#some of my favourite sturgeon photos for you

[nickyroethemarinebiologist]

Guh....sturgeon time...

#some of my favourite sturgeon photos for you #shes so beautiful <33 #sturgeon #fish posting

[its-deputy-caleb]

Hiii, could i have a request for how the gang members would react to meeting a historian or explorer in the wild?? thank you! I love your blogs sm!!

anon ily <3333 i went wayy overboard with these but i regret nothing bc this was soo cute and fun to write. I hope u enjoy and i made it gn for everyone. I only did the VDL boys for this but if enough ppl like it i might do the girls with something similar idk yet?

Dutch Van Der Linde

Dutch first laid eyes on you when you were hanging off the edge of a cliff after slipping when you got too close to the edge. He immediately ran over to you, helping you off the cliff and getting you settled back on your feet.

He seemed genuinely concerned and agreed to help you safely record the rock carving that was on the side of the cliff face, keeping you from falling.

You were a historian and had been studying these mysterious rock carvings after meeting an equally mysterious man, Francis Sinclair.

You didn’t see much of Dutch Van Der Linde after that until you ran into him again in Saint Denis in the saloon. He remembered who you were instantly and started up a conversation about your work where you chatted away for hours.

You became very close after that and he often accompanied you to Museums and fancy fundraisers that you were invited to.

He’d always get dressed up and complimented your finer outfits which was such a difference to the field gear you’d have on. You’d spend all night chatting away over nice champagne and dancing together before actually engaging with other guests but you didn’t have a care in the world with Dutch in your life.

Arthur Morgan

Arthur finds you standing in the middle of a field, flipping over rocks and staring numbly at what appeared to be a map in your hands.

When he approached you he soon learnt you were a young amateur explorer about to get your big break with a treasure hunt but you couldn’t find the gold bars for the life of you.

Arthur gave you a heart warming smile and held up a gold bar after retrieving it from his satchel having felt a little bad that he’d discovered it not a week before you.

The two of you laughed about it, calling yourself a fool for trying to find it for so long when it was clearly missing— the thought that someone took it clearly never crossed your mind.

Arthur was always a gentleman however and promised to make it up to you. After taking you to dinner and getting to know him better, you spent the next few days camping out and finding a new treasure together.

You travelled through caves and through valleys of flowers to find this treasure. Sometimes it was so beautiful that the two of you just stopped by a stream to let your horses rest and enjoy the scenery.

When you finally found the treasure you gave Arthur a big hug in excitement which caught him by surprised but he happily returned. He let you keep the treasure and wished you luck with more exploring but of course that wasn’t the last time you saw Arthur again.

Charles Smith

Charles meets you one day while you’re out surveying wildlife. You specialised in conservation, wanting to study and protect animal species.

Fresh out of the university from Saint Denis you’d been dying to get out of the confining city and explore the heartlands. That’s where a kind gentleman named Charles Smith had offered to protect you and show you around the herds of bison you’d taken to studying.

You spent days together riding the over the hills and following the herd as they travelled. While you were Charles told you all about his family and the respect and love they have for the beautiful creatures.

It was amazing the array of knowledge Charles knew about bison and you couldn’t stop the smile on your face as he told you about the characteristics of the bison. You rushed to take notes in your journal, knowing that all that he told you would help you study and protect these animals.

“Do you think it’ll actually do any good? The work you’re doing?”

“One can only hope Mr.Smith but I will do everything in my ability to protect such beautiful creatures.”

Even when you had to return to the city for study you constantly wrote to Charles, staying in touch and keeping him updated with all your work. It was hard to say goodbye to someone you’d grown close to but you made regular visits to each other long after that.

John Marston

You first found John in the saloon after a long day at work, in desperate need of a drink. Being a zoologist you instantly noticed the scars on his face and would’ve guessed a wolf was the animal that caused the damage.

The two of you instantly started up a conversation and shared all kinds of stories. He told you about being up on the mountain while you showed him the scar on your arm from your run in with a cougar.

You were collecting a compendium of all the animals across the heartlands and during the months you worked on it, you ran into John more than once.

He was always curious about your work and you often spent time together in the afternoon sun, showing him the animals you’d found so far.

“What about the stray dogs in town or do you only deal with cougars and wolves?”

“Well they’re animals too aren’t they not?”

Even though you couldn’t see John all the time, he often came along with you to see the wildlife and covered you when you were around particularly dangerous animals and you enjoyed every second you had with him.

Micah Bell

When Micah met you he had absolutely no idea what you were on about. In his mind the whole idea of a palaeontologist is ridiculous and made up, much less the fact that you chose to read books and study in your spare time.

At first he doesn’t do anything but mock your work but after running into you time and time again he finally started to come around.

He grew more and more curious when he saw the drawings in your sketch books of dinosaurs and even more so when he laid eyes on the fossils. But knowing Micah, he’s still incredibly stubborn.

“Ain’t no way that thing is real.”

“One needs an open mind to comprehend what’s prehistoric Mr.Bell. It requires a certain practice.”

Every so often on your work you’d run into Micah who’d be riding around on his horse, just passing by. By now you’d consider him a friend and your face lit up as he pulled a small ammonite fossil from his bag.

It wasn’t really your area of expertise but you could tell he wanted to impress you and seemed almost nervous as you examined the fossil. Nonetheless you could tell it was real and you let him keep the small fossil as a reminder of you until the next time you saw him.

Javier Escuella

Javier meets you when you’re down my the docks, trying to capture the sunlight and noticed him fishing.

Not wanting to disturb him you kept out of his hair until you heard him cheer loudly at a catch he managed to pull in. In your particular interest in animals, you couldn’t help but ask if you could take a photo of the fish he’d caught.

From then on the two of you became friends, often running into each other as you tried to capture landscapes and wildlife.

You’d always spend the day together and you’d show him how to use a camera while he showed you how to fish and play the guitar.

When you spent time apart you’d often write to each other to fill the gap. You’d always send pictures with little writing on the back of them while he sent you poems and songs that he wrote for you, promising to play them for you next time you’d meet.

In your personal journal you have the first picture you ever took of Javier, kept safe between the pages. He’s standing along the docks, facing the away from the water as he holds up a large sturgeon and a large smile.

You and Javier always stay in touch and after he told you of his chaotic and dangerous time in guarma he made light of it by telling you about all the different wildlife he saw while he was there.

Bill Williamson

Bill stumbles upon you in the wild by accident. He’s out scouting a lead when he ended up getting lost through the shrubbery and found you examining flowers closely.

When you told him you were a botanist he looked as if you’d just spoken a different language to him because he didn’t have a clue as to what that meant. Bill always made you laugh fondly at the confused look when you told him all the scientific names of flowers.

In Bill’s mind, a flower was a flower. There was purple flowers and blue flowers and even red ones but they didn’t have their own names.

The next time Bill ran into you he brought you what he thought was a bouquet of white flowers. Instead they were actually a species of weed that was poisonous when eaten but it didn’t stop you from smiling and hugging him which was the intended purpose.

In light of that incident Bill was actually curious about some plants, trying to learn about them more. When Bill went exploring with you he pointed out some of his favourites and you picked a few to put them in the brim of his hat for him to take him back to camp.

When you run into him again Bill tries to give you another flower, this time actually understanding the plant he’d picked was a Vanilla Flower Orchid or the Vanilla planifolia but he never learnt how to pronounce it unlike you.

With a high blush Bill placed the flower behind your ear and you pulled him into a hug, being careful not to crush the beautiful flower.

#i always wanted to be an explorer growing up #:') #living my dream #dutch van der linde #dutch van der linde x reader #arthur morgan #arthur morgan x reader #charles smith #charles smith x reader #john marston #john marston x reader #micah bell #micah bell x reader #javier escuella #red dead redemption 2 #bill williamson #bill williamson x reader #rdr2 headcanons #rdr2 writing #rdr2 #red dead redemption fanfiction

[jdu662]

10 songs that bring back memories of my travels: Jo Frost's playlist

10 songs that bring back memories of my travels: Jo Frost's playlist

© Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Alamy Zorba’s Dance by Mikis Theodorakis

© Photograph: Alamy Cape Verde accordionist Victor Tavares, known as Bitori, on stage with bass player Danilo Tavares.

Some of my fondest childhood memories are of family holidays to Greece. These days Zorba’s Dance is undeniably a bit of a cliche, but when I hear that slow bouzouki intro, I’m reminded of my dad, who would put this LP on after drunken dinners and start dancing the sirtaki. I watched Zorba the Greek for the first time during lockdown last year when I came across it in my dad’s DVD collection. I was surprised by how much it affected me, making me pine for Greece – and for my dad, who I realise looked remarkably like Zorba (played by Anthony Quinn).

Vuoi Vuoi Me by Mari Boine

© Provided by The Guardian Sami musician Mari Boine on stage in Norway. Photograph: Gonzales Photo/Alamy

Womad has been the source of so many of my musical introductions: it was there, in 2007, that I first saw Mari Boine – the unofficial ambassador of Sámi music – perform live. It started a fascination with Sámi culture and joik, the distinctive guttural song style of the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia. Several years later I was invited to Kautokeino, way up past the Arctic Circle near Boine’s home of Karasjok, for the Sámi Easter festival. It felt like a crash course in all things to do with joik and reindeer, but it also gave me an invaluable insight into Sámi history and the people’s relationship with those who colonised their land. These days the Sámi have their own parliament, flag and national day (6 February).

That’s It! by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band

© Provided by The Guardian Jazz at Preservation Hall, New Orleans. Photograph: Alamy

Like many others, I saw most of my travel plans scuppered last year, including a road trip from Nashville to New Orleans to coincide with the New Orleans jazz fest. The impetus for the trip had largely come about while binge-watching the HBO series Treme. We’d compiled a playlist for our journey through Tennessee and Louisiana, but when it became clear that our dream of visiting venues such as Preservation Hall in New Orleans wasn’t going to happen, we’d play it at home. This track by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band always lifts my spirits, gets me dancing and makes me dead set on rebooking our trip as soon as it’s safe to do so.

Bitori Nha Bibinha by Bitori

The most internationally celebrated artist from Cape Verde is the late Cesária Évora, the doyenne of morna music, steeped in saudade (nostalgia or longing). I could have picked any number of Cesária songs, but when I visited Santiago – largest of the Cape Verde islands – it was funaná that became the soundtrack of my trip, blaring out of the packed alugueres (minibus taxis), market stalls and bars. Funaná was banned by the Portuguese up until 1975 as they feared the songs in Creole were subversive and its frenetic dance rhythms immoral. Septuagenarian accordion player Victor Tavares, AKA Bitori, is the genre’s unlikely star, largely thanks to singer Chando Graciosa who persuaded him to record this in 1997, and to Samy Ben Redjeb of Analog Africa, who rereleased it in 2016.

Train Song by Sakar Khan

One of the most atmospheric festival locations I’ve visited is the Mehrangarh Fort, home of Riff – the Rajasthan International Folk Festival, held each October during the harvest moon in Jodhpur. This colossal red sandstone edifice reverberates with the sound of Rajasthani folk musicians such as Manganiyar legends Lakha Khan and the late Sakar Khan, masters of traditional bowed, stringed instruments the sindhi sarangi and the kamayacha. Riff is a full-on immersive experience and to do it justice, a certain level of stamina is required as concerts start at dawn, carry on through the heat of the day, then continue long into the night. Whenever I hear the rasping sounds of these ancient instruments, I’m instantly transported back to Jodhpur.

St Thomas by Sonny Rollins

© Provided by The Guardian The Jazz a Vienne festival, France. Photograph: Alamy

One of the benefits of studying French and German (in those happy EU days) was being able to spend a year as an English language assistant in a school in Vienne, just south of Lyon. After my stint teaching, I volunteered at Jazz à Vienne, a wonderful two-week jazz festival held in the town’s Roman amphitheatre. I returned every summer during the early 1990s, making lifelong friends and getting a crash course in jazz in the process. Over the years I saw incredible artists, including Ray Charles, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, and Sonny Rollins, who remains one of my favourite sax players. The experience became the foundation for my love of music from around the world and my work today.

The Plateau by Jenny Sturgeon

I’ve always found comfort in walking, and last year it took on even greater importance. So between lockdowns, my partner and I headed up to the Cairngorms to do some hiking. Just before our trip I received Jenny Sturgeon’s musical tribute to Nan Shepherd’s book about the Cairngorms, The Living Mountain. Every hike we embarked on would reveal different landscapes – and every type of weather imaginable. Back in London, listening to Jenny’s album brings back memories of those mountains, especially hearing the bird song on this opening track, as Jenny sings: “Step on step, foot by foot, we walk that’s how we know, through the heather and the mud, the plateau ringing through our blood.”

