Tips tips all the way..

In this section is going to share with you lots of tips for daily everyday living.  I am taking Information from various websites on the internet and also from many magazines that I have read over the years.. Will try and post pictures wherever possible.  Hope some will be of use to you..

Store bed linen sets inside one of their own pillow cases and there will be no more hunting through piles of linen for a match.

Even out small scratches from your favourite CD or DVD with a dry cloth and some toothpaste.

Rubbing walnut over scratches in your furniture disguises scratches.

Loop your leggins on hangers and store them in cupboards instead of bundling them and having a time searching for them.. You can group the colours and make them look pretty like this..  Don't forget you can store all your dupattas and stoles in the same manner also.. 

Place mince meat in a large ziplock bag and flatten it out evenly, then separate the portions evenly using a chopstick or skewer and freeze.  When you want to use the mince, simply break off, you need and put the rest back in the freezer.

A cute way to make a boiled egg look more interesting and full of love.

Table salt can be used in various ways other than to add taste to our food. 

• add a cup of salt to the water first couple of times you wash new colour running fabric and the colour will set and fabric will remain brighter for a longer period.
• to rest an egg's freshness, add a teaspoon of salt to one cup of water then float the egg in that water.  A fresh egg will sink but an old one will float.
• add a teaspoon of salt to the water before boiling eggs and they will turn our perfectly.
• add wrinkled apples to mildly salted water and watch the wrinkles disappear.
• salt with lemon juice mixed together will remove mildew stains.

To get the most juice out of lemons, first bring them to room temperature after you take them out of your storage and then roll them under your palm against the kitchen top till it gets nice and soft.  Now cut and squeeze the lemon. You will be surprised how much more juice you can actually get following this method.

Rub a slice of raw potato to your fingers and rinse with cold water and watch the food stains disappear in seconds.

PICTURES MY VERY OWN MANGO TREE (2010)

Flowers in full bloom in Dec 2009

A close up of a healthy bunch of flowers

From flower to fruit - tiny mangoes looking like serial bulbs

My mango tree which was full of mangoes in April 2010

Close up of the green mango bunch

Remains of a mango after a squirrel had nibbled at it

A parrot feasting on a juicy almost ripe mango

The green mangoes are hand plucked from the tree

The green mangoes are then washed and put on newspaper to dry

after which they are put in a bag to ripen

the burst of yellow when it is ripe

Juicy mangoes ready for distribution to relatives and friends

This heap is ready for the neighbour

Close up of the tasty & juicy mango

Curiosity killed the cat

A curious kitten.

Curiosity killed the cat is a proverb used to warn against being too curious lest one come to harm. A less frequent rejoinder to 'curiosity killed the cat' is 'satisfaction brought it back'.

The earliest printed reference to the origin of this proverb is attributed to the British playwright Ben Jonson in his 1598 play, Every Man in His Humour, which was performed first by William Shakespeare.

...Helter skelter, hang sorrow, care will kill a cat, up-tails all, and a pox on the hangman.

In this instance, "care" was defined as "worry" or "sorrow."

Shakespeare used a similar quote in his circa 1599 play, Much Ado About Nothing:

Curiosity killed the cat means:

Mind your own business. Being nosy and getting yourself involved in unnecessary things can lead to problems.

• The proverb remained the same until at least 1898. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer included this definition in his Dictionary of Phrase and Fable:

“	What, courage man! what though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.	”

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Care killed the Cat. It is said that "a cat has nine lives," yet care would wear them all out.

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• The origin of the modern variation is unknown.

• The earliest known printed reference to the actual phrase is found in the 1902 edition of Proverbs Maxims and Phrases, by John Hendricks Bechtel. On page 100, the phrase "Curiosity killed the cat" is the lone entry under the topical heading Curiosity.

• An early reference that suggests knowledge of the proverb had become widespread is O. Henry's short story Schools and Schools from 1909:

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Curiosity can do more things than kill a cat; and if emotions, well recognized as feminine, are inimical to feline life, then jealousy would soon leave the whole world catless.

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• A later printed reference to the actual phrase occurred in The Washington Post on 4 March 1916 (page 6):

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CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT. Four Departments of New York City Government Summoned to Rescue Feline. From the New York World. Curiosity, as you may recall— On the fifth floor of the apartment house at 203 West 130th street lives Miss Mable Godfrey. When she came to the house about seven months ago she brought Blackie, a cat of several years' experience of life. The cat seldom left the apartment. He was a hearth cat, not a fence cat, and did not dearly love to sing. In other respects he was normal and hence curious. Last Tuesday afternoon when Miss Godfrey was out Blackie skipped into the grate fireplace in a rear room. He had done this many times before. But he had not climbed up the flue to the chimney. This he did Tuesday. Blackie there remained, perched on the top of the screen separating the apartment flue from the main chimney, crying for assistance. Miss Godfrey, returning, tried to induce her pet to come down. If you are experienced in felinity, you know that Blackie didn't come down. On Wednesday the cat, curiosity unsatisfied, tried to climb higher—and fell to the first floor. His cries could still be heard by Miss Godfrey; who, to effect Blackie's rescue, communicated with the following departments: 1. Police department. 2. Fire department. 3. Health department. 4. Building department. 5. Washington Heights court. Among them they lowered a rope to Blackie. But it availed neither the cat nor them anything. Thursday morning, just before noon, a plumber opened the rear wall back of the chimney. Blackie was taken out. His fall had injured his back. Ten minutes later Blackie died.

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• The proverb, though, has been widely attributed to Eugene O'Neill who included the variation, "Curiosity killed a cat!" in his play Diff'rent from 1920:

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BENNY—(with a wink) Curiosity killed a cat! Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no lies. Now where did I get all this information from (cross my heart, it is from Wikipedia) and why am I posting it here in my blog? Well as the saying goes "Curiosity Killed the Cat", I have been curious about blogging for the last couple of years but did not have to guts to explore and create my own blog.  Temptation finally got the better of me and here I am posting my first blog - wondering whether I will get killed like the cat (am I a cat - well that's what boys term girls right??) because of my curiosity or will I succeed in this web-world of blogging. Maybe that is the reason I decided to deal with "Curiosity and the Cat"..I really don't know what my contribution is going to be here, because, I love to draw - it can be anything like kolams, rangolis, just freehand drawing, portraits, not that I am a trained artist, I just dabble whenever I get a chance, or whether I am going to write a story?? or just my experience on something or........ Let's just wait and see what I am able to dig out from inside me and put forth to this world. Hope it is worth visiting and enjoying :) Signing off from here... Judy