John Keyes

One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.

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Clever wives are ever on the alert for new and better methods of denying and discouraging the amorous overtures of the husband. A good wife should expect to have reduced sexual contacts to once a week by the end of the first year of marriage and to once a month by the end of the fifth year of marriage.

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As soon as the husband has completed the act, the wise wife will start nagging him about various minor tasks she wishes him to perform on the morrow.

From: The Madison Institute

Just surfacing for a bit. I’ve spent the last few weeks in family mode, as we welcomed a new boy to the family.

It’s been 3 years since we experienced this last, and how quickly the memories fade.

The lows of being woken for the third time in an hour to the highs of just holding this new life in your hands and listening to him breathing.

I’ve just finished reading tonights bedtime story to our three year old, and I think I just felt the house leave out a little contented sigh.

Avatar/Pocahontas Mashup

From Randy Szuch.

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A series of public installations from Pete Dungey in Britain highlight the problem of surface imperfections on the roads. “If we planted one of those in every hole, it would be like a forest in the road.”

Go on, go on, go on… Oxfam Ireland calls on the tea drinkers of Ireland to swap to Fairtrade tea

Did you know that less than 2% of tea sold in Ireland is Fairtrade? Many big name brands in other categories (like Starbucks coffee and Cadbury Dairy Milk) have made the switch to Fairtrade – but most of Ireland’s tea manufacturers lag behind. So take action! Check out www.oxfamireland.org/fairtrade and ask Irish tea companies to switch to Fairtrade. Tell them you want them to support tea workers by switching their tea to Fairtrade.