Count Your Blessings by the Como Mamas

© Provided by The Guardian Porto Covo beach, Alentejo. Photograph: Alamy

One of my European festival highlights in recent years was FMM Sines, held on Portugal’s wild and relatively untouristy Alentejo coast, in the towns of Porto Covo and Sines. A really relaxed, friendly vibe permeated the opening weekend in the seaside resort of Porto Covo, where a mixture audience of locals and travellers congregated in the main square. The Como Mamas, from Mississippi, were unknown to me, but turned out to be a revelation. As the three singers took to the stage, the atmosphere transformed into something resembling a devoted congregation at a gospel gathering. Since then, Count Your Blessings has become a mantra, particularly last year.

Pothole in the Sky by Lisa O’Neill

© Provided by The Guardian Irish musicians at O’Donoghue’s pub, Dublin. Photograph: Hugh Reynolds/Alamy

One of the things I sorely miss during these socially distanced times is those random conversations you strike up with complete strangers over a pint. There’s nowhere better to do this than in Dublin, especially in one of the city’s many music pubs, such as The Cobblestone or O’Donoghue’s. I haven’t been lucky enough to see the Irish singer Lisa O’Neill at a session, although she was apparently a regular in pre-Covid times. The combination of chat, beer and music is perfect and I can’t wait to revisit.

La Grande Folie by San Salvador

Most of the travelling I do as editor of Songlines is to festivals around the world, and one of the things I most enjoy about them is the communal listening experience. There’s something visceral about hearing music being performed live with other people around you. For me, San Salvador perfectly encapsulate this feeling. A sextet from Saint-Salvadour in south-west France, they sing in Occitan. There’s a real physicality to their music and something incredibly powerful about the combination of voice and percussion. They always finish their sets with La Grande Folie – a song that resonates with these crazy times.

• San Salvador are due to perform at Songlines Encounters Festival at Kings Place in May (Covid permitting)

#songs

[shemakesmusic-uk]

INTERVIEW: Ohmme.

Ohmme - the Chicago-based duo of Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart - will release their new album, Fantasize Your Ghost, digitally this Friday, June 5 on Joyful Noise Recordings, with the physical retail release date pushed to July 31. 

Last week they presentedd a new single/video, ‘The Limit,’ which follows previously released singles ‘Selling Candy,’ ‘Ghost,’ and ‘3 2 4 3.’ ‘The Limit’ is a dystopian dance rocker. With angular, winding guitar and Ohmme’s distinctive intertwining vocals, the track further stretches their already dynamic palette. Its eccentric video was directed by Hannah Welever,  edited/VFX by Priscilla Perez and animated by Connor Reed (Jazz Records Animations). It features Ohmme green screened over trippy clips and stock footage. Fantasize Your Ghost is the direct result of the band spending more time on the road than in Chicago. It’s deeply concerned with questions of the self, the future, and what home means when you're travelling all the time. Early sketches of Fantasize Your Ghost's tracklist were demoed at Sam Evian's Flying Cloud Studios in upstate New York through intensely collaborative and open sessions. The album was recorded over a six day session in August 2019 at the Post Farm in southern Wisconsin with journeyman producer Chris Cohen.  

Though 2018’s Parts showcased their wildly burgeoning influences and talents, Fantasize Your Ghost captures the astounding magnetism and ferocity of their live show. It encapsulates the thrilling and sometimes terrifying joy of moving forward even if you don't know where you're going. It's an album that asks necessary questions: When life demands a crossroads, what version of yourself are you going to pursue? What part of yourself will you feed and let flourish and what do you have to let go of? This is a record of strength, of best friends believing in each other. Unapologetic and brave, Ohmme are ready to figure it all out together.

We had a chat with Macie all about Fantasize Your Ghost, quarantine life, the music industry and more. Read the interview below.

Hey! How are you? How have you been coping with life in quarantine?  

“I'm doing well! Feeling more and more like myself lately. It's been a lot of ups and downs, but I feel really lucky to have my home situation, and am still able to communicate with friends and family. Been doing a lot of cooking and a lot of reading which is ultimately what I enjoy doing when I get some alone time. Really missing community right now, but I know there is another side at the end of this!”

You are gearing up to release your new album Fantasize Your Ghost. What can you tell us about the record?

“This record was born in a time of a lot flux for the both of us. We had been contemplating the idea of home and what that meant to us when the things around us were changing so rapidly. It's a record about change, whether for better or for worse, and diving deep into how you confront that. There are a lot of parts of yourself you identify with over your lifetime, but sometimes those don't always stay the same. There's a lot of freedom in knowing you can move in many directions, but with that comes the realization that you need to grab your own steering wheel in order to lead yourself in a positive way.”

What were your musical influences for the LP? Who were you listening to around the time of writing it?

“We were both really into Kate Bush. We still are - and I think that's a very apparent influence on the record. We love her arrangements and writing style and were listening to a lot of her discography while driving on tour. A lot of Brian Eno, Cate Le Bon, Feist, Le Fille De Illeghadad, Bulgarian State Television Choir... We listened to a lot of things while we were on tour and I think they all made themselves known on this record in one way or another.”

Were there any other songs written during this period that didn’t make it onto the album, and if so, will you revisit them again in the future?

“Definitely! We have a few that didn't make it on that we are looking to release later in the year. There are a handful of demos that were made that didn't quite get to the official album recording process. We're planning on expanding those whenever we're able to get back together as a full band. That's the exciting part about having two songwriters, there is a wealth of material to work with and it's always exciting to hear what the other person is working on.”

What was your favourite part recording Fantasize Your Ghost? Did you learn anything new during the creative process this time around?

“I loved recording ‘Sturgeon Moon’. It is the improvised track on the record, and we recorded it late at night under a full moon (The Sturgeon Moon). We went up to a family friend's farm to record, so it was really great to hear all the ambient noise of the animals/bugs/birds that were swirling around us. The majority of the basic tracking was recorded in 5 days up there, so we were feeling a little stressed and pressed for time. Recording this track was a really special moment where we were all zoned in to each other and completely in the moment. It felt good to feel so present.”

What do you hope fans will take away from the new record?

“I hope everyone is able to find a little piece of themselves in the record. Sometimes there are points in life that become overwhelming, even unexpectedly so. These things can range from normal every day struggles, to loss of relationships or loved ones, uncertainty of the future, or even confusion in your own identity. I think everyone needs a person they can relate to or direction to move towards when experiencing things like this. It's always helpful to know that you're not alone and that change can be both hard and positive at the same time.”

What struggles, if any, have you faced as artists in the music business and how have you overcome them?

“Overall, I've been incredibly lucky and fortunate to grow up how and where I did, and to have role models that were able to show me what being a professional musician could look like. Early on there were some struggles that came with being young women in the industry. There were times during and before this band where being hyper-sexualized, not taken seriously, and patronized were common occurrences. Currently the biggest struggle is figuring out how to achieve financial stability and how to find accessible healthcare. It's shameful that the most basic necessities such as healthcare should be so out of reach for a majority of people. There are some great resources in place- such as MusiCares, but ultimately that is not enough at the end of the day.”

With having a lot of time to reflect recently, if there was one thing you could change about the music world today, what would it be?

“I answered this partially in the last question, but, universal healthcare! It's a basic need and right that would make the lives of touring musicians and those who work in that field much more at ease. The bonus is that it's not just for the music world, it would benefit the US at large. Most affordable insurance doesn't cover out of state care, and many touring musicians are on the road at least 75% of the year. That's a MAJORITY of the year where you do not have affordable access to the medical care you might need. It needs to change.”

If you weren’t making music, what would you be doing?

“Perhaps I would be cooking and studying mushrooms and psychology. Honestly I'm not sure- it's been part of my life for so long its' really hard to imagine what a life without making music would be. Right now I'm really fascinated by those things and I hope to be a lifelong learner, so this summer I'm going to try and take the time to explore those things, a lot more reading is in store.”

Finally, are you working on anything at the moment during lockdown? And what do you have planned when all of this blows over? I expect you’re keen to get out on the road to tour the album?

“Working on some things- but we also just finished a record! Sima is working on her solo project which is VERY. GOOD. by the way, and I am playing around with some ideas for an audio/visual project I've had floating around for a while. We're definitely going to get back to touring when we're able to move around safely, but I'm very curious to see what the landscape will look like in the future. I think the both of us have a really open mind as to what will happen, because things will definitely look different! We love performing, and we love working with friends and our community, so we're are both eager to continue in that work once it feels safe to do so.”

Fantasize Your Ghost is out June 5.

Photo credit: Ash Dye

#interview #ohmme #the limit #fantasize your ghost

[astrogeoguy]

The Bright Corn Moon Prunes Perseid Meteors, but Saturn Shines while Jupiter Dances and Sports Spots!

(Above: An amazing image of multiple Perseid meteors, the International Space Station, plus aurora on the northern horizon taken by Bill Longo of Toronto in 2015. http://billlongo.com/)

Hello, Summer Stargazers!

Here are your Astronomy Skylights for the week of August 11th, 2019 by Chris Vaughan. Feel free to pass this along to your friends and send me your comments, questions, and suggested topics. I repost these emails with photos at http://astrogeoguy.tumblr.com/ where all the old editions are archived. You can also follow me on Twitter as @astrogeoguy! Unless otherwise noted, all times are Eastern Time. Please click this MailChimp link to subscribe to these emails.

I can bring my Digital Starlab inflatable planetarium to your school or other daytime or evening event. Contact me, and we’ll tour the Universe together!

The Perseids Meteor Shower Peaks!

The prolific Perseids Meteor Shower peaks from Tuesday night until Wednesday morning before dawn. Within a couple of nights before and after the peak date, the quantity of meteors will be reduced somewhat, but still well worth looking up for. Unfortunately, the moon will be extremely full and bright during the peak this year, so the dimmer meteors will be hidden by the moon-lit sky. Thankfully, Perseids are often very long and bright!

(Above: This brief animated clip of the Perseids Meteor shower was produced by Till Credner. NASA APOD for Sept 8, 2018) 

Meteor showers are annual events that occur when the Earth’s orbit passes through zones of debris left by multiple passes of periodic comets. (The analogy would be the material tossed out of a dump truck as it rattles along. The roadway gets pretty dirty if the truck drives the route a number of times!) Over centuries, or longer, the dust-sized and sand-sized (or larger) particles accumulate and spread out a bit. When the Earth encounters them, the particles are caught by our gravity and burn up as they fall through our atmosphere at speeds on the order of 200,000 km/hr. The grains moving that fast through the air generate heat that ionizes the air – producing the long glowing trails we see. The duration of a meteor shower depends on the width of the zone, and the intensity depends on whether we pass through the densest portion, or merely skirt the edges. 

The nickname for meteors is “shooting stars” or “falling stars”, but they bear no physical connection to the distant stars, and all your favourite constellations will look the same as ever at the end of the shower! 

The source of the Perseids material is thought to be 133-year-period Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. The active period for this shower is July 13 through August 26, so keep an eye out for them beyond this week. This shower is known for producing 60-80 meteors per hour at the peak - many manifesting as bright, sputtering fireballs! 

While visible anywhere in the night sky, meteors will appear to radiate from a location in the sky (called the radiant) between the constellations of Camelopardalis (the Giraffe) and Perseus (the Hero), which gives this shower its name. The radiant is low in the northeastern sky during mid-August evenings – and nearly overhead by dawn. Meteor showers are best observed in the dark skies before dawn, because that’s the time when the sky overhead is plowing directly into the oncoming debris field, like bugs splatting on a moving car's windshield. When the radiant constellation is overhead, the entire sky down to the horizon is available for meteors. 

The highest Perseid meteor rates this year are expected to occur on from Tuesday night into Wednesday morning August 12-13, when the Earth will be closest to the orbit of comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle and densest part of its debris trail. If you begin to watch after dark on Tuesday evening, you might catch very long meteors that are skimming the Earth’s upper atmosphere. These are fewer, but spectacular. As the night rolls on, the radiant of the meteors will rise higher in the sky, revealing more meteors because they are no longer hidden by the bulk of Earth. The absolute best time to view is around 4 am local time when the radiant will be almost overhead.

(Above: The radiant for the annual Perseids Meteor Shower is in northern Perseus, shown here at 1 am local time this week. But don’t watch for meteors there - any appearing in that area will be the shortest because they are heading directly towards you!) 

