Author and Celebrant: December 2019

Monday, December 23, 2019

Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Plan a wedding day like no other. Create a wedding ceremony that uses words that speak to you. Invite your friends to a wedding reception they won't want to leave. Go off to a honeymoon from which you'll return ready to celebrate some more.

So start your merry little Christmas with these books, half-priced from Christmas to New Year that will help you plan the big events of your life in the most memorable way possible. On Smashwords.

1,000+ Answers to your Wedding Question - Smashwords

Celebrating Love's Special Moments - Smashwords

You can be a Successful Officiant -Smashwords

How to be a Profitable Celebrant: Practical Tips on Running a Profitable Celebrancy Business - Smashwords

Wedding Your Way - Smashwords

Honeymoon! A Sizzle or a Fizzls - Smashwords

Wedding Words:

Perfect Words for Your Wedding Ceremony - Smashwords

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Saturday, December 21, 2019

Live Healthier - and Sexier

Probably Christmas is the wrong time of the year to be talking about food in a sensible way. Because wherever you may be, the Christmas fare will include some foods that are far from healthy. Or if they start off as being healthy in their natural state, by the time they’re cooked – possibly in litres of oil – they are neither healthy nor recognisable.

But, if despite the Christmas dinner to come, you’d like to know which foods are really healthy, here are some:

As far as meat is concerned, fish is seen as low in calories, high in protein, and full of vitamins and minerals.

Then there’s the eggs which are so full of protein and essential nutriments, that some experts have named them nature’s multivitamin.

And how about the humble potato? Apparently it contains a little bit of almost every nutriment you need - and are incredibly filling. (Often spoiled in being cooked to death in a vat of oil)

If by now you’re thinking ‘give me a break! How about something that I’ll actually enjoy eating. Well, there’s always the dark chocolate. It is high in minerals and antioxidants, believed to provide many health benefits.

Back to the real food. There’s the beetroot. Beloved by the Australians – and many Europeans – but leaving a lot of other countries cold, they are considered one of the healthiest foods on earth, filled with folate, magnesium and vitamin C.

Another runner for the healthiest food on earth – and a totally of a different colour – is, I’m sure you’ve guessed it, spinach. You might have laughed when you saw Popeye do his amazing deeds after consuming a tin of spinach, but in actual fact spinach is packed with energy and vitamins.

But do you know what else is so great about these six foods? They’re not only good for your health, they are also good for you love life. Cross my heart. In my research for ‘Cool Food for Hot Lovers’ I’ve identified around 100 foods that help the lover in action. And the above are just a few of them.

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Tuesday, December 3, 2019

How about some porridge

Just finished reading Agatha Christie’s Crime Collection. In the book she mentions Scotland Yard, and it made me wonder, how does Scotland Yard make its home in London. When you think about it, it’s just as bizarre as having New Zealand Yard in Canberra. Or Canada Yard in Washington. How did it happen?

It probably began back in the days when Scotland had its royalty just as England did. And presumably, from time to time Scottish royalty met up with English royalty in London for various talks etc. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that the Scots – heroic both in fiction and the real world – wouldn’t have claimed the right to a little bit of home by naming the place where they stayed, Scotland Yard.

After all, these are the people that more than four hundred years after they first came into existence, still comfortably wear their tartan kilts.

These are the people who also make no apology for the food they eat. England can have its kippers for breakfast. France can have its croissant. Other countries might have their bacon and egg. But the Scotsman eats his oats and flourishes.

And why not? According to one article

‘Oats are a slow-release carbohydrate, keeping you feeling fuller between meals as they stabilize blood sugar levels. Oats are also part of a heart-healthy diet—research shows they are useful for lowering cholesterol. So you can always be assured no matter which oats you choose you will be having a hearty, healthy breakfast which will see you through the morning and keep you full until lunchtime.’

It was Johnson – that all-knowing Englishman – who defined oats in his dictionary, ‘eaten by people in Scotland, but fit only for horses in England’.

Scotsman's reply to this is, ‘That's why England has such good horses, and Scotland has such fine men!

In researching for my book, ‘Cool Food for Hot Lovers’, I found that there’s evidence that the term ‘sow your wild oats’ has roots in health science, and that oats may be among the most potent and least expensive edible libido enhancers.