Do you sometimes find recipes in English and don’t know what the abbreviations means? Not to worry. Help is at hand.
“Who can wait quietly while the mud settles?” Lao Tzu
Imagine you’ve been invited to afternoon tea in Britain. Would you know what to do? British etiquette expert William Hanson tells us that table manners differ around the world.
In this video you will learn what an etiquette expert does, some rules for enjoying afternoon tea and how to pronounce the word “scone”. (The sentence should rhyme: Once it’s scone it’s gone!)
Examples:
1 Stir your tea back and forth gracefully not to make a noise (rather than round and round).
2. Keep your hands in your lap (rather than resting your wrists on the table).
At an art gallery, a woman and her young son were having a difficult time choosing between one of my paintings and another artist’s work. They finally decided to take one of my pictures.
“I suppose you liked the winter scene better than the still life,” I said.
“No,” said the mother. “Your painting is wider, so it’ll cover the three holes my son made in our wall.”
Can giving up TV change our brains and our lives? According to this article (link to: fastcompany.com) it can.
Eric Braverman, founder and president of a nonprofit research organisation devoted to brain health, says that television “mesmerizes people and turns them into intellectual spectators. It feeds passivity and makes you less engaged.”
How much television should one watch? Braverman’s formula: “Never watch more television than the amount of time you exercise.”