For best results, try to find a safe viewing location with as much open sky as possible. If you can hide the moon behind a building or tree, that will help. You can start watching as soon as it is dark - to catch very long meteors produced by particles skimming the Earth’s upper atmosphere. These are rarer, but leave very long streaks. Don’t worry about watching the radiant. Meteors from that position will be heading directly towards you and have very short trails. 

Bring a blanket for warmth and a chaise to avoid neck strain, plus snacks and drinks. Try to keep watching the sky even when chatting with friends or family – they’ll understand. Call out when you see one; a bit of friendly competition is fun! 

Don’t look at your phone or tablet – the bright screen will spoil your dark adaptation. If you can, minimize the brightness or cover the screen with red film. Disabling app notifications will reduce the chances of unexpected bright light, too. And remember that binoculars and telescopes will not help you see meteors because they have fields of view that are too narrow. I’ll post some diagrams here. Good hunting! 

The Moon and Planets

This week, the moon will reach its full phase and illuminate the night sky worldwide – to the disappointment of Perseid Meteor Shower viewers. Then the moon will commence its two-week swing back towards the sun. In the meantime, the moon will visit Saturn, and Jupiter will sport spots on Monday and Saturday. Here are your Skylights for this week! 

In the southeastern sky after dusk tonight (Sunday), look for the waxing gibbous moon positioned just four finger widths to the right (celestial west) of the bright, yellowish planet Saturn. The pretty duo will cross the sky together for most of the night and will easily appear together within the field of binoculars. If you watch the pair over several hours, starting at dusk, you will see the moon’s orbit carry it closer to the planet while the rotation of the sky lifts Saturn higher than the moon. Observers in eastern Indonesia, most of Australia, northern New Zealand, Melanesia, and Polynesia (except Hawaii) will see the moon occult Saturn on August 12. 

(Above: As shown here at 9:30 pm local time, on sunday evening, August 11, the waxing gibbous moon will sit above the Teapot-shaped constellation of Sagittarius, and close to yellowish Saturn. Very bright Jupiter will be about three fist diameters to their right. Note where Saturn is so you can find it again after the moon hops away.) 

The August full moon, known as the “Sturgeon Moon”, “Red Moon”, “Green Corn Moon”, and “Grain Moon”, always shines among or near the stars of Aquarius (the Water-Bearer) or Capricornus (the Sea-Goat). Full moons always rise at sunset and set at sunrise. Since this full moon phase will occur in the morning daylight hours of Thursday, the moon will appear to be full on both Wednesday and Thursday evening in the Americas. When full, sunlight is hitting the moon vertically and casting no shadows. All of the variations in brightness we see are generated by differences in the reflectivity, or albedo, of the lunar surface rocks. 

On nights around the full moon phase, bright ray features may be seen radiating from the younger craters on the lunar near side. A particularly interesting example of this is the ray system for the crater Proclus. The 28 km wide crater and its ray system are visible in binoculars. They are located at the lower left edge of Mare Crisium, the round, grey basin near the moon’s upper right edge (northeast on the moon). The Proclus rays, about 600 km in length, only appear on the eastern, right-hand side of the crater, and within Mare Crisium, suggesting that the impactor that made them arrived at a shallow angle from the southwest. (Note that east and west are reversed on the moon). 

The still-very-bright moon will end the week below the stars of western Pisces (the Fishes), but it won’t rise until late evening and then linger into the morning daytime sky. 

Aside from the moon, Jupiter will be the brightest object in the night-time sky this week. As the sky begins to darken, look for the giant planet sitting less than halfway up the southwestern sky. As the evening passes, Jupiter will sink lower, setting in the west just before 1:30 am local time. On Sunday, August 11, Jupiter will end a westerly retrograde loop that began in April, and resume its regular eastward motion with respect to the stars of southern Ophiuchus (the Serpent-Bearer). 

The difference in orbital speed between a given planet and Earth generates these predictable, temporary reversals in motion that astronomers call retrograde loops. During Jupiter’s retrograde period, Earth was passing Jupiter “on the inside track” of the Solar System’s “racetrack” around the sun. The stars, which are far beyond the planets, are fixed in place, allowing us to see the planets move among them. The word planet comes from a Greek word for “wanderer”. Take note of Jupiter’s position with respect to the bright, reddish star Antares, which is sitting about a palm’s width to Jupiter’s lower right this summer. If you check back every week or two, Jupiter’s orbital motion will be apparent. 

On a typical night, even a backyard telescope will show you Jupiter’s two main equatorial stripes and its four Galilean moons - Io, Europa, Callisto, and Ganymede looking like small white dots arranged in a rough line flanking the planet. If you see fewer than four dots, then some of them are in front of Jupiter, or hidden behind it. Good binoculars will show the moons, too! 

From time to time, the small, round, black shadows cast onto Jupiter’s surface by those four Galilean moons become visible in amateur telescopes as they cross (or transit) Jupiter’s disk. On Monday evening from 9:07 to 11:20 pm EDT, observers in the Americas can watch Io’s small shadow transit Jupiter. On Saturday evening from 8:53 to 11:25 pm EDT, observers in the Americas can watch Europa’s shadow transit the northern hemisphere of Jupiter.

(Above: On Monday evening between 9:07 and 11:20 pm EDT, Io’s small, black shadow will cross the disk of Jupiter as shown here at 9:30 pm EDT.)

Due to Jupiter’s rapid 10-hour rotation period, the Great Red Spot (or GRS) is only observable from Earth every 2nd or 3rd night, and only during a predictable three-hour window. The GRS will be easiest to see using a medium-sized, or larger, aperture telescope on an evening of good seeing (steady air). If you’d like to see the Great Red Spot in your telescope, it will be crossing the planet tonight (Sunday evening) from 9:30 pm to 12:30 am EDT, on Tuesday night after 11:30 pm EDT, after dusk on Wednesday and Friday, and after 10:30 pm EDT next Sunday. 

Yellow-tinted Saturn is prominent this summer, too - but its less bright than Jupiter. The ringed planet will be visible from dusk until about 3:30 am local time. Saturn’s position in the sky is just to the upper left (celestial east) of the stars that form the teapot-shaped constellation of Sagittarius (the Archer). To find Saturn, look about 3 fist diameters to the left (east) of Jupiter. 

Dust off your telescope! Once the sky is dark, even a small telescope will show Saturn's rings and several of its brighter moons, especially Titan! Because Saturn’s axis of rotation is tipped about 27° from vertical (a bit more than Earth’s axis), we can see the top surface of its rings, and its moons can arrange themselves above, below, or to either side of the planet. During this week, Titan will migrate counter-clockwise around Saturn, moving from the right of Saturn tonight (Sunday) to the left of the planet next Sunday. (Remember that your telescope will flip the view around.) 

(Above: The ice giant planets Uranus and Neptune are visible overnight this week, as shown here for midnight local time. The main belt asteroid designated (15) Eunomia, which is at peak brightness for 2019, is at upper right, in Aquarius.)

Tiny, blue Neptune is low in the southeastern sky in late evening, among the stars of Aquarius (the Water-Bearer). The planet will be rising shortly before 9:30 pm local time this week. You’ll find the magnitude 7.8 Neptune sitting half a finger’s width to the left (east) of a medium-bright star named Phi (φ) Aquarii, so both objects will appear together in the field of view of a telescope. The planet is actually moving slowly toward that star and will “kiss” it in early September. 

Blue-green Uranus will be rising just after 11 pm local time this week. It is sitting below the stars of Aries (the Ram) and is just a palm’s width above the head of Cetus (the Whale). At magnitude 5.8, Uranus is bright enough to see in binoculars under dark skies, but not this week. 

This week, Mercury is in the northeastern pre-dawn sky - below the stars of Gemini (the Twins). After swinging widely away from the sun last week, it will now be descending again. Your best opportunity to see it will land between 5:15 and 5:45 am local time.

(Above: Mercury is at peak visibility in the northeastern sky this week, as shown here at 5:30 am local time on Monday morning.) 

Venus and Mars are lost in the sun’s glare for the next while.  

Aquila the Eagle

If you missed last week’s information about the constellation of Aquila (the Eagle), I posted it here. 

Public Astro-Themed Events

Every Monday evening, York University’s Allan I. Carswell Observatory runs an online star party - broadcasting views from four telescopes/cameras, answering viewer questions, and taking requests! Details are here. On Wednesday nights they offer free public viewing through their rooftop telescopes. If it’s cloudy, the astronomers give tours and presentations. Details are here. 

On Wednesday, August 14, starting at 11 am, U of T’s AstroTour planetarium show will be a Kids Summer Break Show. Find tickets and details here. 

At 7:30 pm on Wednesday, August 14, the RASC Toronto Centre will hold their free monthly Recreational Astronomy Night Meeting at the Ontario Science Centre, and the public are welcome. Talks include The Sky This Month and funtastic stories of the night sky for public outreach. These meetings are also streamed live on RASC-TC’s YouTube channel. Check here for details. Parking is free. 

On Saturday and Sunday, August 17-18, the Ontario Science Centre will present Rockets, Robots & Rovers, exhibits and activities highlighting planetary exploration. Free with admission to the OSC. Details are here. 

The next RASC-hosted Night at the David Dunlap Observatory will be on Saturday, August 17. There will be sky tours in the Skylab planetarium room, space crafts, a tour of the giant 74” telescope, and viewing through lawn telescopes (weather permitting). The doors will open at 8:30 pm for a 9 pm start. Attendance is by tickets only, available here. If you are a RASC Toronto Centre member and wish to help us at DDO in the future, please fill out the volunteer form here. And to join RASC Toronto Centre, visit this page.

Keep looking up, and enjoy the sky when you do. I love questions and requests - so, send me some!

#astronomy #constellations #Full Corn Moon #Perseids Meteor Shower #Mercury #Jupiter Shadow Transits #Saturn #planets

[phroyd]

There are still a few things in public life that you cannot fake. You can fake photographs and you can fake news. You can fake conviction and you can fake emotions. You can fake a Twitter-petition and you can fake Facebook outrage. But you cannot fake an almighty crowd.

The numbers attending Saturday’s march for a second “people’s vote” on Brexit will no doubt be contested. The organisers claimed more than a million people were out; detractors inevitably argued a few thousand fewer. But make no mistake, for anyone who travelled to it, and shuffled along among it and who tried to find their way home after it, the Put it to the People march represented a formidable sea of humanity, and a powerful strength of feeling.

And let no one tell you that this was just a London crowd. By 10.30 at Speaker’s Corner there were people arriving for the high noon rendezvous from all corners of the country and beyond. Groups draped in the saltires of Scotland and the dragons of Wales. Anna Soubry MP was among the earliest arrivals, walking cheerfully down Park Lane through the gathering crowds with her daughter (“my security for the day”) having been forced to stay away from her home last night after death threats.

Meanwhile phones were alive with feeds and photos of people making their way from Newport and Newcastle, Carlisle and Canterbury. An entire train had been booked from Bristol, rattling along Brunel’s Great Western Railway into Paddington. There were overnight coaches from Inverness, dawn starts from Cornwall.

Some had gone more than the extra mile. Ed Sides, 63, had walked here from his home in Swansea over the past couple of weeks. I’d spoken to him on the penultimate leg of his journey, along the Grand Union Canal. “If I didn’t do something I felt I would regret it for the rest of my life,” he said, voicing the sentiment of many. Sides had tried to make the theme of his quest “walking and talking”: “When you talk to ardent Leavers and you meet them on the street, or by a riverbank where they are fishing or whatever, you find you can have a proper conversation,” he said. “And that’s something we all need to do in the coming days.”

Like many of the marchers, he felt that if nothing else walking had been a good way of avoiding the stress and frustrations of watching the news. “I thought, if I am sitting at home on Twitter for the next three weeks I am going to go insane.”

That feeling was shared by those expats who had flown in from the continent who, having been denied a vote in the first referendum, were now facing the climax of three years of painful uncertainty. Rebecca MacKian, 52, who has lived in Turin for the past 15 years, joined up with 20 others from the “British in Italy” group to be here.

“If no-deal happens then the next morning we will become what the Italian government now calls an ‘illegal resident’,” she said, a status that will affect everything about her life from driving a car to continuing to run her training business. “We have literally been working every day – 1,000 days – with each other to try to get some clarity on all of it. I never thought I would become addicted to Parliament TV, but I have.”

Jason Harris, 47, had got up at 2am to be here with his 14-year-old son Oran. They lived on the frontline of backstop territory in South Armagh, Northern Ireland, three miles from the border. Harris, a landscape designer who works on both sides of the border every week, also felt he had to be here rather than shouting at the television. “It is clear that either no deal or her deal will leave things in Northern Ireland up in the air for years,” he said. “I fear we will spend the next decades just trying to get back the freedoms we have given away.”

