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    Welcome 

    by
    JPJHermes
    Published on 23rd May 2010 06:55 AM  Number of Views: 291 




    Welcome to the new and even better format of Global Granary.

    First and foremost I would like to thank our super web designer, James Morton, you did a brilliant job as always.

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    Our new format is so much more and would continue to get better. More changes and updates are forthcoming, we'll keep you posted - just watch this space.

    Meanwhile please familiarise yourselves with the working of this new website by reading the FAQ.

    Thank you.

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    JPJHermes
    Published on 30th May 2010 05:06 PM

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    Apples 

    by
    JPJHermes
    Published on 4th September 2010 05:26 PM
    Categories:
    1. Health & Beauty

    Saying about apples:

    An apple a day keeps the doctors away.

    Language & Dialects 

    by
    JPJHermes
    Published on 3rd September 2010 11:34 AM
    Categories:
    1. Quotes

    England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
    -George Bernard Shaw

    Smoking and Drinking 

    by
    JPJHermes
    Published on 3rd September 2010 11:27 AM
    Categories:
    1. Food & Drink
    2. Current Event

    News of the Week
    For society’s sake, sin...
    “Please smoke and drink more,” Russia’s finance minister Alexei Kudrin urged citizens this week, explaining that higher consumption would lift tax revenues for spending on social services. “If you smoke a pack of cigarettes, that means you are giving more to help solve social problems such as boosting demographics, developing other social services and upholding birth rates,” Kudrin said. “People should understand: those who drink, those who smoke are doing more to help the state.”
    Alcohol and cigarette consumption are already extremely high in Russia, where 65% of men smoke and even the average Russian consumes 18 litres of alcohol, mainly vodka, a year. Alcohol kills around 500,000 Russians each year, especially men, whose life expectancy is lower than it is in Bangladesh or Honduras. As the Russian saying goes: “There’s no such thing as an ugly woman. But there is such a thing as too little vodka.”






    Source: Artemis/Hunter's Tails

    Robert Recorde 

    by
    JPJHermes
    Published on 30th August 2010 10:47 PM
    Categories:
    1. History

    This year is the 500th anniversary of Robert Recorde's birthday; a little known Welshman. But did you know that Recorde invented the equals sign in 1557. Prior to the usage of =, people used to finish sums by writing AE from the Latin word aegualls.

    Rocorde was a genuis, he was only 15 when he went to study in Oxford.

    Recorde was also a personal physician to Edward VI, was also a mining surveyor a teacher and for a while the Royal Mint.

    FloRoE First Photos 

    by
    JPJHermes
    Published on 28th August 2010 05:09 PM
    Categories:
    1. Current Event

    First pictures of PM's new baby
    Saturday, August 28 02:21 pm



    The love between father and baby daughter is there for all to see in the first images of David and Samantha Cameron's four-day-old daughter.

    The pictures feature Florence Rose Endellion Cameron wrapped in a white blanket and being cradled and kissed by the Prime Minister.

    Mrs Cameron and the baby, both said to be doing well, left hospital on Friday and the family are continuing their holiday in Cornwall. It is not clear when they will return to London.

    Before Tuesday's surprise early birth Mr Cameron had been expected to return to work after the weekend, but he is now thought to be planning some additional time off as paternity leave.

    The Camerons evaded waiting photographers as they left the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro on Friday, exiting its maternity wing by a back door before being driven away in a people carrier with blacked-out windows.

    The baby, born weighing 6lb 1oz, was due next month, but caught the family by surprise while they were on holiday in Cornwall.

    Speaking outside the hospital on Tuesday, Mr Cameron described her as an "unbelievably beautiful girl".

    Her middle name, Endellion, refers to the village of St Endellion on the north Cornish coast, near where the Camerons were staying.

    Christine Rashleigh, director of nursing, midwifery and allied health professions at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, said the length of Mrs Cameron's stay - three nights - was "perfectly normal" after a Caesarean section.

    Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said on Friday that that he would "just carry on holding the fort" until Mr Cameron returned to work.

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    What a beautiful little baby! awwwwwwww

    Congratulations Prime Minister and Mrs Cameron!