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Rita is looking after the swap shop bit of the forum, here's a message from her: Hi there!
Have you got stuff that you know longer have use for, but can't bear to throw away?
This is the place where you can put your old unwanted stuff and find a new loving home for it!
The idea is that we swap things, so we get something in return, or pay the postage. Recycling is the way to go!
An example post might look like this:
"I have 24 terry nappies, 5 medium white wraps and 3 nappi nippas. I would like books suitable for a 12 month old or postage."
If someone wants further details, they can post in the thread, and when ready to exchange details, send a private message.
Both parties will post a message when they receive their parcels, and I will then close the thread.
There will be no selling for cash, it is strictly not for for profit.
As for what you can advertise, well, anything! Books, clothes, nappies, toys, anything you no longer have a use for!
So get looking in your lofts, garages, cupboards under the stairs and make some space! |
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A few years ago, an obesity researcher at the University of Washington named Adam Drewnowski ventured into the supermarket to solve a mystery. He wanted to figure out why it is that the most reliable predictor of obesity in America today is a person's wealth. For most of history, after all, the poor have typically suffered from a shortage of calories, not a surfeit. So how is it that today the people with the least amount of money to spend on food are the ones most likely to be overweight?
Drewnowski gave himself a hypothetical dollar to spend, using it to purchase as many calories as he possibly could. He discovered that he could buy the most calories per dollar in the middle aisles of the supermarket, among the towering canyons of processed food and soft drink. (In the typical American supermarket, the fresh foods--dairy, meat, fish and produce--line the perimeter walls, while the imperishable packaged goods dominate the center.) Drewnowski found that a dollar could buy 1,200 calories of cookies or potato chips but only 250 calories of carrots. Looking for something to wash down those chips, he discovered that his dollar bought 875 calories of soda but only 170 calories of orange juice.
As a rule, processed foods are more "energy dense" than fresh foods: they contain less water and fiber but more added fat and sugar, which makes them both less filling and more fattening. These particular calories also happen to be the least healthful ones in the marketplace, which is why we call the foods that contain them "junk." Drewnowski concluded that the rules of the food game in America are organized in such a way that if you are eating on a budget, the most rational economic strategy is to eat badly--and get fat. read on here I have to admit that I'm falling in love with Michael Pollan's writing, so have a look at this from him too and then go to our amazon store and buy all his books! |
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This is a lovely interpretation of Hiraeth from a ConkerExchange member: Hiraeth is a Welsh word with no English translation. Some have tried to rather lamely translate it as “longing for one’s country”, but it is so much more than that. Perhaps if I describe how I feel about my home country of Wales it will help to define it a little better. I love Wales. It’s my home, it is who I am. I love every inch of it, from the windswept mountains of Snowdonia to the golden sweeping beaches of Pembrokeshire. From the isolation of the hill farms to the roar of the crowd at the Millenium Stadium on match day. I love the stories from the Mabinogion that I re-tell to my children just as they were told to me as a child. I love the language, ancient and musical, yet still spoken daily by thousands of people. I love the traditions, Calennig at New Year, Eisteddfodau on St David’s Day. I love all of these things, but the sum of their parts is far greater than their individual value. Together they make Wales. Wales is in my blood, it is me. I might be any number of other things, but above everything else I am Welsh. That is why I could never live anywhere else. The hiraeth is too strong. if you'd like to comment on this, members can start a thread on the forum, or if you email me, lorena at conkerexchange.net, I can add your comments to this article. |
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