Like many on the march his priority had changed in the past week or so, with the options narrowing and the cliff-edge looming, and the online petition torevoke article 50 climbing towards 5 million signatures. “Revoke would now be number one, number two people’s vote,” he said. That idea had travelled in this crowd. Variations of the three Rs populated signs and banners: revoke, remain and reform.

There have been many attempts to divide the respective Leave and Remain tribes since the referendum – into somewheres and nowheres, populists and globalists, gammons and snowflakes.

One of the simplest distinctions, however, has always seemed to come down to that division between those who relish the idea of being cheek-by-jowl with people unlike themselves, and those who feel threatened by that idea. As the tide of protesters inched its way along Piccadilly toward Trafalgar Square it looked like an above-ground exhibition of what most Londoners experience below ground every day: the tolerant sharing of space with others. The people who had come to demonstrate voiced, above all, a conviction, to borrow that telling phrase from Jo Cox, “that we have more in common than that which divides us”. (Cox, it goes without saying, would have loved this event. Her killer would have loathed it.)

There had been suggestions that the march would be met by counter-demonstrations, but there were none in evidence. As the crowd first massed, with its blue and gold EU flags, I heard one or two shouts of “traitors” from those driving by. These “patriots” would have done well to talk to Brigadier Stephen Goodall, who led the “Veterans For EU” group.

Goodall will be 97 in June. He had travelled up from his home in Devon with four generations of his family including his great-granddaughter. During the war he helped to pull survivors out of the rubble of the Coventry bombing. He served in India and Burma and was awarded the Military Cross in 1945 for bravery behind enemy lines.

I had spoken to the brigadier the day before the march about his reasons for coming. “It was an easy decision,” he said. “There is not much time left for me to do anything and I just feel if we can even at this late stage get people thinking sensibly, then it will be worthwhile.” His great anxiety, as a former controller of the Slimbridge Wildlife Trust, was that our fractured politics would deflect us from the co-operative spirit required to combat climate change. “One thing that I always bear in mind from when we were in Malaya in the 1950s,” he said, “was this imperative that governance was first about reaching hearts and minds. We need politicians who think first of people,” he said, “not about their investments in the City of London.”

Goodall was pushed in his wheelchair near the head of the march, along with a brass band. It was impossible watching that sight not to make some comparisons with those few stubborn souls on the ill-fated “March to Leave”, moved to trudge along lonely hard-shoulders by Nigel Farage, only to find that he had turned up for the photo opportunity and left them to fend for themselves. Farage, alive to BBC requirements for “balance”, had returned to preach on Saturday to his handful of leaderless foot soldiers at a pub car park in Linby, Nottinghamshire: “You are the 17.4 million,” he told a crowd of 150.

As the thousands upon thousands flowed down towards Parliament Square there was, contrarily, a spirit that the Brexiters have failed over the past three years ever to begin to convey: that of creative optimism. You saw it in the 100 and more tango dancers led by Matthew Cooper, who had met in growing numbers on each of the past three protest marches, aged between 20 and 80. And in the improvised speeches on freedom given by an Emmeline Pankhurst lookalike under the statue of the suffragette. And even in the bloke flogging Donald Trump toilet rolls from a shopping trolley to stockpile should the rationing begin.

There was a very droll Britishness in the spirit that tempered any edges of anger from the many younger voices on the march. There were lots more students’ union buses than on previous marches, and among them plenty who had lost their faith in the Labour leadership to solve the crisis and deliver on its conference commitment to campaign for a second referendum.

Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on a screen. Get outside.

That brief marchers’ favourite “Oooh Jeremy Corbyn” had been replaced for several sections of this crowd by a more plaintive “Where’s Jeremy Corbyn?” The answer, perversely, was that the Labour leader was canvassing in Morecambe Bay – about as far from this event as it was symbolically possible to go.

Only one of Labour’s frontbench felt able to lend his voice to this event. Tom Watson, breaking ranks, was given something of a hero’s welcome on the speakers’ stage alongside some of those others who have emerged from the sorry parliamentary process with heads held high: Soubry, Jess Phillips, Dominic Grieve, David Lammy, Caroline Lucas; and some of those from beyond the Commons who have best articulated the cause of returning to the people to find a way through the current impasse: Michael Heseltine and Nicola Sturgeon.

Their collective message served as a reminder that when the prime minister stands up again this week and claims to speak for “the people” with her unloved deal and her fingernails-down-the-blackboard phrases about delivering Brexit, she will not speak for the million individuals who filled the wide streets and squares of the capital yesterday, or for the millions more across the country who were with them in spirit.

Watching the crowd I was reminded of a book I reviewed for this paper not long after those electoral convulsions of 2016 here and across the Atlantic. The book, On Tyranny, by the Yale historian Timothy Snyder, was a little survival guide against the digital forces of populism and the brutalist politics they promoted. Snyder called above all for a “corporeal politics” in response, for voting with paper ballots that can be counted and recounted; for face-to-face conversation, and for marching rather than online petitioning: “Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on a screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people.”

Those who did this on Saturday will no doubt be told in the coming days, as Britain determines the kind of country it will become, that they were wasting their time and effort. But this march mattered in the simple and fundamental way that mass marches always matter: as a reminder to those who make decisions in their name that democracy is not a settled state, but a shifting expression of collective will. As one little girl’s sign had it: “The people are STILL speaking”.

Phroyd

#brexit #london #protest #uk news #article 50

[nextstepelectric]

handy electrician near me Nipissing Ontario

Contents

Cheap midland ontario cheap

Home electrical repair service

Home electrical repair

407 candid photos

Post. skilled professional handyman

handy electrician near me Perth Ontario mobile electrician near me Elizabethtown Ontario "We actually had an ICL member event, and I had somebody come up to me and say, ‘Hey, I saw that Idaho Power. solar energy is coming to an electrical outlet near you. It has to. The utility is.electrician near me cheap midland ontario cheap electricians near me for home electrical repair service, installing gfci outlet for bathroom, replace faulty wiring, panel upgrade, ceiling lights, 100 amp breaker and generator repair.electrician s near me Sturgeon Falls Ontario "Have breakfast on me." Around daybreak, Taylor drove over to Dunkin’ Donuts, and then the two went back to Jasper’s Motel, where they continued dealing in the back lot. Justine Zwiebel / BuzzFeed In.The 10 Best Roof Restorers in Woottating, WA – Oneflare – Here is a list of the Best Roof Restoration Experts in Woottating, WA as rated by other customers. Oneflare provides you with up to 3 FREE quotes for finding your Best Roof Restoration Experts in Woottating! Australia’s favourite online marketplace that connects customers with businesses. Get the job from to-do to done with Oneflare!

THE 5 BEST Hotels in Sundridge of 2019 (from $106. – Best Sundridge Hotels on TripAdvisor: Find 382 traveller reviews, 407 candid photos, and prices for hotels in Sundridge, Ontario, Canada.

www.bigcountrymagazines.com On The Bay is published by On The Bay Magazine Inc. 4 issues per year and distributed by Canada Post to the majority of households and businesses in Wasaga Beach.

Additionally, while dab stations do not necessarily require an electrical outlet nearby. You never know when this stuff will come in handy, but having a roll of parchment paper on hand will save.

Morning Update: Police seek suspects in Mississauga bombing, Trudeau speaks on Aecon – For those who haven’t been following The Globe’s coverage on this from the beginning, here’s a handy. person than me, and a team player. She’s certainly a better person than Doug Ford, who narrowly.

 · Going north as a first resort. By Trish Crawford Special to the Star. Fri., near North Bay.. an electrician, retired after 34 years with Ontario Hydro, the couple moved into high gear.

home electrician near me Neebing Ontario THORNDIKE, Maine – Last December, the Thorndike Congregational Church was reduced to a smoldering pile of rubble after a late-night electrical fire demolished. is a church trustee. “He helps me a.

Busy Bee Tools is Canada’s largest Woodworking & Metalworking retailer. Find power tools, woodworking tools & metalworking tools at factory direct prices.

Hi my name is Jonathan. I have been doing Handyman work for over 10 years. My experience and customer awareness and satisfactory is what makes me a professional Handy Man. Now I’m apart of the "Handy Pro Premium Team". I have been recognized as a pro member because I carry qualities, feedback and ratings that make every experience great.

find electrician near me Carleton Place Ontario I’m Charlie Dobie, the creator and maintainer of this website. I joined the Royal Canadian Navy in September 1960, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, under the three-year On The job training (ojt) programme. I took basic training in Corn­wallis, NS, and in January 1961 was posted to HMCS Ste. Therese, in Victoria BC.I served there as a sonarman (OSSN & ABSN) for the duration of my time and was released.

Can a handyman do electrical work? There is only one way to answer that, and it’s with a question: Is the handyman licensed to do electrical work? Folks, some handymen are licensed to do electrical work. Some are not. There is only one way to find out, which is to ask for the handyman’s license number, and to check it. Handyman vs. Master.

It is the fifth-largest city in the greater toronto area, and the 17th-largest city in Canada.electrician for hire near me Barrie Ontario Handyman – How to Find and Hire Local Handymen | Angie’s List – A handyman or handywoman is a skilled "jack of all trades" who can complete a wide range of repairs or home improvement jobs.

electrician contractors near me Kitchener Ontario Search Near. HomeStars Ontario Kitchener General Contractors General Contractors in Kitchener, Ontario. Planning for a large scale home improvement project? Hire a general contractor to take care of various aspects of the work and make sure the project is delivered on time.

favorite this post HANDYMAN PRO / PLUMBING /ELECTRICAL /TILE / PAINT / BATH / KITCHEN / (RIVERSIDE EASTVALE MIRALOMA) hide this posting unhide < image 1 of 24 > limonite near etiwanda QR Code Link to This post. skilled professional handyman AND TECHNICIAN INSTALLER! BEFORE YOU START READING CHECK MY VIDEOS SEE ME IN ACTION!!.

from Find Georgetown Ontario electrician - Greenelectricitynetwork https://www.greenelectricitynetwork.org/handy-electrician-near-me-nipissing-ontario/ via https://www.greenelectricitynetwork.org

#Find Georgetown Ontario electrician - Greenelectricitynetwork

[aigoootome]

Stardew faves - a list

[earlier post - tumblr was giving me trouble creating it] When I started the game, I missed harvest moon. I didn’t think i’d come to enjoy Stardew as much as I have. The game really does really well on the breadth of things to do, the quests, the tasks and upgrades and of course planning and designing the farm along with trying a few different farm maps and overall feeling of wamth and community. There are a few characters I’m glad to have come to love. 

 This is really just a list of characters and in-game forageable or grown etc items that i like. I’ve made it because I felt like it, because it’s part of my process of enjoying the game. I might edit it later to add or remove some things. The list is accompanied by screenshots that might be a little spoilerific.  

[Favourite characters ]

Harvey. is my most favourite. I adore him and that’s that, Without him, i feel like I might have been FAR less keen on this game. His heart events are golden and have everything about them that I like. Harvey is a wise and warm guy and I really love his lines. 

Demetrius - modded by Haywrites, it brought out the character’s personality btter but I loved him in vanilla too. 

Linus - modded by Haywrites

Jas

Shane - I also use some mods for him but in vanilla there was something that made me relate to him and think warmly about him too.  

Kent

Penny

Grandpa

Eliott - also modded / dialogue - expansion mods

Gus

Willy - modded by...Haywrites. I sincerely enjoy that modder’s efforts. 

Evelyn and George - I really adore them! 

wizard - Haywrites mod. Thanks to Haywrites, he has some really interesting tales to tell. 

Jumino

Dwarf -haywriites mod. Dwarf puts the farmer through trial of rejection first, an interesting idea, thoug i don’t always like his new lines but the overall feel is...haywrites made him more interesting. 

Krobus

There is potential in some others: Pierre sounds like he has stories to tell. Apprently he also practices opera singing - is he any good? Again, this character has a potential for a mod rewrite to give him more stories to tell. 

Shop keepers

ancient mariner

Travelling cart

Gunther

[Favourite season]

Spring and Fall, especially with Starblue Valley mod – the colours are so much better than in vanilla.

This is ali’s foraging map mod - for the forest farm. The area  which normally would have been a cliff felt empty so I planted some trees and felt happy to make Harvey a nice little corner to read like this so in the end decided to keep the mod. 

