I wanted to buy some boiled eggs today which I would use in eating the palm oil rice we prepared at home, only for my mum to beg me to go and patronize her farm neighbour who had just opened a mini kiosk

When I think about how many days I tried to explain to a friend of mine that the additional investment in a cell phone with a lot of memory is unprofitable, it's amazing. It is OK that a mobile phone has

On April 7, 1939, Italian forces under Benito Mussolini invaded Albania and claimed control of that country.2 Italian forces in Albania, April 7, 1939. Author: Kingdom of Italy. Public domain On May 10,

I missed last week's question for the Hive Garden community as I was just so busy moving house. I'm desperate to be done with the massive garden I'm trying to maintain as well as start one in the new place.

Good news my friends - the house is SOLD! How things can just turn on a pin. Last week I was in an anxiety spiral wondering how we were going to pay this stupid mortgage and afford to eat and now we have

Dick-head stupid, annoying, horrible person; jerk: "I couldn't care less what all the dickheads up the pub reckon"; stupid; foolish; befitting a dick-head: "It was a dickhead thing to do";

When someone dies, you focus on the good things - everything you miss. But dammit, Dad could also be a pain in the ass. Every year he'd rubbish me for banging on about my birthday and I used to get so

The auction house, Christies, recently held an auction of AI Art. On their website, in describing AI 'art', they posted this sentence: "AI art has emerged as a phenomenon in which artificial intelligence

The first time I heard a U. S. president referred to as fascist was when Richard Nixon was president. The same charge has been leveled more recently against the current U. S. president, Donald Trump. This

On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated. I wish I had not watched the video that showed the murder. I watched it because I wanted to know if everything that was written about the event was

But...! This mini loaf of bread came out just fine actually! The taste was perfect sour-wise and salt-wise and the texture was also nice and bubbly inside. I was super happy with the result!

There's two things that have taught me about life - actual life, and Hive. Are you ready for it? Things go up. Things go down. Things go up. Things go down. Maybe you are the kind of person that's always

The end of summer is starting to near and I can feel everyone around get into their normal place for the rest of the year to do what they do. I'm not good at that knowing what will happen for the upcoming

When we, the public, watch immigration raids being carried out in the U. S., many of us dwell on the human toll, the individual tragedies that these raids often occasion. The harm done to the targets of

Introduction On Wednesday, July 29, 2025, a powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 struck off Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. This earthquake generated a significant tsunami. Where was the

"...we risk becoming an island of strangers, not a nation that walks forward together": UK Prime Minister Starmer, May, 2025, in his White Paper describing planned curbs on immigration. In June

In scary stuff, you should not show the monster if you are not capable of making it scary enough*. It shouldn't be about the monster, it should be about what it does to the psych and to the humans

Graph from U. S. Census shows decline in births from 2001-2021. Public domain The Trump Administration is floating the idea of giving a $5,000 baby bonus to "every American mother after giving

There is a lot to talk about on this topic, but today I'm kinda continuing the postI made yesterday and talking about how sexual purity is no more important for women. Two things were the major reasons

The death of Popes boosts tourism in the Vatican, and tourism is never complete without capitalism trying to pull off one stunt or the other. They're selling Pope Francis mugs: Key chains: Calendars: And