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- Haymakers: Watch Wonders (93)
- Q.1 Does your life have a purpose? (20)
- Q.2 Are you an art lover? (46)
- Q.3 Do you have a good imagination? (19)
- Q.4 Have you ever wanted to stop the clock? (19)
- Q.5 Do you believe in fate? (12)
- Q.6 Do you believe in fairy tales? (11)
- Q.7 Have you dreamed of being a champion? (44)
- Q.8 Do you crave a better life? (4)
- Q.9 Do you feel in control of your life? (9)
- Q10 Have you ever seen a ghost? (11)
- Q11 Do you believe in justice? (17)
- Q12 Is our Earth enchanted? (48)
- Q13 Have you ever been mistaken for someone else? (4)
- Q14 Do you believe your stars? (2)
- Q15 Do you sometimes fear the worst? (24)
- Q16 Have you ever had a psychic experience? (5)
- Q17 Can you speak another language? (16)
- Q18 Do you let your heart rule your head? (12)
- Q19 Do you love hedgehogs? (4)
- Q20 Have your eyes ever deceived you? (61)
- Q21 Have you ever hugged a tree? (7)
- Q22 Do you love our Earth? FREE CHRISTMAS PRIZE DRAW! (16)
- Q23 Do you believe all the laws of physics? (15)
- Q24 Do you get enough time to yourself? (8)
- Q25 Do you believe in fairies? (4)
- Q26 Do you take poetry seriously? (7)
- Q27 Do you like gardening? (5)
- Q28 Have you ever lived in poverty? (10)
- Q29 Could you live without machines? (6)
- Q30 Did you ever watch the rain on your window? (3)
- Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour? (9)
- Q32 Are you afraid of the dark? (4)
- Q33 Do you believe in life after death? (7)
- Q34 Have you ever restored something? (5)
- Q35 Do you trust your instincts? (14)
- Q36 Should a good life cost the Earth? (15)
- Q37 Do you know how to have fun? (21)
- Q38 Have you built a house of cards? (3)
- Q39 Do you believe in magic? (30)
- Q40 Can you play a musical instrument? (23)
- Q41 Do you like surprises? (28)
- Q42 Do you enjoy drawing? (5)
- Q43 Do you believe in happy endings? (16)
- Q44 Is there anything worse than a fly at night? (6)
- Q45 Are you good at marbles? (3)
- Q46 Do you value a good education? (14)
- Q47 Do you know your history? (16)
- Q48 Have you ever played solitaire? (5)
- Q49 Do you ever think about the old days? (13)
- Q50 Do you miss someone you love? (3)
- Q51 Have you ever taken part in a protest? (12)
- Q51a How many people does it take to fill up the Earth? (3)
- Q52 Do you believe in miracles? (24)
- Q53 Do you prefer to keep warm? (6)
- Q54 Do you enjoy a bit of a mystery? (29)
- Q55 Do you believe in truth? (4)
- Q56 Do you believe rules are there to be broken? (12)
- Q57 Have you ever spied on anyone? (6)
- Q58 Do things happen for a reason? (37)
- Q59 Do you like surprises? (7)
- Q60 Have you ever experienced deja vu? (4)
- Q61 Have you ever worn fancy dress? (7)
- Q62 Have you ever helped the poor? (2)
- Q62a Is life logical? (4)
- Q63 Do you like the way you look? (1)
- Q65 Have you ever wished you could fly? (5)
- Q66 Do you have a favourite flower? (5)
- Q67 Have you ever decorated a tree? (2)
- Q68 Does the Earth have a spirit? (8)
- Q69 Do you put off to tomorrow what you could do today? (6)
- Q70 Do you like to look at the stars? (19)
- Q71 Is there something missing in your life? (1)
- Q72 Are you a good time keeper? (9)
- Q73 Do you like nursery ryhmes? (5)
- Q74 Do you like puzzles? (10)
- Q75 Have you ever put on a show? (40)
- Q76 Are you going to take action now to save our world? (34)
- Q78 Do you want to be part of the picture? (15)
- Q79 Have you ever looked into the shadows? (13)
- Q80 Have you ever searched for buried treasure? (5)
- Q80a Do you keep a diary? (4)
- Star Question - what happened to the blue ribbon? (6)
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- 25/12/2008: Eartha Dies
- 21/12/2008: Hallelujah
- 14/12/2008: Bush in Boots!
- 12/12/2008: Full Moon Close-Up <> The Day the Earth Stood Still!
- 04/12/2008: Riddle of Giant Rock Sculptures
- 03/12/2008: Smiley face in the night sky <> March of the Invader Ants!