[Favourite items - chest of treasures]

Mermaid’s pendant

Bouquet

hardwood

fiddlehern

rainbow shell

nautilius shell and fossil

coral

hazlenut

Crystal Fruit

Snow yam

fairy rose

Ancient fruit

Sweet gem berry

Starfruit 

Stardrop - max energy increase, permanent.

cave carrot

winter root

blue jazz

dandelion

strawberry

sunflower 

duck feather 

rabbit’s foot

pomengranate (tree) 

cherry tree - in spring

purple mushroom

morel

amaranth  

iridium ore / bar 

quartz

prismatic shard

omni geode

frozen tear 

emerald

jade

aquamarine

diamond 

solar esence

fairy stone

ocean stone

star shards

golden pumpkin

pearl

lost books 

Dwarf Scroll 

Ancient seed 

Ancient drum

dried starfish

bone flute

ornamental fan

golden mask 

Pets / animals

dog – different fun mods available that transform a boring dog sprite into somethng more custom. I am currently using  Dawn’s Shiba Inu-   because they also took care to modify the icons. Such detail. 

blue chicken 

dinosaur  

rabbit 

goat - with deer mod! 

cow 

pig  - esp. With better pig mod – the pig becomes much prettier

horse – with mods, i currently use better horses and it gives an option to confgure which horse you want. I love that. prettier, much prettier horses. 

[tools / decor ] 

lightning rod 

auto grabber + deluxe auto grabber mod [for coop and/or greenhouse-helps a lot] 

Crystalarium 

keg

Stone of perfection 

Stone of fortune

iridium sprinkler 

chest / dark craftables – Eemi’s mod

recycle bin

singing stone

stardew hero trophy 

all rarecrows

stone owl

seasonal decor

stone jumino

[buildings] 

Wizard’s warp totems 

Golden clock

[furniture]

Standing Geode,

dried sunflowers 

jade hills 

a night on eco hill 

dresser the one for kisekae mod

bonsai tree

1000 years from now

stump seat

sun / moon table 

puzzle table

mahogany tea table

china cabinet

artist book case / luxury book case / modern book case

gold pillar

manicured pine

globe

model ship

world map

small crstal

house plants

mahogany end table

grandkother end table

tree of the winter star

any of the lamps

red rug

needlepoint flower

little photos

house calenda

nautical rug

tree column

iridium fireplace

crystal chair

starlit wallapaper and flooring

[accessories and hand tools ]

glow ring

return scepter

pan for panning

iridium band

magnet ring 

space boots 

galaxy sword 

warp totems

dressed spinner / treasure hunter

tiara

delicate bow

butterfdly bow

santa hat

lucky bow

[Favourite fish]

legend 

sppok fish

squid  

midnght squid

rainbow trout

woodskip

sturgeon

ice pip

salmon

ghostfish

catfish

crisomfish

albacore

[Favourite dishes ]

mostly the ones with perks :)

Complete Breakfast 

lucky lunch

fried mushroom

fish taco

sashimi

pepper poppers

bean hotpot

pancakes

Tom kha soup

pumpkin soup

maki roll

red plate

eggplant parmesan

Autumn’s bounty

pumpkin soup

super meal

cranberry sauce

stuffing

farmer’s lunch

survival burger

dish o the sea

miner’s treat

roots platter

stir fry

pumpkin pie

fruit salad

coleslaw

fddlehead risotto

lobster bisque

escargot

fish strew

maple bar

crab cakes

[Favourite Areas] 

Secret  woods

Harvey’s room above the clinic

Mountains

Community Center

deep fishing area during night market

fishing levels in the mines 

Ice levels 

three pillars in the desert

Shore  

shore during night market

Grenhouse at the farm

cellar at the farm

Farm

Favourite farm map

Standard – for lots of customization 

Hilltop – for the ores 

Forest - foraging fun

Favourite music

Many. The OST is very nicely done and matches the game / seasons / events https://concernedape.bandcamp.com/album/stardew-valley-ost

. Featured fave track - Grapefruit sky  (Harvey’s theme)

Stardew Valley Overture 

Fall – Raven’s descent] 

Fall – Ghost Synth 

Fall -the smell of mushrooms 

Dance of the moonlight jellies 

Shane’s theme 

Music box song 

pleasant memry 

in the deep woods 

flower dance 

buttercup melody

Echos

spring – the valley comes alive  / wild horseradish jam /it;s a big world outside

a stillness in the rain / duet

a golden star is born

submarine

mermaid

night market

winter (ancient) / the wind can be still / nocturne of ice

a sad story

a dark corner of the past

settling in

Favurite events

Harvey’s heart events

Grandpa’s evaluation

a bear’s wisdom 

Birthday mod 

getting mail from villagers

getting random money from Lewis

Moonlight jellies 

Flower dance 

Wedding 

Night market in winter

Feast of the Star 

Favourite Quests 

Community Center 

Secret Notes 

Lost Books

Artifacts

daily quests

#stardew valley #concernedape #mods #favourites #favourite things

[touristguidebuzz]

5 Awesome BC Ski Resorts You’ve Never Heard Of

5 Awesome BC Ski Resorts You’ve Never Heard Of

While some winter escape artists flee to tropical climates to hide from winter’s chill, we not only embrace the frosty conditions, we crave the adventure it brings. Sandy beaches just don’t have a chance when compared to first lines on a fresh powder day.

British Columbia has an endless supply of world-class ski terrain, with steep vertical chutes, infinite back country and wide-open glades.

Most of the international attention is given to Whistler-Blackcomb and the big name ski resorts in the Okanagan Valley and the Kootenays, but there are several lesser-known ski resorts in British Columbia that will have you smiling from ear to ear.

Related – My quest to visit every ski resort in British Columbia

Powder King Mountain Resort

Located in the centre of the remote Pine Pass in northern British Columbia, about 200 kilometres north of Prince George, Powder King is host to several important ski events and is the preferred choice of many Canadian freestyle teams to train their athletes.

It’s a small mountain with few amenities and only a couple chair lifts, but there are no crowds and more snow than you can handle. If your mission is to shred untouched powder all day, this mountain is calling you.

Shames Mountain

Located 35 kilometres west of the city of Terrace in the Shames Valley of the Coast Mountain Range, Shames Mountain boasts some of the best back-country terrain in British Columbia.

Known for its endless natural glades and epic tree skiing, Shames offers 28 runs and trails that span over 140 acres, including its longest run that stretches more than four kilometres!

The surrounding mountain valleys also have many trails, so grab your snow shoes or snowmobiles and start exploring.

Purden Ski Village

Located 60 kilometres east of Prince George, Purden Ski Village is central British Columbia’s largest ski mountain with over 1,100 feet of vertical drop and 25 marked runs.

Classified as an intermediate mountain, Purden is known for its dry powder, steep tree runs and uncrowded slopes. This alpine village is a skier’s paradise, combining open glades with fast groomers that seem to last forever.

Panorama Mountain Village

With its impressive 4,000-foot vertical,, Panorama Mountain Village has quietly become one of the Canadian Rockies’ premier vacation destinations.

Panorama is ideally situated in the middle of the Fernie, Golden and Banff triangle, making it a great alternative for skiers and snowboarders looking for a less crowded hill that still offers Canadian Rockies snow conditions and a village atmosphere with loads of amenities.

Mount Cain Resort

Located near Schoen Lake Provincial Park on the north end of Vancouver Island, the Mount Cain Ski Area has the highest base elevation of any coastal ski hill in British Columbia, Alaska and Washington State.

It’s not a very big mountain, with only 21 marked runs, but its peak elevation is second only to Whistler. What’s more interesting is the fact that the ski hill is only open on the weekends, which means that fresh powder collects all week, producing knee-deep snow and epic ski conditions.

Related posts:

Getting our snow fix at Big White Ski Resort

Winter in Banff: Our best anniversary to date

Jasper might just be the most Canadian town in Canada

PHOTOS: Snowboarding at Lake Louise Ski Resort

Have you visited any of these BC ski resorts?

Do you have a favourite that we missed?

Share your favourite ski resort in the comments section below!

  5 Awesome BC Ski Resorts You’ve Never Heard Of is a post from: Traveling Canucks

Related posts:

25 Photos from our Snowboarding trip to Whistler, BC

My quest to visit every ski resort in British Columbia

Sturgeon Fishing on the Fraser River in Chilliwack, BC

25 Awesome Day Trips from Vancouver, BC

[vikingnomad-blog]

Photos from Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto

This slideshow requires JavaScript.

Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto

Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto, located in the heart of downtown Toronto, opened to the public in October 2013. The 12,500 square metre (135,000 sq ft) facility holds 5.7 million litres (1.5 million gallons) of water. It holds both fresh and saltwater environments, each tailored to the creatures it houses. There are 13,500 animals from 450 different species housed in the Aquarium of Toronto.

The Aquarium of Toronto took a while to come to fruition. It was originally planned for Niagara Falls in 2007 but was moved to Toronto when things fell through. Construction began in 2011 and took just over two years to complete. The final cost was just under $130 million, $21 million contributed by the Government of Canada, the Government of Ontario, and millions more in property tax incentives from the City of Toronto.

As with any facility of this sort, the Aquarium of Toronto has come under fire by animal rights groups. There has also been a significant criticism of the capture of endangered tiger sharks. Great care was taken when building the aquarium to ensure the safety and health of the animals. For instance, special shielding was incorporated into the construction of the building to protect sharks from electrical fields.

Visit the Waters of the World

Visiting each of the nine exhibits takes you on a journey around the world and into some alien environments. There is a delicate balance struck between recreating a more natural environment for the animals and allowing guests to see creatures they would otherwise not have the chance to see.

The design of the exhibits allows for an immersive experience. Tanks are not just lined up along the walls. They run from floor to ceiling, they are built into stand-alone units, you even walk through a tunnel inside of one huge tank. Many of the tanks have rounded edges and rippled sides, to create a more natural, flowing feeling. The beauty of the building alone is pretty impressive.

In many places, the lighting is very dim (walkways are well defined and lit). This is to protect the animals who live deep in the sea with very little light. For that reason, flash photography is prohibited as well.

Canadian Waters

The first exhibit is Canadian Waters, which features animals from the northern Atlantic, northern Pacific, the Arctic Ocean, and many freshwater species from Canada’s plentiful lakes. Featured Species include a giant Pacific octopus, American lobster, cod, paddlefish, sturgeon, and wolf eel.

The Pacific octopus tank is set in the wall, with a portion that comes out into the walkway. It was fascinating to watch it move from one space to another. Show up at the right time and you will be able to catch octopus enrichment – basically playtime for the octopus.

One of the most impressive parts of this gallery is the massive Pacific kelp exhibit. It contains almost 360,000 litres of water. The huge tank is more than a story tall, with a spiraling walkway around it.

Rainbow Reef

The Rainbow Reef has animals from the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It features coral reefs, home to a huge variety of sea life. Featured animals include the Picasso triggerfish, harlequin tuskfish, lunare wrasse, batfish, unicorn surgeonfish, and sailfin tang. You may even see a scuba diver or two, during one of the dive shows that happen daily.

The gallery is over 200,000 litres of water and contains more than 100 species of fish!

I enjoyed seeing this as I had recently returned from Mexico, where I had snorkeled at coral reefs for the first time. Many of the fish in the exhibit were the same ones I had seen on my trip.

Dangerous Lagoon

Dangerous Lagoon is probably the most awe-inspiring gallery in the Aquarium of Toronto. At 2.9 million litres of water, it is the largest exhibit in the facility. It has a long, winding glass tunnel that works its way through the tank, so you’re surrounded on both sides as well as above as you walk. It is home to some very impressive fish, including green sawfish, sand tiger sharks, green sea turtles, moray eels, lookdowns, and Queensland groupers.

It also has the longest moving sidewalk in North America. A word of warning, if you go to the Aquarium of Toronto during a busy time. There is often a line up to get on the sidewalk. If you are tempted to skip the line and walk under your own power, you can – however, you aren’t allowed to stop in the underwater tunnel. Staff ensured that everyone kept moving, so it’s hard to take photos, even when a huge sawfish swims over your head.

If you are a certified scuba diver over the age of 16, you can book a 30-minute ‘discovery dive’ in the lagoon. Be sure to book in advance, as of this writing, they were booked until the end of 2017.

Discovery Centre

The discovery centre is a hands-on gallery, designed to appeal to younger minds (and those of us who are young at heart). Many of the exhibits are a bit too small for adults, but there are still lots of interesting things to see and do.

Featured species in this area include the clownfish, blacktip reef sharks, wobbegong, zebra shark, and horseshoe crab. You can even reach out and touch the horseshoe crabs in the world’s largest touch tank.

