other humanoids) queues and queueing are the bane of your life. In my case ‘bane’ is too soft a word. I have a pathological dislike of queuing. I’d like to say that the introduction of the World Wide Web and the ability to connect to...
Are Water Coolers Funny?
Last week I blogged about memes (see image above); the word itself always makes me a little uncomfortable – memes … Manitou’s …mammaries – but then that’s how my brain processes word association – it may not be how yours does. (Aren’t you lucky?!) With memes in mind,...
A Tomato = Fifty Litres of Water
I’m sure you all have a pretty good inkling about some elements of what your carbon footprint is and have, in your own way, implemented certain strategies on how to lessen that footprint. But are you at all aware of what the water footprint is for each bit of food you...
Water & Nature – The Versatile Dandelion
Dandelions, long immortalised in Dance, the Media Arts and Music are, in fact, weeds. If you don’t believe dandelions have been used in popular music over the last few decades, boy oh boy, are you in for a surprise! Just to get the dandelion swaying, here’s a fine...
Ice Cold Water or; what’s in a Meme?
Do you get it? ‘ey, ‘ey, ‘ey? I decided it’s again time for a little humour at the water cooler. Googling as I’m wont to do, I happened upon the above humorous meme. What’s a meme you ask? Well, before you think I’m becoming all teachery on you, I didn’t know what...
Water & Nature – Why do Zebras have Stripes?
I was wandering through the dreaded social media the other day and I saw an absolutely beautiful black and white (ha) photo of zebras drinking at a water hole that an acquaintance had taken whilst on tour in Namibia. Those who are into photography will know that...
Water & Nature – How Cacti Can Save Your Life
Before you start hissing like an old boiler at the use of the word ‘cacti’ (pl), I’ll remind you that it is correct. It is a cactus and many cacti. Anyhow, the point of this blog from your (occasionally) friendly blogista, Fern, is that although I’ve never been a fan...
‘I am Cynthia M. Brown, a former child soldier.’
These are the opening lines that I read after receiving an e-mail from Ian Thorpe of The Africa Trust. I had asked for an update on the progress of the work that the charity carries out throughout countries in Africa. I thought it was high time that we had a more...
Cocktails and Mocktails – Hydration, Island Style
I’m aware that you may sometimes feel that you’re being waterlogged with information about how important it is to stay hydrated by drinking sufficient water, so this month, the wonderful, glorious month of May, pre-cursor to high summer, I’m easing back on the water...
A Braai is a Braai unless it’s a Barbecue (but even then, it’s still a braai).
Living in South Africa as *I do, but having lived in the U.K. for a number of years, I’m often struck by the differences when it comes to barbecuing in the U.K. versus braaing in South Africa. One needs to understand that to a large proportion of South Africans,...
Wishing for a Water Well
‘A wishing well is a term from European folklore to describe wells where it was thought that any spoken wish would be granted. The idea that a wish would be granted came from the idea that water housed deities or had been placed there as a gift from the gods, since...
Like Water for Chocolate
Quite some time ago, I wrote a blog about chocolate – and all its health benefits. Yep, you read correctly – all chocolate’s health benefits. Go and have a squiz and be amazed. So, this Easter, I was going to write more (as promised) about the origins of chocolate and...
Myth Busting 101
I’ve been hard at work here at work, so my water cooler station lurking has been at a bare minimum for the last few weeks. Whereas I doubt that my absence has had a detrimental effect on any of my colleagues (I had visions of said colleagues’ grey matter rapidly...
Water & Your Health – It’s all about Balance in the Belly – Part II
Last week, we spoke about us having 2 brains – the one in our head and the one in our stomach. This week we continue talking about stomach and digestive system health and how having a happy tummy is vital to your general health and well-being: It’s all about balance...
Water Cooler Wonder – A River Runs through it
I’ve always wondered why certain cities are more appealing than others and it struck me that it’s generally because those cities are near water. I’m not referring to seaside cities, but cities that have a river running through them. Think of London and the Thames...
