ASHTANGA YOGA & PILATES

Which one would you choose over the other and why ?

At the moment I would say Yoga because you get into a position and hold it, using your breath to increase intensity.
Whereas with Pilates it is repetitions that count.

SPAM

The Cafe Mouse is being inundated with comments some verifiable, others spam. Reporting those that look like spam seems to work. Apologies if genuine articles get chucked into the spam bin. For instance marissa, Clifford and someone else all have a link to the same Book keeping site.

The African Child

http://www.newint.org/issue102/reviews.htm
Having read this book in my childhood it is one of the few that has remained in my consiousness. I would urge anyone to read it. I find on the link that the author was Camara Laye.

Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, To Kill A Mockingbird is another to add to the list.

South Asian sauces : One not to miss

http://www.manjira.com/index.htm
Definitely worth a try if you want to re-create a Southern Sea Island retreat on a golden beach with coconut thatch hut where time disappears in acres and acres of golden sand.

The Fish recipes (with fresh fish obviously) are my top favs.

If you've tried them out or any other similar sauces drop a line on what the outcome was.

Instead of measuring out 22 yards, the correct distance between the stumps, the Queen's Gardeners at the grounds of Balmoral had used meters adding an extra 6 feet to the wicket.
As a result the Crathie cricket club's ageing bowlers
had all their venom taken out and they ended up being relegated.
"I cannot believe we played a whole season before anyone noticed. It is quite embarrassing but in our defense none of our protagonists noticed either."

Ashes Glory
How can it be
18 years since
ashes tasted like
the sweetest champagne?
Winning the ashes must
signal a time for renewal..
So how about letting shielas
bat or bowl for country and Queen?

Hurricane Katrina

Another really tragic disaster and the deepest sympathy to those who lost loved ones. The tidbit of information that is most puzzling is that the most affected were those who couldn't afford to flee. Couldn't some sort of disaster fund be set up at short notice without the bureacratic red tape? Even if it was neighbourhood for neighbourhood. Having never experienced such a disaster in my life, be it inclement weather or political coup that one has to flee for one's life, perhaps one can't question this non-action. Can't remember what the Brums did in the wake of their recent tornado.