The Gallery

The gallery has much smaller exhibits, containing some of the most delicate species from around the world. I was very excited to see some personal favourites here, including cuttlefish and the weedy sea dragon. Other featured species are a variety of seahorses, piranhas, electric eels, mudskippers, lionfish, and pipefish.

Ray Bay & Shoreline Gallery

A huge, 350,000-litre tank holds rays from four different species and the bonnethead shark. I could sit for hours and watch these graceful animals ‘fly’ through the water. It may not be one of the flashy parts of the Aquarium of Toronto, but it is one of the most tranquil. It provides a much-needed respite from the loud and busy parts of the exhibits.

Shoreline Gallery is the top of Ray Bay, so you can see the exhibit from a different angle. Here, you can interact with rays and sharks in special pools. For an extra fee, you can even get right in the water with them.

Planet Jellies

Planet Jellies was one of my favourite parts of the Aquarium of Toronto. It is dark, with the exhibits lit up in different colours to highlight the jellyfish. The exhibit feels like modern art meets jellyfish tank.

You can see many different types of jellyfish and see their different stages of development, from polyp to medusa. Don’t forget to look up to see the moon jellyfish in an overhead tank.

Life Support System

This gallery offers a behind the scenes look at the inner workings of the Aquarium of Toronto. See what it takes to keep all the water clean and the animals alive, with real-time numbers on display for the curious.

If you’re interested in visiting, the Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto website has information on hours, ticket costs, and extra programs. Plan for a full day if you want to take your time or a full afternoon for a quick walkthrough.

Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto – Ontario, Canada Photos from Ripley's Aquarium of Toronto Ripley's Aquarium of Toronto Ripley's Aquarium of Toronto, located in the heart of downtown Toronto, opened to the public in October 2013.

#aquarium #ripley&039;s aquarium of toronto #toronto aquarium #toronto fish #toronto sharks

[trendingnewsb]

Election 2017: What do leaders do in their spare time? – BBC News

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption Which political heavyweight likes to bounce around on a trampoline – naked?

Politicians are busy people. When they’re not running the country or their party, they’re trying to persuade the public to vote for them. But they also have families, hobbies and passions. So, when they do get a bit of spare time, what exactly do the party leaders do with it?

Leisure time

Image copyright PA

Image caption Theresa May often heads to the hills with her husband Philip

Prime Minister Theresa May likes to stretch her legs up and down hills and mountains, saying she decided to call the current election while walking in the Welsh mountains.

Mrs May has also said she and her husband Philip enjoy “quite strenuous walking up mountains in Switzerland”. It may be worth remembering that the prime minister studied Geography at Oxford University.

And while it’s not exactly a hobby, she’s also known for her love of shopping for shoes.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has an interest in the design and history of manhole covers – a hobby which he himself has described as “zany”.

“My mother always said there’s history in drain covers. I take pictures of them. People think it’s a little odd, but there we are.”

He also likes to visit Cambridge. “One of my secret joys is to get a train up and ride around for the day.” He couldn’t drive there, because he doesn’t own a car, which perhaps goes some way to explain his interest in trains.

He’s also very keen on growing his own veg. “I always make time for my allotment. You like a dry summer because the weeds don’t grow.”

Image copyright Science Photo Library

Image caption Tim Farron gets a Buzz out of the Apollo space programme

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron is fascinated by space, saying: “I love the Apollo programme… the immense risks that were taken”. He also likes fell running and walking in the Lake District.

When it comes to relaxing, you’ll often find the UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Paul Nuttall in a boozer – he describes himself as a “pub person”, with Guinness his tipple of choice.

Co-leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, “loves nothing more than walking on the Sussex Downs” with her family.

This walking theme among a few politicians raises the tantalising prospect of the Tories, Lib Dems and Greens having an impromptu Parliamentary debate out on a wind-swept hill somewhere.

Image caption The UK’s political leaders have a varied range of personal interests

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), says her favourite travel destinations are Skye and Portugal.

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams’s favourite past-time is bouncing around on a trampoline while naked. And often with his dog, who apparently can do back flips.

Mr Adams says he too can do tricks on the trampoline, but has declined to “discuss it publicly”.

The Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) Arelene Foster has previously been a Girl Guide leader.

Screen time

Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite films are said to be Casablanca and The Great Gatsby – although which version of the latter is unclear, given there have been four cinema versions spanning a period from 1926 to 2013.

Nicola Sturgeon is a fan of Borgen, the Danish political drama about a woman who rises to become prime minister while having to maintain a fragile coalition.

She’d most like to get stuck in a lift with actor George Clooney, because he’s “really interesting”. The SNP leader also likes TV singing contests, being a fan of The X Factor and The Voice, while Arlene Foster is an EastEnders fan.

Tim Farron also watches The X Factor, with his children.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption Don’t be distracted by that grin – George is actually great at conversation too

A university friend of Theresa May’s has said they both loved watching comedy sketch show The Goodies.

And Mrs May recently revealed she watches both Sherlock and Midsomer Murders, but not Broadchurch or Line of Duty.

If Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood spends any time in front of the TV, it’s usually watching political programmes, such as Newsnight and Question Time. She also says the programme Valleys Rebellion by actor Michael Sheen, about political disillusionment in Wales, has made her cry.

Political harmonies

Tim Farron spends his spare time “watching music on YouTube”, a legacy from the days when he fronted a New Romantic band called The Voyeurs in 1980s. At least, it was called that until they realised what it meant. Then they changed it to Fred the Girl.

The Lib Dem leader said the band, which had a recording session with Island Records, were described as a “fourth rate New Order – which I’m very proud of”.

And Mr Farron still hasn’t quite put his warbling days behind him, because his karaoke song of choice is the Waterboy’s The Whole of the Moon and he’s been known to be an enthusiastic singer at the Glee Club.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption “I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon…”

Jonathan Bartley, the co-leader of the Green Party, spends his free time gigging with his band, the Mustangs. He’s pretty good too, as he was nominated for Blues Drummer of the Year at the British Blues Awards in 2010.

His political partner Caroline Lucas cites Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond as her karaoke song of choice.

Arlene Foster also loves music and has sung at weddings.

Among those who just like to listen, Welsh pop band Catatonia are the favourite band of Leanne Wood.

In 2014, Theresa May’s picks were Abba’s Dancing Queen and Walk Like A Man – from the musical Jersey Boys – alongside Mozart and Elgar.

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has revealed musical tastes that range from Joni Mitchell to Leonard Cohen to Luke Kelly on his Twitter feed. Nicola Sturgeon has expressed admiration for the Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit.

Novel ideas

Theresa May once told Desert Island Discs that a lifetime subscription to Vogue would be her luxury item on a desert island. Mrs May has also said that The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a “very, very cleverly written book and a very well-written book, and that it brings home is the absolute horror of the Holocaust”.

And she recently revealed she has read all of the Harry Potter books, although she declined to answer a query as to which of the characters she was most like.

Jeremy Corbyn likes reading the works of Irish poet WB Yeats, while his favourite novelist is said to be the late Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. A fluent Spanish speaker, the Labour leader also enjoys Latin American literature.

Image caption Arelene Foster (left) and Jonathan Bartley both enjoy music, while Caroline Lucas (right) loves animals

Caroline Lucas says she joined the Green Party in 1986 after being “utterly inspired” by Jonathon Porritt’s book Seeing Green.

She’s also mentioned reading The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life, by William Nicholson, which she described as “an incredibly compassionate novel”.

Leanne Wood’s politics are said to have been inspired by the novel Woman on the Edge of Time, a 1976 story by Marge Piercy that’s considered a feminist classic. It tells the story of a working class Mexican-American woman living in a rough area of New York. Ms Wood has said reading it was “as though someone had removed a blindfold”.

Nicola Sturgeon names Sunset Song, a story of a young woman’s struggles growing up in a dysfunctional family in a farming community in Scotland, published in 1932, as her favourite book of all time.

She also says James Kelman is one of her favourite authors, and suggested on Twitter that people should read his book Dirt Road.

Furry friends

Image copyright Jeremy Corbyn

Image caption El Gato has not revealed his thoughts on the Labour manifesto

Jeremy Corbyn currently owns a cat called El Gato – which is Spanish for “the cat”. He has described his pet as possibly being “a bit of a Tory” because of its “disappointing individualism and lack of concern for others”. Years ago, when married to his second wife, he owned a cat called Harold Wilson.

Nicola Sturgeon is afraid of dogs, and had to be coaxed into holding a cute little puppy during a visit to an animal charity.

No such fears for Gerry Adams, who has owned dogs since he was four or five years old. He also likes hanging out with his grandchildren’s dogs, and often goes hill walking with them.

Caroline Lucas has formalised her love of animals by becoming a vice-president of the RSPCA. She and her family also own a chocolate Labrador called Harry.

On the menu

During her later student years, Leanne Wood took a series of factory jobs, and one stands out in particular.

“At Ferrero Rocher in the early 1990s you were allowed to eat as many chocolates as you liked. It sounded like a dream job. I can’t look at them now though because I ate too many. I had so many on the first day that after day three I couldn’t stand them any more.”

But she is partial to a Sunday roast, which is “without question” her favourite meal, as well as her “guilty pleasure”.

Theresa May owns 100 recipe books and never buys takeaways. But she has described a bowl of crispy chips as her own “guilty pleasure”.

She’ll take a nip of whiskey or glass of wine, but didn’t express a preference of one over the other, saying it “depends on the circumstances”.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption The PM just can’t resist ’em…

Jeremy Corbyn became a vegetarian at 20 after working on a pig farm and isn’t keen on alcohol.

Asked what his favourite biscuit was during a Mumsnet Q&A, he replied: “I’m totally anti-sugar on health grounds, so eat very few biscuits, but if forced to accept one, it’s always a pleasure to have a shortbread.”

One of his favourite places to eat is Gaby’s Deli in London’s West End.

It’s been reported that he loves making jam with fruit grown on his allotment, and once belonged to an All Party Parliamentary Group for Cheese.

But his second wife, Jane Chapman, has said Mr Corbyn never once took her out for dinner during their five years together, preferring instead to “grab a can of beans and eat it straight from the can” to save time.

Tim Farron likes curry but is a vegetarian, and his strict eating habits have led some of his colleagues to describe his campaign trail as a “rubber tofu circuit”.

Caroline Lucas is also a vegetarian, while Nicola Sturgeon’s takeaway of choice is Indian.

Paul Nuttall is a fan of “proper milk”.

“Forget your Earth mother, lentil-loving, leftie alternatives like soya and almond milk. Give me the real stuff. I drink milk with almost every meal and have done since I was a kid,” he said.

A question of sport

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption Jeremy Corbyn prefers pedal power to the combustion engine

Jeremy Corbyn is a fan of running, cycling, cricket and Arsenal football club.

Gerry Adams supports Antrim Gaelic football club, where his son Gearoid is one of the managers.

Arelene Foster is said to be at home in a rugby club.

Theresa May is a big fan of cricket, including Geoffrey Boycott and the West Indian fast bowler Tony Gray among her heroes. And she recently said she preferred rugby over football.

Tim Farron, a fan of the football team Blackburn Rovers, is also a keen player of the Beautiful Game himself.

Paul Nuttall played for Tranmere Rovers as a school boy and a youth team player. In 2016, he said he had “never claimed he was a professional player”.

Read more: http://ift.tt/2rRC4Fl

from Viral News HQ http://ift.tt/2qMxHHH via Viral News HQ

#IFTTT #Viral News HQ

[mavwrekmarketing]

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption Which political heavyweight likes to bounce around on a trampoline – naked?

Politicians are busy people. When they’re not running the country or their party, they’re trying to persuade the public to vote for them. But they also have families, hobbies and passions. So, when they do get a bit of spare time, what exactly do the party leaders do with it?

Leisure time

Image copyright PA

Image caption Theresa May often heads to the hills with her husband Philip

Prime Minister Theresa May likes to stretch her legs up and down hills and mountains, saying she decided to call the current election while walking in the Welsh mountains.

Mrs May has also said she and her husband Philip enjoy “quite strenuous walking up mountains in Switzerland”. It may be worth remembering that the prime minister studied Geography at Oxford University.

And while it’s not exactly a hobby, she’s also known for her love of shopping for shoes.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has an interest in the design and history of manhole covers – a hobby which he himself has described as “zany”.

“My mother always said there’s history in drain covers. I take pictures of them. People think it’s a little odd, but there we are.”

He also likes to visit Cambridge. “One of my secret joys is to get a train up and ride around for the day.” He couldn’t drive there, because he doesn’t own a car, which perhaps goes some way to explain his interest in trains.

