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Hello, I'm the Channel Manager for the William Shakespeare Channel. Please feel free to ask any questions regarding the channel, and I'll do my best to answer them. My particular interest is film adaptations of Shakespeare, although I enjoy all aspects

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Food & Drink > Recipes (Other) Recipes: Great appetizers: 1 of 48

Think of Spain and you think of Tapas, those delicious snacks which go so well with drinks on the terrace or at a pavement bar. Tapas allegedly originated in Seville in Andalucia, when someone ordered a glass of wine and asked for something to tapar' (cover) the glass to keep the flies away from the wine even though they don...
Arts & Humanities > Writing at Helium Should you begin Helium articles by repeating the article's title?: 1 of 46

If someone asked you a question and you repeated the question back to them before giving an answer, the person who asked the question would wonder what was the matter with you, and you couldn't blame them, could you? Well, that's how I feel when I'm rating articles and the first sentence of the article is a repeat of the tit...
Food & Drink > Cuisine & Food (Other) What's in your favorite sandwich?: 1 of 33

A sandwich is a snack that, on the face of it, is so simple, but when you look deeper into the subject, there's a vast potential for disaster. Basically, a sandwich is bread, butter or some other spread, and filling, and that's where the problems can arise. Each component has to be just right for the perfect sandwich. This i...
Relationships & Family > Love & Relationships Does love end?: 2 of 62

Love can change, die or be killed. But I don't believe it ends of it's own volition. Rather than love ending, I think it's more accurate to say the lust and sexual attraction that was mistaken for love has run its course. My first husband killed my love for him. It took twenty years, so it was a slow, painful death for ...
Food & Drink > Poultry Recipes: Low-fat boneless chicken: 1 of 31

Thank heaven for skinless, boneless chicken. It's very low in fat, and versatile with it. I serve it at least twice a week, and we never get bored, as there are so many ways to serve this dieting best friend. This is my favourite recipe. The flavour is so delicate and delicious that you'd never guess it was so simple to...
Arts & Humanities > Poets & Poetry Does poetry matter in the 21st century?: 4 of 108

When poetry no longer matters, the world and its inhabitants will be emotionally poorer as a result. Poetry isn't just people in garrets, scratching away, or intellectuals in their ivory towers, proclaiming and declaiming for the benefit of lesser mortals. Poetry is life; life is poetry. Poetry is an individual observation o...
Food & Drink > Fruits & Vegetables Tips to help you eat vegetables: 1 of 27

We all know we should eat plenty of vegetables, and I love them, but some people's idea of a vegetable portion is a plate of chips with tomato ketchup, or a stick of celery to stir their Bloody Mary. If you don't like vegetables, or your children won't touch them, it's time to think outside the box. The body n...
Creative Writing > Memoirs How I relax: My favorite hobbies: 7 of 174

For me, relaxation means resting the body while exercising the brain. If body and brain are both idle, that's not relaxing, that's vegging out. So what do I like to do? I love reading, and I can go through a good book in a single sitting. My tastes are fairly eclectic - you can as easily find me with a Shakespeare play as an...
Computers & Technology > GPS Devices Will Global Positioning Systems (GPS) ever replace conventional maps?: 1 of 20

I am the world's worst technophobic. The term could have been specially invented for me. In addition, I'm an ultra-cautious forward planner. So, despite the fact that we have an all-singing, all-dancing, showroom-shiny GPS system, I will always print off a map from an Internet route planner before heading off on any journey....
Education > Education (Other) Is history really our teacher?: 1 of 20

If history isn't our teacher, it's not history's fault. How often have you vowed you'd have done something different with the benefit of hindsight? What is history if it isn't recorded hindsight? And it's a very old but very true adage that history has a habit of repeating itself. Anyone who never made a mistake never made a...