- 02/12/2008: World Wrestling Entertainment: Britney Spears versus Billie Shears
- 14/11/2008: Prince Charles' 60th birthday
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Archive for the Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour? Category
Sir Cliff Richard Golden Anniversary
13/09/2008 by admin.
Sir Cliff Richard has celebrated 50 years in showbusiness by publishing an auto-biography. Sir Cliff used to live in a council house at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire. The house was tiny and he had to share a room with one of his sisters. It was in 1958 that he burst on to the music scene with the song, ‘Move It’ with a style initially based on Elvis. Sir Cliff has has number one’s in each of the four previous decades. The relevance of the anniversary to to our story is simple - for early in our tale Sarah asks Julia about Peter Pan and Netherland! Sir Cliff seems to defy his years, so was fondly dubbed, the Peter Pan of Pop! He was also the front singer of ‘Cliff Richard and the Shadows!’
A devout Christian, Sir Cliff has remained a Bacholor Boy throughout his career. What can we say, other than Congratulations!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iArJm9gBvg
Posted in Q79 Have you ever looked into the shadows?, Q80a Do you keep a diary?, Q75 Have you ever put on a show?, Q62 Have you ever helped the poor?, Q40 Can you play a musical instrument?, Q49 Do you ever think about the old days?, Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour? | No Comments »
Paddington - Please look after this bear! <> Cupid (draw back your bow)
30/05/2008 by admin.
Paddington Bear is celebrating his 50th anniversary today. Here’s a picture of the famed stowaway bear from Peru discovered by the Brown’s at a railway station in West London. They found him craving a better life at platform 8 and had the good heart to take him in and ‘look after the bear’.
As you can discover from the video below, Paddington emigrated on the advice of his dear old Aunt Lucy!
http://www.truveo.com/Paddington-Bear-Please-look-after-this-bear/id/1035976138
As our story explains, Malachi was pleased he wasn’t called Paddington as he felt he’d have to wear Wellingon boots, but he secretly has much love for the mischevious bear!
How curious then that the Brazilian national Indian Foundation today released amazing picture of an uncontacted tribe on its border with Peru. The Brazilian government says it wants to help protect the tribe’s land from illegal logging. They are designed to prove those who doubted the tribe’s existence wrong. More than half the world’s uncontacted 100 tribes live in Brazil and Peru. Take a look at these warriors reacting to the plane… didn’t cupid draw back his bow in our story? Does this mean humanity should live in better harmony with nature?
Let’s ask Amy Winehouse. Does she think that’s right? Here’s a video aired on BBC Three
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymcPoYo8S20
Oh… an anagram of AMY WINEHOUSE is HAY IN ME HOUSE. In April, Amy won 5 Grammy awards at the biggest night in the rock and pop calendar. The star celebrated by visiting her husband, Blake Civil-Fielder, in Pentonville Prison. She dedicated her awards to her imprisoned husband and London’s blaze hit Camden Market, expressing sadness as the fire destroyed her favourite pub amongst other buildings.
Posted in Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour?, Q43 Do you believe in happy endings?, Q75 Have you ever put on a show?, Q22 Do you love our Earth? FREE CHRISTMAS PRIZE DRAW!, Q21 Have you ever hugged a tree?, Q11 Do you believe in justice?, Q18 Do you let your heart rule your head?, Q.8 Do you crave a better life? | No Comments »
The last line of defence <> Albino ‘blackbirds’
06/05/2008 by admin.
As the number of casualties from the Burma cyclone continues to grow, it seems the destruction of the countries mangrove forests left coastal areas exposed to the devastating force of the storm. The combination of more people living in coastal areas and the loss of mangroves had exacerbated the tragedy. A leading Asian politician, Surin Pitsuwan, said, “Encroachment into mangrove forests, which used to serve as a buffer between the rising tide, between big waves and storms and residential areas; all those lands have been destroyed.”
The UN has launched an appeal to raise funds to help the victims of the disaster.
On a much lighter note, a pair of rare pure albino ‘blackbirds’ have been caught on camera in Gosport, Hampshire. It’s another in a string of albino animals seen recently, which is curious given Lucy’s suggestion that we should celebrate diversity as illustrated by the spectrum of colour hidden within the colour white in Nature.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7385714.stm
A closely related condition to albinism is leucism - which involves reduced pigmentation in animals.
Posted in Q34 Have you ever restored something?, Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour?, Q21 Have you ever hugged a tree?, Q20 Have your eyes ever deceived you? | No Comments »
Behold - The Bigger Picture! <> Honey Bees! <> What do you think of it so far?
09/04/2008 by admin.
The influential artist David Hockney has donated his largest work, Bigger Trees near Warter to Tate Britain, home of Stubbs’ Haymakers painting. The landscape - 12 metres long and 5 metres tall - was first exhibited last year at the Royal Academy.