He’s also very keen on growing his own veg. “I always make time for my allotment. You like a dry summer because the weeds don’t grow.”

Image copyright Science Photo Library

Image caption Tim Farron gets a Buzz out of the Apollo space programme

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron is fascinated by space, saying: “I love the Apollo programme… the immense risks that were taken”. He also likes fell running and walking in the Lake District.

When it comes to relaxing, you’ll often find the UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Paul Nuttall in a boozer – he describes himself as a “pub person”, with Guinness his tipple of choice.

Co-leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, “loves nothing more than walking on the Sussex Downs” with her family.

This walking theme among a few politicians raises the tantalising prospect of the Tories, Lib Dems and Greens having an impromptu Parliamentary debate out on a wind-swept hill somewhere.

Image caption The UK’s political leaders have a varied range of personal interests

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), says her favourite travel destinations are Skye and Portugal.

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams’s favourite past-time is bouncing around on a trampoline while naked. And often with his dog, who apparently can do back flips.

Mr Adams says he too can do tricks on the trampoline, but has declined to “discuss it publicly”.

The Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) Arelene Foster has previously been a Girl Guide leader.

Screen time

Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite films are said to be Casablanca and The Great Gatsby – although which version of the latter is unclear, given there have been four cinema versions spanning a period from 1926 to 2013.

Nicola Sturgeon is a fan of Borgen, the Danish political drama about a woman who rises to become prime minister while having to maintain a fragile coalition.

She’d most like to get stuck in a lift with actor George Clooney, because he’s “really interesting”. The SNP leader also likes TV singing contests, being a fan of The X Factor and The Voice, while Arlene Foster is an EastEnders fan.

Tim Farron also watches The X Factor, with his children.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption Don’t be distracted by that grin – George is actually great at conversation too

A university friend of Theresa May’s has said they both loved watching comedy sketch show The Goodies.

And Mrs May recently revealed she watches both Sherlock and Midsomer Murders, but not Broadchurch or Line of Duty.

If Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood spends any time in front of the TV, it’s usually watching political programmes, such as Newsnight and Question Time. She also says the programme Valleys Rebellion by actor Michael Sheen, about political disillusionment in Wales, has made her cry.

Political harmonies

Tim Farron spends his spare time “watching music on YouTube”, a legacy from the days when he fronted a New Romantic band called The Voyeurs in 1980s. At least, it was called that until they realised what it meant. Then they changed it to Fred the Girl.

The Lib Dem leader said the band, which had a recording session with Island Records, were described as a “fourth rate New Order – which I’m very proud of”.

And Mr Farron still hasn’t quite put his warbling days behind him, because his karaoke song of choice is the Waterboy’s The Whole of the Moon and he’s been known to be an enthusiastic singer at the Glee Club.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption “I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon…”

Jonathan Bartley, the co-leader of the Green Party, spends his free time gigging with his band, the Mustangs. He’s pretty good too, as he was nominated for Blues Drummer of the Year at the British Blues Awards in 2010.

His political partner Caroline Lucas cites Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond as her karaoke song of choice.

Arlene Foster also loves music and has sung at weddings.

Among those who just like to listen, Welsh pop band Catatonia are the favourite band of Leanne Wood.

In 2014, Theresa May’s picks were Abba’s Dancing Queen and Walk Like A Man – from the musical Jersey Boys – alongside Mozart and Elgar.

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has revealed musical tastes that range from Joni Mitchell to Leonard Cohen to Luke Kelly on his Twitter feed. Nicola Sturgeon has expressed admiration for the Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit.

Novel ideas

Theresa May once told Desert Island Discs that a lifetime subscription to Vogue would be her luxury item on a desert island. Mrs May has also said that The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a “very, very cleverly written book and a very well-written book, and that it brings home is the absolute horror of the Holocaust”.

And she recently revealed she has read all of the Harry Potter books, although she declined to answer a query as to which of the characters she was most like.

Jeremy Corbyn likes reading the works of Irish poet WB Yeats, while his favourite novelist is said to be the late Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. A fluent Spanish speaker, the Labour leader also enjoys Latin American literature.

Image caption Arelene Foster (left) and Jonathan Bartley both enjoy music, while Caroline Lucas (right) loves animals

Caroline Lucas says she joined the Green Party in 1986 after being “utterly inspired” by Jonathon Porritt’s book Seeing Green.

She’s also mentioned reading The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life, by William Nicholson, which she described as “an incredibly compassionate novel”.

Leanne Wood’s politics are said to have been inspired by the novel Woman on the Edge of Time, a 1976 story by Marge Piercy that’s considered a feminist classic. It tells the story of a working class Mexican-American woman living in a rough area of New York. Ms Wood has said reading it was “as though someone had removed a blindfold”.

Nicola Sturgeon names Sunset Song, a story of a young woman’s struggles growing up in a dysfunctional family in a farming community in Scotland, published in 1932, as her favourite book of all time.

She also says James Kelman is one of her favourite authors, and suggested on Twitter that people should read his book Dirt Road.

Furry friends

Image copyright Jeremy Corbyn

Image caption El Gato has not revealed his thoughts on the Labour manifesto

Jeremy Corbyn currently owns a cat called El Gato – which is Spanish for “the cat”. He has described his pet as possibly being “a bit of a Tory” because of its “disappointing individualism and lack of concern for others”. Years ago, when married to his second wife, he owned a cat called Harold Wilson.

Nicola Sturgeon is afraid of dogs, and had to be coaxed into holding a cute little puppy during a visit to an animal charity.

No such fears for Gerry Adams, who has owned dogs since he was four or five years old. He also likes hanging out with his grandchildren’s dogs, and often goes hill walking with them.

Caroline Lucas has formalised her love of animals by becoming a vice-president of the RSPCA. She and her family also own a chocolate Labrador called Harry.

On the menu

During her later student years, Leanne Wood took a series of factory jobs, and one stands out in particular.

“At Ferrero Rocher in the early 1990s you were allowed to eat as many chocolates as you liked. It sounded like a dream job. I can’t look at them now though because I ate too many. I had so many on the first day that after day three I couldn’t stand them any more.”

But she is partial to a Sunday roast, which is “without question” her favourite meal, as well as her “guilty pleasure”.

Theresa May owns 100 recipe books and never buys takeaways. But she has described a bowl of crispy chips as her own “guilty pleasure”.

She’ll take a nip of whiskey or glass of wine, but didn’t express a preference of one over the other, saying it “depends on the circumstances”.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption The PM just can’t resist ’em…

Jeremy Corbyn became a vegetarian at 20 after working on a pig farm and isn’t keen on alcohol.

Asked what his favourite biscuit was during a Mumsnet Q&A, he replied: “I’m totally anti-sugar on health grounds, so eat very few biscuits, but if forced to accept one, it’s always a pleasure to have a shortbread.”

One of his favourite places to eat is Gaby’s Deli in London’s West End.

It’s been reported that he loves making jam with fruit grown on his allotment, and once belonged to an All Party Parliamentary Group for Cheese.

But his second wife, Jane Chapman, has said Mr Corbyn never once took her out for dinner during their five years together, preferring instead to “grab a can of beans and eat it straight from the can” to save time.

Tim Farron likes curry but is a vegetarian, and his strict eating habits have led some of his colleagues to describe his campaign trail as a “rubber tofu circuit”.

Caroline Lucas is also a vegetarian, while Nicola Sturgeon’s takeaway of choice is Indian.

Paul Nuttall is a fan of “proper milk”.

“Forget your Earth mother, lentil-loving, leftie alternatives like soya and almond milk. Give me the real stuff. I drink milk with almost every meal and have done since I was a kid,” he said.

A question of sport

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption Jeremy Corbyn prefers pedal power to the combustion engine

Jeremy Corbyn is a fan of running, cycling, cricket and Arsenal football club.

Gerry Adams supports Antrim Gaelic football club, where his son Gearoid is one of the managers.

Arelene Foster is said to be at home in a rugby club.

Theresa May is a big fan of cricket, including Geoffrey Boycott and the West Indian fast bowler Tony Gray among her heroes. And she recently said she preferred rugby over football.

Tim Farron, a fan of the football team Blackburn Rovers, is also a keen player of the Beautiful Game himself.

Paul Nuttall played for Tranmere Rovers as a school boy and a youth team player. In 2016, he said he had “never claimed he was a professional player”.

Read more: http://ift.tt/2rRC4Fl

The post Election 2017: What do leaders do in their spare time? – BBC News appeared first on MavWrek Marketing by Jason

http://ift.tt/2roFPRs

#IFTTT #WordPress

[authorncthomas]

The Media Keeping Us In Our Place

Friday night. I bought the noses. I donated money. Alcohol was in the fridge chilling. All set. The thing about Comic Relief, or Red Nose Day, is that yes you are going to cry at those utterly heart-breaking videos of people’s lives completely torn to pieces by war or famine, and yes you get progressively more irritated as the night goes on when they keep asking you for money even though you’ve already given what you can - but you are also guaranteed the laughs. Laughs that come courtesy of the absolutely cream of British entertainment. And considering the current world we live in where I genuinely wake up some mornings surprised we’re still here instead of vaporised to oblivion, laughs are needed. Laughs are integral. So it’s nice when we all collect as a group to laugh.

I didn’t laugh. I didn’t smile. All I did was sit completely confused at what I was seeing. It was a disaster. The sound was embarrassing. There are gramophones out there with better sound than what we got on Friday night. The hosts were mostly inexperienced. Stellar and reliable acts were completely stale and unfunny. I actually cringed at the Lenny Henry skit. The live audience were indifferent and I am absolutely certain I could hear a bar close by where clearly the real action was going on. I cried when I was supposed to, when children were dying on my screen from malaria, and I also cried when my comedy heroines French and Saunders bombed continuously by doing a skit that is basically the same as James Corden’s, but with costumes. The funny seemingly being you had to guess who Saunders was dressed and that French over-emphasised every word she sang. (In case you aren’t aware of this ingenuous concept of Corden’s, it’s when he drives with celebs in his car, and they sing. Genius. This is what we are told is entertaining now. Much like Lip Sync Battle.)

 But the skit that finally made me switch off was when the so-called darlings of 90s cult comedy Vic and Bob arrived on the stage. I should point out that Vic and Bob have never appealed to me. Not their comedy anyway. Bob can act. Vic can make me want to smear shit on my television screen. Anyway, they were interviewing Susanna Reid who from what I gather, as I am not a celeb expert, sits alongside the utterly loathsome Piers Morgan every weekday morning. The two males, the funny ones in this scenario apparently, were dressed up in joke shop paraphernalia and asking Reid questions in silly voices. I couldn’t exactly hear what questions because I was straining to hear what the guy at the front of audience was asking his wife to get him at the bar. Then, before you know it, there it is. Vic, who is wearing a kilt, opens his legs and flashes Reid a plastic penis that he has attached to himself. There’s the joke ladies and gentlemen. Benny Hill would be bloody proud.  

Saturday night. Twitter informs me, through trending, that Cheryl Cole has had a baby. Good for you Cheryl? Sore isn’t it? She posted a picture of the baby on Instagram. The press haven’t been able to cope with only getting access to the one photo. So much so that they have scrambled for newsworthy pieces for this subject. They’ve queried what the baby’s name could be. They’ve stated that Liam, the dad, has a mum who is so happy. (Hardly groundbreaking news, but ok.) They’ve released a story that Cheryl doesn’t see her uncle as much anymore and so he hasn’t seen the baby. (I haven’t even met some of my uncles.) Who will be the baby’s godparents the Mirror asked. (Vital stuff I know.) And my favourite headline is that Cheryl’s mum will be moving in with the family for a while to help Cheryl “cope” with the baby. That one is also courtesy of the Mirror. Hollywood.com used the word “help”, but not the British Media – they use “cope.”

 Leggings got banned by an airline company over the weekend. This gave the media the opportunity to showcase photos of celebs in leggings, looking great. And real women in leggings, looking like boiled potatoes stuffed in sausage skin. This story gave the Mirror (I know. It’s like I’ve got something against the paper isn’t it? Cos I certainly don’t buy it. I don’t condone murdering trees for evil.) the opportunity for this headline… 5 fashions that we'd ban on planes after United Airlines bars passengers from wearing leggings. I should state that all items listed were in fact unisex. I should also state that every photo used was of women wearing said item. Ooops, nope the cap had a male wearing it, but just for good measure there was a woman’s foot resting on the spare seat next to him. And the photo being used was from the man’s Twitter account complaining about said feet. I actually agree with the guy, keep your disgusting cheesy taloned trotters away from me every time, but it really brought home the message about women and airplanes – we just don’t how to conduct ourselves on them clearly.