Water & Your Health – It’s all about the Brains and the Belly – Part I
There’s long been debate about how best to maintain and prolong your body’s health. Now it turns out, you don’t have just one brain to take care of so it takes care of you, but two. Who knew?! This is the case, apparently: Brain 1 is the central nervous system (brain...
Hot Cross Bunnies and other Easter delights
As you may have gathered by now, I quite like the origins of ‘stuff’. Couple this with a love of celebrations and traditions and you end up with enough reading material to last you aeons. For example, where did hot cross buns originate and why? As with a lot of...
Paint your Eggs and Other Easter Delights
Easter has always been my favourite time of year – followed closely by Christmas. Perhaps it’s the idea of celebrating; the colours, the decorations, festivities, the delicious food – whatever the reason, I’m in like Flynn when it comes around. It could also stem from...
Ancient Methods Making a Splash Today!
It would seem that ancient methods are best when it comes to saving water in a ‘Modern Age’. *Recently, The Stockholm Water Prize was awarded to Rajendra Singh, who is known as the ‘Water Man of India’. Rajendra’s methods have brought water to over a thousand villages...
Weird at the Water Cooler – A Day for EVERYTHING
I’ve noticed a rather disturbing trend has raised its invasively shaped head on the worldwide web in the last few years. The every single day of the year allocated to some cause or other trend. Frankly, I find it exhausting. There seems to be a post 20th Century gene...
Bubbles at the Water Cooler – The Good, The Bad and The Sad News
"Terry Pratchett 2005". Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Ever have one of those weeks where you’re just ‘blah’. A friend of mine explained it as ‘when your spirit is disconnected from your body and your physical being bumps into walls and stuff’. This...
World Water Day – 22 March 2015 – Should you care?
In a previous blog, I spoke about the rather disturbing trend where almost every single day of the year has been tagged as a Day of Something or Other. One seems hard pressed to wheedle out a day that has actual significance or some real meaning or; that is of...
Beware the Ides of March
March actually isn’t an unlucky or ‘bad’ month at all. It’s just that peskily prolific Shakespeare whose line it is that’s responsible for the month’s bad reputation. We've all heard the saying, 'Beware the Ides of March.' The actual quote is from Shakespeare's...
‘You Can Lead a Horse to Water …’ and other such expressions
‘You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.’ Have you ever wondered who comes up with such expressions or idioms? I often do. Keeping matters pet friendly (aha aha) and water related (because that’s what we’re about – us here at AquAid, dont’chya...
Ross Dowsett – Super Manager, Super Dad and Super Walker
Regional Manager - AquAid Surrey To date, meeting some of the AquAid team has taken us all over the U.K., as far as San Francisco in the USA, and even Tanzania, Africa with Ian Thorpe of The Africa Trust for Christmas with the Maasai. Today we learn a bit more about...
Water Cooler Wonder – Is There a Difference Between Indigo and Violet?
Here’s some bamboozely info. to bandy about at your next network at the office, home or school (hopefully at school, you’re not networking as yet, but just chatting to your mates) water cooler – just what are indigo and violet and is there any difference between the...
Shimi, Mavournin and Watery Adventures
Once upon a time there was a family – the dad of who had a dream. The dad in the family had dreamt from when he was a nipper that one day he would have an ocean going yacht. So that is what the Dad did. He worked hard and scrimped and saved, then he retired and he...
Watery Tales We Were Told
‘You must wait for an hour after eating to go for a swim. If you do not, you could get a stomach cramp and drown.’ Does anyone else remember that old chestnut? Absolute torture for us otters who literally lived in the water from sunup to sundown in the summer months....
Water & Wasabi – Ways to Heat up this Winter
I cannot, for the life of me, when I think of the word Wasabi, say it as it’s written. I always martial-art-movie the pronunciation. And I do mean always. Say it with me now,’Wa-saaaaaabi!’ I have wondered whether wasabi was a chilli, pepper or mustard, but apparently...
Water Cooler Wonder – Why are Snowflakes all Different?
Some days, it’s all about wishing for warmer weather, sun peeking out, birds tweeting and other days, you just go with the chill. Today is one of those days. I’ve always had a fascination with formation of snowflakes – to the point where I wished I could carry a...
