Is your beauty regime breaking the bank. Here’s some tips to DIY and save some cash
WE all wish we would spend hours being pampered in the beauty salon. It’s good for morale, keeps stress levels down and, of course, the outcome is a healthy, clear, firmer completion and a well groomed appearance.
THERE’S a great poem by Ogden Nash that I used to find oh-so-terribly amusing, until just recently I suddenly realied that it was all about me. It begins with nice Mr Nash rhyming about how middle-aged life is merry and he loves to lead it…. “But there comes a day when your eyes are all right but your arm isn’t long enough to hold the telephone book where you can read it.”
In Cyprus the 14th November is always celebrated as the last day before Christmas Lent. In the old days pigs were raised and fattened up for a whole year to be eaten on Christmas day. So, poultry that each household kept in their back yard (chickens, pigeons and rabbits) were slaughtered on the 14th. Stews, soups and pasta made in poultry stock were the menu of the day.
I FIRMLY believe that Indian cooking is one of the most intellectual and tasty of cuisines, an Indian chef is required to have such a complete mastery over the properties of spices and how they are blended. And nowhere is this more true than for south Indian cooking.
Turkey may be nervously waiting in the wings for membership of the European club, but Turkish food has been steaming on the European table for a long time now. In South-eastern Europe, it arrived centuries ago via Ottoman colonialism to transform local cuisines; in the West, through immigrants, their corner shish-kebab shop and refined restaurants such as London’s Sofra.
IN THE world of winemaking there are those who are driven by fashion and those who know where they are going. Sergio Zenato is among the latter. The Zenato family has a long tradition in the Lombardy and Veneto regions of Italy, with cellars in San Benedetto di Lugana on Lake Garda.
Limassol boxing instructor Polis Potamitis is planning a solo trek across Africa on a motorbike
POLIS Potamitis looks just like any other Cypriot but behind his unremarkable exterior is a true adventurer; Cyprus’ own Phileas Fogg.
‘If I am sensitive to what is going on in the world today, I can’t paint pink flowers’
The Cyprus Mail is the only English-language daily newspaper published in Cyprus. It was established in 1945 and today, with its popular and widely-read website, the Cyprus Mail is among the most trusted news sites in Cyprus. The newspaper is not affiliated with any political parties and has always striven to maintain its independence. Over the past 70-plus years, the Cyprus Mail, with a small dedicated team, has covered momentous events in Cyprus’ modern history, chronicling the last gasps of British colonial rule, Cyprus’ truncated independence, the coup and Turkish invasion, and the decades of negotiations to stitch the divided island back together, plus a myriad of scandals, murders, and human interests stories that capture the island and its -people. Observers describe it as politically conservative.