Hey, maybe I’m clutching at straws. Maybe I need to calm down. I’m being one of those arsehole lefties who whinge about everything. Breath… …. …

 Remember last week’s awful atrocities in London? Did anyone else hear or read the sentence, “Why aren’t the Muslim community condemning this behaviour?” Well, they did. And it was wonderful. Muslim women, hand in hand, stood along Westminster Bridge in solidarity and defiance against the acts of last week. The photos are wonderful. And the message clear and united. The reporting of it? Not widespread. But the most noteworthy headline comes from the Daily Mail Muslim women dressed in headscarves stand hand-in-hand on Westminster Bridge in solidarity with the victims of London terror attack. At first glance nothing wrong with that. Its reporting what happened, its clear, concise. BUT JUST REMEMEBR THEY ARE WEARING HEAD SCARVES! THAT’S REALLY IMPORTANT! HOW ELSE ARE WE GOING TO KNOW THEY ARE MUSLIM AND, THEREFORE, DIFFERENT FROM US?

And now we arrive at today. The event that incensed me so much I have typed this post with steam coming from my fingers. I’ve already called my computer a knob twice and threatened to bin it if it doesn’t do what I want, which is essentially type the whole thing for me because my thoughts are too quick for my typing digits.

I got several tweets this morning regarding the Daily Mail’s front headlines today. In the picture is Theresa May, the British Prime Minister, and Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish First Minister, who met to discuss, what boils down to, the future of the UK. And the Mail’s headline? Never Mind Brexit, who won Legs-it! Because both women are sat with skirts on which reveals their legs.

What I have listed here only occurred since Friday and yet look at the way women are portrayed. Why are we not angry? I mean, don’t get me wrong. Twitter is going berserk, but Twitter is fickle and something else will trend that will get the populous enraged and we will forget all of this.

 I plan to raise my daughter with the message that she is worth so much and has so much to give the world and that she should never doubt that. That she should strive for greatness. Just because she is a female doesn’t mean her only worth is her looks, or how she dresses. I want my daughter to admire women like this. I don’t want her to be a Kardashian or a Charlotte Crosby. I want her to use her brain, make a positive difference, command respect from her very presence, and one day even have other little girls want to be just like her. How do I preach this to her when society rejects the very values I want to instil in her? Ladies, we have a long way to go. Please, don’t let this one go. Keep being angry. Be a nag. You might as well, it fits the stereotype.

#legsit #sexism #women #dailymail #mirror #comic relief #red nose day #vic and bob #french and saunders #westministerbridge #westminsterbridge #muslim women #cheryl cole #cheryl and liam #united airlines #nicola sturgeon #theresa may #brexit #indyref2 #stridentfeminism #feminism #media

[trendingnewsb]

Election 2017: What do leaders do in their spare time? – BBC News

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption Which political heavyweight likes to bounce around on a trampoline – naked?

Politicians are busy people. When they’re not running the country or their party, they’re trying to persuade the public to vote for them. But they also have families, hobbies and passions. So, when they do get a bit of spare time, what exactly do the party leaders do with it?

Leisure time

Image copyright PA

Image caption Theresa May often heads to the hills with her husband Philip

Prime Minister Theresa May likes to stretch her legs up and down hills and mountains, saying she decided to call the current election while walking in the Welsh mountains.

Mrs May has also said she and her husband Philip enjoy “quite strenuous walking up mountains in Switzerland”. It may be worth remembering that the prime minister studied Geography at Oxford University.

And while it’s not exactly a hobby, she’s also known for her love of shopping for shoes.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has an interest in the design and history of manhole covers – a hobby which he himself has described as “zany”.

“My mother always said there’s history in drain covers. I take pictures of them. People think it’s a little odd, but there we are.”

He also likes to visit Cambridge. “One of my secret joys is to get a train up and ride around for the day.” He couldn’t drive there, because he doesn’t own a car, which perhaps goes some way to explain his interest in trains.

He’s also very keen on growing his own veg. “I always make time for my allotment. You like a dry summer because the weeds don’t grow.”

Image copyright Science Photo Library

Image caption Tim Farron gets a Buzz out of the Apollo space programme

Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron is fascinated by space, saying: “I love the Apollo programme… the immense risks that were taken”. He also likes fell running and walking in the Lake District.

When it comes to relaxing, you’ll often find the UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Paul Nuttall in a boozer – he describes himself as a “pub person”, with Guinness his tipple of choice.

Co-leader of the Green Party, Caroline Lucas, “loves nothing more than walking on the Sussex Downs” with her family.

This walking theme among a few politicians raises the tantalising prospect of the Tories, Lib Dems and Greens having an impromptu Parliamentary debate out on a wind-swept hill somewhere.

Image caption The UK’s political leaders have a varied range of personal interests

Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), says her favourite travel destinations are Skye and Portugal.

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams’s favourite past-time is bouncing around on a trampoline while naked. And often with his dog, who apparently can do back flips.

Mr Adams says he too can do tricks on the trampoline, but has declined to “discuss it publicly”.

The Democratic Unionist Party’s (DUP) Arelene Foster has previously been a Girl Guide leader.

Screen time

Jeremy Corbyn’s favourite films are said to be Casablanca and The Great Gatsby – although which version of the latter is unclear, given there have been four cinema versions spanning a period from 1926 to 2013.

Nicola Sturgeon is a fan of Borgen, the Danish political drama about a woman who rises to become prime minister while having to maintain a fragile coalition.

She’d most like to get stuck in a lift with actor George Clooney, because he’s “really interesting”. The SNP leader also likes TV singing contests, being a fan of The X Factor and The Voice, while Arlene Foster is an EastEnders fan.

Tim Farron also watches The X Factor, with his children.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption Don’t be distracted by that grin – George is actually great at conversation too

A university friend of Theresa May’s has said they both loved watching comedy sketch show The Goodies.

And Mrs May recently revealed she watches both Sherlock and Midsomer Murders, but not Broadchurch or Line of Duty.

If Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood spends any time in front of the TV, it’s usually watching political programmes, such as Newsnight and Question Time. She also says the programme Valleys Rebellion by actor Michael Sheen, about political disillusionment in Wales, has made her cry.

Political harmonies

Tim Farron spends his spare time “watching music on YouTube”, a legacy from the days when he fronted a New Romantic band called The Voyeurs in 1980s. At least, it was called that until they realised what it meant. Then they changed it to Fred the Girl.

The Lib Dem leader said the band, which had a recording session with Island Records, were described as a “fourth rate New Order – which I’m very proud of”.

And Mr Farron still hasn’t quite put his warbling days behind him, because his karaoke song of choice is the Waterboy’s The Whole of the Moon and he’s been known to be an enthusiastic singer at the Glee Club.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption “I saw the crescent, you saw the whole of the moon…”

Jonathan Bartley, the co-leader of the Green Party, spends his free time gigging with his band, the Mustangs. He’s pretty good too, as he was nominated for Blues Drummer of the Year at the British Blues Awards in 2010.

His political partner Caroline Lucas cites Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond as her karaoke song of choice.

Arlene Foster also loves music and has sung at weddings.

Among those who just like to listen, Welsh pop band Catatonia are the favourite band of Leanne Wood.

In 2014, Theresa May’s picks were Abba’s Dancing Queen and Walk Like A Man – from the musical Jersey Boys – alongside Mozart and Elgar.

Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has revealed musical tastes that range from Joni Mitchell to Leonard Cohen to Luke Kelly on his Twitter feed. Nicola Sturgeon has expressed admiration for the Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit.

Novel ideas

Theresa May once told Desert Island Discs that a lifetime subscription to Vogue would be her luxury item on a desert island. Mrs May has also said that The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a “very, very cleverly written book and a very well-written book, and that it brings home is the absolute horror of the Holocaust”.

And she recently revealed she has read all of the Harry Potter books, although she declined to answer a query as to which of the characters she was most like.

Jeremy Corbyn likes reading the works of Irish poet WB Yeats, while his favourite novelist is said to be the late Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe. A fluent Spanish speaker, the Labour leader also enjoys Latin American literature.

Image caption Arelene Foster (left) and Jonathan Bartley both enjoy music, while Caroline Lucas (right) loves animals

Caroline Lucas says she joined the Green Party in 1986 after being “utterly inspired” by Jonathon Porritt’s book Seeing Green.

She’s also mentioned reading The Secret Intensity of Everyday Life, by William Nicholson, which she described as “an incredibly compassionate novel”.

Leanne Wood’s politics are said to have been inspired by the novel Woman on the Edge of Time, a 1976 story by Marge Piercy that’s considered a feminist classic. It tells the story of a working class Mexican-American woman living in a rough area of New York. Ms Wood has said reading it was “as though someone had removed a blindfold”.

Nicola Sturgeon names Sunset Song, a story of a young woman’s struggles growing up in a dysfunctional family in a farming community in Scotland, published in 1932, as her favourite book of all time.

She also says James Kelman is one of her favourite authors, and suggested on Twitter that people should read his book Dirt Road.

Furry friends

Image copyright Jeremy Corbyn

Image caption El Gato has not revealed his thoughts on the Labour manifesto

Jeremy Corbyn currently owns a cat called El Gato – which is Spanish for “the cat”. He has described his pet as possibly being “a bit of a Tory” because of its “disappointing individualism and lack of concern for others”. Years ago, when married to his second wife, he owned a cat called Harold Wilson.

Nicola Sturgeon is afraid of dogs, and had to be coaxed into holding a cute little puppy during a visit to an animal charity.

No such fears for Gerry Adams, who has owned dogs since he was four or five years old. He also likes hanging out with his grandchildren’s dogs, and often goes hill walking with them.

Caroline Lucas has formalised her love of animals by becoming a vice-president of the RSPCA. She and her family also own a chocolate Labrador called Harry.

On the menu

During her later student years, Leanne Wood took a series of factory jobs, and one stands out in particular.

“At Ferrero Rocher in the early 1990s you were allowed to eat as many chocolates as you liked. It sounded like a dream job. I can’t look at them now though because I ate too many. I had so many on the first day that after day three I couldn’t stand them any more.”

But she is partial to a Sunday roast, which is “without question” her favourite meal, as well as her “guilty pleasure”.

Theresa May owns 100 recipe books and never buys takeaways. But she has described a bowl of crispy chips as her own “guilty pleasure”.

She’ll take a nip of whiskey or glass of wine, but didn’t express a preference of one over the other, saying it “depends on the circumstances”.

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption The PM just can’t resist ’em…

Jeremy Corbyn became a vegetarian at 20 after working on a pig farm and isn’t keen on alcohol.

Asked what his favourite biscuit was during a Mumsnet Q&A, he replied: “I’m totally anti-sugar on health grounds, so eat very few biscuits, but if forced to accept one, it’s always a pleasure to have a shortbread.”

One of his favourite places to eat is Gaby’s Deli in London’s West End.

It’s been reported that he loves making jam with fruit grown on his allotment, and once belonged to an All Party Parliamentary Group for Cheese.

But his second wife, Jane Chapman, has said Mr Corbyn never once took her out for dinner during their five years together, preferring instead to “grab a can of beans and eat it straight from the can” to save time.

Tim Farron likes curry but is a vegetarian, and his strict eating habits have led some of his colleagues to describe his campaign trail as a “rubber tofu circuit”.

Caroline Lucas is also a vegetarian, while Nicola Sturgeon’s takeaway of choice is Indian.

Paul Nuttall is a fan of “proper milk”.

“Forget your Earth mother, lentil-loving, leftie alternatives like soya and almond milk. Give me the real stuff. I drink milk with almost every meal and have done since I was a kid,” he said.

A question of sport

Image copyright Getty Images

Image caption Jeremy Corbyn prefers pedal power to the combustion engine

Jeremy Corbyn is a fan of running, cycling, cricket and Arsenal football club.

Gerry Adams supports Antrim Gaelic football club, where his son Gearoid is one of the managers.

Arelene Foster is said to be at home in a rugby club.

Theresa May is a big fan of cricket, including Geoffrey Boycott and the West Indian fast bowler Tony Gray among her heroes. And she recently said she preferred rugby over football.

Tim Farron, a fan of the football team Blackburn Rovers, is also a keen player of the Beautiful Game himself.

Paul Nuttall played for Tranmere Rovers as a school boy and a youth team player. In 2016, he said he had “never claimed he was a professional player”.

Read more: http://ift.tt/2rRC4Fl

from Viral News HQ http://ift.tt/2qMxHHH via Viral News HQ

#IFTTT #Viral News HQ