Magnoi Koi Carp, the tradition and information.

Advice on keeping koi carp healthy and happy.

Cycling is having a tough time of it at the moment. The world seems to be against everything to do with cycling, except the part that helps save the planet.

The average family of 2007 spent less than 6 hours a week doing things as a family; this excludes watching television which for many families is as good as family time gets.

Italy is famous for many thing's, pasta, architecture, coffee, pizza and pasta just to name a few. But could you imagine a world without Italian cheese, No parmesan on your pasta or mozzarella on your pizza.

Equidistant from the Italian mainland and the Tunisian coast, Sardinia is, in the words of D.H. Lawrence, "lost between Europe and Africa and belonging to nowhere". Sardinia has it's own dialect of the Italian language and distinct customs, the island boasts a fiercely independent character while remaining unmistakably and vividly Italian.

Sardinia's northwest coast shelters a trio of the most attractive seaside resorts on the island, interspersed with some really spectacular coastline. The principal town on this stretch is Alghero.

When I was growing up it was always a sign of intelligence to own a wrist watch. As kids we had no concept of time and we didn't need to worry about time. A wrist watch was something that we knew would govern our lives and was just something else to lose. Then along came the digital watch.

All metal edges that are used for cutting need to be sharpened at some point for them to retain there edge, no amount of technology will ever change that. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, before man even discovered that he could obtain metal from ore he realised that his tools needed to have a keen edge to obtain best results.

I'm sure we all remember the days when you could walk into a sports shop to buy your trainers and the only decision you had to make was what size you need. It's not quite so simple nowadays. Let's just imagine that you need some new sports trainers, where do you start to decide what to purchase?