Are you barnacles if you like to go camping?
So it started like this ... (I’m tempted to say ‘and that’s how the fight started’) ... but that wouldn’t be correct. Or true. It wasn’t a fight. What it was was the seemingly endless discussion about whether to go camping or to not go camping. Whether camping was...
AquAid Birmingham, Scott Barnbrook and Man’s Best Friend
Charity can often be a word bandied about but with no real meaning behind it. If there’s one thing I’ve discovered about AquAid it’s that you’ll find tons of individuals throughout the AquAid network that aren’t just committed working professionals, but they’re really...
Fidelity Facts of the Feathered (and otherwise) for February
In case you were thinking that fidelity only applies to us humanoids, think again. All of these water loving/living creatures pretty much mate for life: ALBATROSS - Other bird species can boast about their monogamous relationships, but albatross display a unique...
Water Cooler Wonder – February and St. Valentine
Speculation is that the word February comes from the Roman festival of purification called February where people were ritually washed. There is a Roman god called Februus, but he is named after the festival, not the other way around. The interesting linguistic story,...
Watery Tales of Romance
In this month of love (being February) I can hear the howls of protest from many an individual as they scarper to warmer climes, (or just anywhere else) to avoid participating in Valentine’s Day. I have my own personal rules regarding the day in question – I call it...
Weird at the Water Cooler – The ‘O’ Words
I was idly sitting on Ollie’s desk (a colleague), pretending that his having a new desk top water cooler (the Aquaid-400-Desktop-Water-Cooler no less – nothing but the best for ol’ Ollie it would seem) didn’t make me green with envy – I mean, what’s he got that I...
Thank You from AquAid
Here at the end of January 2015 AquAid has reached a fantastic milestone. With the help of our customers, we have reached total charitable donations in excess of £10 million since the company was founded in 1998, enough to supply more than 2 million people with clean...
Water, Bubbles and Blisters
Strange title I know. You’re forgetting my freedom of association powers – ooowee ooowee – again, more fool you. I initially looked up bubbles, but came across information about water blisters on feet and hands, which are called dyshidrotic eczema, which coloured me...
How to keep the H2O in Hydration this Winter
Often we mistakenly assume that keeping hydrated during winter is less important than in summer. This is so not the case. In winter, in an effort to keep warm, we rely on using heaters, hairdryers and hats (yep, hats) which quite literally suck the moisture and oils...
An Unwanted Christmas Present
When we came into our office on Thursday 18th December the phone was unusually busy – in fact, it was ringing off the hook. People had received an email, seemingly from AquAid, stating that we had taken a card payment from them. Attached to the email was supposedly...
Humour at the Water Cooler – 2015 New Year’s Resolutions
I personally don’t ‘do’ New Year’s resolutions. Why not, you ask? Well, think about it: you put yourself under inordinate amounts of stress (which kind of puts paid to resolutions like, ‘I won’t stress as much’) which pretty much sets the pace for the rest of the...
Water Cooler Wonder – Unusual Christmas Traditions around the Globe
Talking about Christmas time again, Fern? Yes, I believe I am. You were well warned, dear blog follower that I really do love Christmas time. So far, we know that Ian Thorpe, co-founder of The Africa Trust, will be with the Maasai eating a slap of meal of wood fire...
Tales from Around the Water Cooler – Plum Pudding
The Tradition of the Christmas Pudding We all should know by now that I have a great love of food, celebration, festivals, traditions – I can wax lyrical for hours. Waxing the floor (i.e. domestic work), not so much. I was hard pressed to choose what Christmas dish to...
Getting to know your Water Team at AquAid
♪ Getting to know youuuu Getting to know all about you Getting to like youuuuu Getting to hope you like meeee ... ♪ Okay, perhaps the song from ‘The King and I’ is not relevant to the topic at hand, but word association and all that. Seriously though - although it’s...
Silly Season Humour
We all know that the December month just lends itself towards often bizarre and excessive silly behaviour and the corny jokes about Father Christmas, reindeer, Santa Claus and decorations abound. I, for one, have a particular fondness for the ultimate corny joke....