It was painted in situ on 50 individual canvases that fit together like a jigsaw. Trees especially have caught his imagination - we know the feeling! Oh an anagram of DAVID HOCKNEY is C KIND HAY DOVE!
Proposals to protect honey bees in England and Wales have been announced, with the Government seeking advice of 44,000 bee keepers. Numbers have fallen by 30 percent in the past 50 years. One of the main causes has been an invasion of foreign bacterial diseases which have been thriving thanks to higher temperatures in recent decades. The Farming Minister, Lord Rucker to the House of Lords has said the English honey bee population could be wiped out within 10 years. Sir David Attenborough recently said, “If bees and butterflies disappeared, you wouldn’t have any food on your table.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niEZaD_G6PM
What do you think of it so far? Rubbish! Well plastic rubbish. The quantity of rubbish on British beaches has increased by over 100% over the past decade, and most of it is due to plastic. Not only is the rubbish ugly, its also a threat to wildlife. As Emma says, “its like living in the dark ages.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7339737.stm
Posted in Q78 Do you want to be part of the picture?, Q79 Have you ever looked into the shadows?, Q74 Do you like puzzles?, Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour?, Q21 Have you ever hugged a tree?, Q.2 Are you an art lover? | No Comments »
White squirrel of Wye <> Magical Mystery Donor
15/03/2008 by admin.
An eye-catching all-white squirrel has been caught on camera in the village of Wye in Kent. Although the odds of an albino squirrel are 1 in 100,000, the Garden of England seems to be awash with them all of a sudden.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/southerncounties/community/white/critters.shtml
How strange given the role of squirrels in the Haymakers Survey and Lucy’s words about pure white capturing all the colours of the rainbow spectrum.
Remember too there have been several rare albino breeds of animals recorded in our watch. Ought the ‘white squirrel of Wye’ be better described as the ‘white squirrel of why?’ in honour of ‘The Haymakers Survey’, especially as the Hay-on-Wye literature festival is coming up in the spring!
A mystery donor has given £5.5m towards the BBC Sport Relief Appeal! The generousity of the gift was over-whelming, by far the largest donation to a charity telethon ever in the UK, helping to change lives here and in the poorest countries in the world.
Posted in Q54 Do you enjoy a bit of a mystery?, Q39 Do you believe in magic?, Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour?, Q28 Have you ever lived in poverty?, Q12 Is our Earth enchanted? | No Comments »
Stolen hay!
02/12/2007 by admin.
One of the biggest truffles unearthed in half a century (3.3lb) has sold at auction for $330,000.
The truffle looks very odd - just like the brain of a human - rather than round. The rare white truffle was brought by a gaming tycoon called Stanley Ho, an anagram of which is STOLEN HAY! The truffle was sniffed out by a dog called Rocco beneath the foot of a tree near Pisa. Apparently, the dog went ‘wild’ at the discovery! The proceeds from the sale went to charity.
Posted in Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour?, Q20 Have your eyes ever deceived you?, Q12 Is our Earth enchanted? | No Comments »
Fairy tales tour < > Lucky Numbers!
20/11/2007 by admin.
A new map released by Visit Britain, ‘On The Trail of Britain’s Fairy Folk’ gives people the chance to go to some of the most famous places in folklore known for some mysterious inhabitants - fairies! They include the legend of the piper who made fairies dance in Kelso, Scotland. Perhaps the next edition will feature the Nimley Bourne stream? Time will tell!
The company behind Britain’s national lottery say the luckiest three numbers are: 25, 31 and 38. Question 25 is - Do you believe in fairies? Interesting! The number 13 was officially the unluckiest number.
Posted in Q40 Can you play a musical instrument?, Q38 Have you built a house of cards?, Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour?, Q25 Do you believe in fairies?, Q13 Have you ever been mistaken for someone else? | No Comments »
Hey - Let’s buck the trend!
09/11/2007 by admin.
In a bizarre incident at Pittsburgh Zoo, USA, a wild buck deer jumped 20 feet from the top of a high rock formation into the pool of a polar bear enclosure. the young bears - called Nuka and Koda - turn 3 this month. The curious bears pursued the deer about their enclosure but did not mount an attack. The encounter lasted just 3 minutes. We wonder, is this a message for humanity to ‘buck the trend’ on the consumption of the world’s resources - and with it - to help save the bear!
Posted in Q58 Do things happen for a reason?, Q75 Have you ever put on a show?, Q41 Do you like surprises?, Q36 Should a good life cost the Earth?, Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour?, Q20 Have your eyes ever deceived you? | No Comments »
Queen of Hearts
31/07/2007 by admin.
Posted in Q50 Do you miss someone you love?, Q31 Are you a charitable neighbour? | No Comments »