Picture courtesy of Citrus Pages Ah bliss. The one upside to winter is the abundance of citrus available in the northern hemisphere and king amongst these is, in my opinion, the beautiful, elusive, tarocco, or blood orange, as it is known in English....

Well, how else do you explain it. Just yesterday (it seems) we were celebrating the New Year, and now the last day of the first month of the year is already upon us. Scary how time flies. Christmas and New Year have come and gone, and so has my...

Intuition - something my family is particularly good at. I would not go so far as to say we see the future, but we certainly anticipate it pretty well. At its lower levels, intuition is quite normal for many people - from guessing what's for...

It's official, this winter is officially the coldest on over a decade (in over 30 years according to some reports). There has not been much snow here in central London but the suburbs of London and the rest of the country has seen snow well beyond...

As a book fanatic I love this quote: Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to...