How could the wife, who wouldn't settle for a cottage, castle, monarchy and caesarship, settle for a Fisherman as a husband? - Wouldn't one expect that she should not settle for less than a Pilot who is also a Medical Doctor that knows his way around DIY & Hardware stores and can fix most common and some uncommon household appliances & general problems?  

this isn't a literary space

Book Notice:

Tales and translation: The Grimm tales from pan-Germanic narratives to shared international fairytales. By CAY DOLLERUP. (Benjamins translation library 30.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1999. Pp. xiv, 384. (Book Review) (Amazon)

The Living Wage for London, calculated by the Living Wage Unit, was first calculated at £6.70 in April last year.

The unit found that wages below £6.15 an hour were not enough to keep workers above the poverty line, partly as a result of London's high housing costs.

Workers need to be paid at least £7.05 an hour, the mayor says

BBC NEWS | England | London | Mayor urges higher minimum wage

Why all of a sudden Ken makes this headline? The living wage unit has already been calculated more than a year ago!

Is it out of respect for the minimum wage workers or out of fear that the latter might leave for a cheaper life elsewhere and leave the low paying jobs for Londoners that won't like to take them?

From the Great Fire of London in 1666 to the Olympic Games in 2012, the Museum of London is selling off slices of the city's history, and a little bit of its future too.

Staff at the museum hit upon the idea of the Great Sale of London as a solution to their fundraising problems.

Short of £4m for an £18m revamp bill, sponsors are invited to buy a year they believe is worth celebrating.

Their names will then be inscribed against a timeline on a plaque to be displayed in the museum.

But it seems history comes at a price. Each year from 1666 to 1899 costs £5,000, and is mainly targeted at corporate sponsors.

Those with a little less cash will have to wait until 16 November when bidding begins in an online auction for the 20th and 21st Centuries.

BBC NEWS | England | London | For sale: A piece of London's past

History is a thing of the past, and Italy is a thing of the pasta (or vice versa),

History indeed comes at a price, and it doesn't take the same route twice.

There are times when you think, and there are times when you're not,

and the actions you take at present, make tomorrow's knots.

Wisdom is a thing that can't be bought, only gained,

though some things might always stay unexplained.

To buy a piece of history, you may very well may,

To make the history that others may buy tomorrow, on that you have to start working today!

Couples say they often get together in romantic museums Visitors to Britain's museums are not only discovering art and culture, but love too, according to a survey. Museum and gallery-goers voted London's Victoria and Albert as the most romantic venue, in the survey published for Museums and Galleries Month. Nearly a fifth of 500 respondents said they had fallen in love while in a museum or gallery. Other favourites included the National Portrait Gallery, Tate St Ives and the Tower of London.   Virginia Tandy, Director of Manchester Art Gallery and co-chair of Museums and Galleries Month 2006, said galleries and museums had a "special romantic atmosphere".

BBC NEWS | UK | UK's museums have pulling power

London ('s Galleries) makes  :), who would imagine

I wonder if they included London's beautiful parks and heaths in the survey (Hyde Park, Regent's Park, Hamstead Heath).