Vervain is a pretty flowering plant that beautifies your garden and holds a wondrous history, many uses and benefits. This plant blossoms blue or purple flowers that attract butterflies and assist in pollination. The blue vervain is the most talked about verbena officinalis from the verbena family of herbs. The …
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With popular social media sites like Facebook and Instagram that are primarily image-based, we now have a platform to display our digital images for all to see. This created the demand for a digital camera that could fit into our pockets that holds enough megapixels to do the job. Photography …
Read More »Homemade bread in 60 minutes
Bread is a staple for breakfast. We make toast and sandwiches with it, and it comes in handy when you are looking for something to eat and don’t want to spend a lot of time making a meal. In recent times, the prices have risen. If your household eats bread …
Read More »Free Wi-Fi is not as safe as you think
Identity theft has become a concern of most people nowadays. It used to be that the risks were mostly associated with the improper disposal of bank or credit card statements. Just as with nature, identity thieves have evolved with time. One of the newest trends is the use of free …
Read More »Mehndi – yesteryear’s body art of today
By Nadia Ali. Art appeals to the eyes that see a creation on canvas expressed from the mind of an artist’s imagination. But what if we could have temporary imagery painted onto our skin? The centuries-old art of mehndi does just this. It creates a painting on the skin in intricate …
Read More »Martial arts changed my child
By Nerissa Hosein. As a parent I wanted my son to learn to protect himself. In these times between the crime and the bullying that takes place in school it was important for me to teach him to protect and defend himself. So I went to Golden Eagle Martial Arts Academy. I …
Read More »Paw Paw: 15 Amazing uses and benefits of fruit and leaves
The fruit and leaves of paw paw are so useful and beneficial that it makes the argument over its true name, taste, shape, colour, size and spelling insignificant. You may know the long orange fruit as papaya and the round yellow one as paw paw, pawpaw or papaw. The shape …
Read More »Iguana in my mango tree in Felicity
By Candida Khan. There is an empty lot behind our house that is abandoned in Felicity. The grass has grown tall and it has become a shelter for animals like the iguana. We saw two iguanas living there, and I would romantically think of them as probably being husband and wife. …
Read More »Why do I really need insurance?
By Patricia James-Wilson. The topic of insurance and the need of having insurance is always a conversation for contention. The demographics of thoughts and feelings on the topic normally range from those who feel that insurance is a rip off from the word go, to others who will swear up and …
Read More »Relieve stress: 5 easy ways to calm your nerves fast
It is worth remembering that you cannot change the world, but you can change how you respond to it. In other words, you have to find ways to relieve stress as life comes at you. Many people do not realise that the root of most of their medical concerns is …
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