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The Big Lunch is an annual event for neighbours taking place on Sunday 3rd June 2012. To find out how you can get involved visit: www.thebiglunch.com
Get your free Pack today
If you’re planning a Big Lunch this summer, make sure you request your free Pack, bursting with all the bits and pieces you need to get started. It includes a wall planner with practical hints, tips and ideas, invitations that you can add your details to and pop through your neighbours doors, stickers, recipes and much much more. Big Jubilee Lunch Packs, including a letter of support from Her Majesty The Queen, are also available for anyone planning an event to celebrate The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
INVITATION 6th World Community Arts Day
World Community Arts Day 17/02/12
” ART AS A CATALYST FOR CARING AND SHARING”
To create a World Festival Society for a day.
” We can either react in fear or anger to the state of our world thus becoming part of the problem or respond creatively and become part of the solution.”
You are invited to be part of a global celebration on 17/02/12.
All we ask of you on that day is to do an arts project, however small or big. Be creative about an issue that you believe promotes “caring and sharing”. Song, dance, theatre, draw, paint, write, make, poem, photogragh, lecture, walk, tour, talk, art class anyway that you feel you are creative!
The first years have seen WCAD grow from a celebration of Reg Bolton to a global event from as far as Brazil, Slovenia, Scotland, Australia, USA, Ireland, Mexico and many more. All we ask of you on that day is to do an arts project, however small or large to mark this day. If you can mark the event on your website in the build up to it that would be great to. It is going to be our biggest yet.
Or join one of the social networking groups on Myspace, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
PLEASE GO TO WEBPAGE TO SEE EXAMPLES OF WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN PREVIOUS YEARS
http://worldcommunityartsday.com/
PLEASE PASS ON.
What is Food Intolerance and Sensitivity?
Although the word “Allergy” is commonly used to describe any unpleasant reaction to a drug, food, insect sting or chemical, this can be misleading. The word should only really be used to describe a reaction produced when the body meets a normally harmless substance, which has been “remembered” from a previous exposure and subsequently produces the “IgE” antibody.
“Sensitivity” is a reaction to a substance, which is an exaggeration of a normal side effect produced by that substance. For example, reliever inhalers used in asthma, if given at too high a dose in a particular individual may cause them to “shake”.
“Intolerance” happens when unpleasant symptoms occur after eating a substance which your body cannot handle because the digestive system does not produce sufficient quantities of a particular enzyme/chemical, which is needed to break down the food and aid digestion.
The causes of symptoms need to be correctly diagnosed so that the management and treatment for either allergy, sensitivity or intolerance can be appropriately taken.
(from http://www.allergyuk.org/allergy_intol.aspx)
Gluten Free Bread recipe
- Mix together 500g Gluten Free White Bread Flour, 1tsp Salt, 7g dry yeast & 2tbsp caster sugar
- Add 350ml milk, 75g melted butter, 2 eggs (beaten) and 1tsp vinegar
- Place mixture in oiled 2lb loaf tin, cover with oiled cling film and leave in a warm place to rise for about 45 minutes until the mixture has risen about 3cm.
- Bake for 45 minutes at 200 (180 fan/Gas Mark 6).
When ready, the loaf should sound hollow.
Makar Sankranti is one of the most auspicious day for Hindus, and is celebrated in almost all parts of India with different names and different rituals.
The festival marks the commencement of Sun’s journey to the northern hemisphere, thereby making the days warmer and longer than the nights – i.e. it marks the end of winter season and beginning of harvest or spring season.
It is one of the few Hindu festivals which is celebrated on a fixed date each year – 14 January.
Some common rituals include spring cleaning, wearing new clothes and exchanging gifts.
In Gujarat and Maharashtra, Makar Sankranti is a festival of the young and the old. Colourful kites are flown all around.
In Punjab, Makar Sankranti is called Lohri. December and January are the coldest months of the year in Punjab and huge bonfires are lit on the eve of Sankranti. Sweets, sugarcane and rice are thrown on the bonfires and friends and relatives gather together.
In Uttar Pradesh, this period is celebrated as Kicheri. It is considered important to have a bath on this day and masses of people can be seen bathing in the Sangam at Prayagraj where the rivers Ganga, Jamuna and Saraswathi flow together.
In Southern India it’s the harvest festival Pongal and lasts for 3 days. On the first day, rice boiled with milk is offered to the Rain God. On the second day, it is offered to the the Sun God and on the third day, the family cattle are given a bath and dressed with flowers, bells and colours, to honour them for their hard work in the fields.