Water in Rituals
“Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure.” ~ Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) Canticle of the Sun circa 1225. I think I’ve detailed about how all-encompassing water is, whether it’s in our daily lives, daily usage...
Why does Water float in Space?
I’ve had a look at a number of NASA astronauts in space clips and my favourites are always those when you see water globules floating around. The only astronaut sequence that doesn’t involve some inanimate object floating around that I enjoy has to be when Howie (Big...
Water and Air Travel
We should all know by now that keeping hydrated is one of the givens whilst travelling – it really is one of the simplest ways to combat fatigue, puffiness (everywhere where it shouldn't be), jet lag and generally feeling like you've partied with a roving band of...
Did you hear the one about the AquAid employee?
There’s something special about making people laugh, whether it’s around the water cooler at the office, with our mates at the pub or in front of a room full of strangers. One of our AquAid employees, Martin Huburn, does just that. During the day he does admin at our...
Our Artist’s Impressions
Water Cooler Wonder – Maps
I read this article a while ago: *‘US-born neuroscientist John O'Keefe has jointly won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering the brain's navigation system. Is it any surprise then that he loves Ordnance Survey maps, writes Luke Jones. O'Keefe came to the...
Water Cooler Wonder – Guy Fawkes
Remember remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot ... and if you don’t recognise or remember this rhyme, I have to ask, where have you been for the – oh, last hundred years or so? I’ve...
Watery Books
Recently a real and FB friend posted something on my page about listing your top 10 books to read ever or that had a huge influence on your life. Now as a complete and utter bookworm, believe it or not, I was stumped. A wee bit ironic, that – a wordsmith / blogista...
Water Cooler Shenanigans
As you may have gathered by now, I spend an inordinate amount of time water cooling. This doesn’t mean cooling by water (although this does play a part if you get what I mean, kind of, sort of) but rather that I lurk a lot at our office water cooler. Before you get...
Water, Tides and the Moon
I am sorry to bring you yesterday’s news, but it’s possible that you weren’t aware of the event, so there’s that. This is what it was – there was a total lunar eclipse yesterday. There it was …. and … it’s gone. Apparently, it was a Blood Moon (which should please all...
Water and Blubbing
The giblets in our family were brought up with that stiff upper lip type of manner. No unnecessary emotion, no displays of passion and most definitely no blubbing = crying. Tears were not on. Of course if you were physically hurt (hurt equating to you being starkers...
Water Cooler Wonder – What makes a Planet a Planet?
Once upon a time there was a planet called Pluto, and a cartoon character dog too, lest we forget. Then, the powers that be decided that Pluto wasn’t a planet and it was demoted. I thought that this must’ve been very demoralising for said planet, to be a former planet...
AquaAid – The Home of Bottleless Water Coolers
When you type blogs in English English (not a typo), but your Office is set to American English (default for the globe it would seem) you very quickly develop a sense of humour or humor, with all the typo’s in the different spellings e.g. organise vs. organize; and...
What qualifies as a Waterfall?
There I was, playing with the water cooler bottle (I love making the water gloomph, Mrs Furtheringstoke not so much) when it suddenly occurred to me – what makes a water fall a waterfall? Is it a height, volume, water per second thing or what? Inspired, I made the...
Mind Blowing Water and Energy Inventions
I believe that you will have gathered by now that I’m a pretty huge proponent of The Africa Trust. I may blather on about it, but please, pick one of numerous reasons, not in the least the fact that thanks an incredibly hard working team, potable water is brought to...
Water & Spiders
Yes, it’s come to that. I’m addressing my fears. I know I’m probably one of millions of arachnophobes the world over, but when it comes to this particular fear, I’m only really interested in how it applies to me. And in case you were wondering as to why there’s a...
From Nature – Chocolate
I’ve just blogged about ginger. Prior to that I blogged about garlic. These were all for a series to do with spices and herbs from nature that actually have the most incredible medicinal benefits almost irrespective of the form that you ingest them in. In the ginger...
