The river Thames

The river Thames is a river of the south of England. It is born in elcondado of Gloucestershire, Kemble's locality, then constant for Oxford, Wallingford, Reading, Henley-on-Thames, Marlow, Maidenhead, Eton, Windsor and London and ends in the sea of the North. It possesses islands along the river they are known like ait, for example.
During the Pleistocene, the primitive river Thames was flowing from Wales up to Clacton-on-Sea, crossing what at present is the North Sea to end up by being a tributary of the Rhine. This course was blocked by a mass of ice during the Age of Ice. The river turned aside up to taking his current course, coming up to the one that is today the city of London.
During the XVIth and XVIIth century, the river was one of the principal means of transport between London and Westminster. From the 19th century the river started contaminating. At the end of this century until middle of the 20th century, a massive cleanliness of the Thames was realized. At present it is one of the cleanest rivers of those who flow across a great city.
His length is 346 km.
This one is a documentary about the river Thames:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tlKvPCM_FI

The British Museum

                                                                                                                                                                                             The British Museum is a museun in London dedicated to human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. The British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building.

Since 2002 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor.

System of education

The state organism responsible for the education in general up to the age of 19, in the United Kingdom it is the Department of the Infancy, Schools and Families, which controls directly the state schools in England.

Financed across the state taxes, in the schools there is attended approximately 93 % of the English students. There is a minority of schools of faith, the majority of the Church of England or of the Catholic Church. About 7 % of the English students is present at private schools, witch are financed by private sources. The produre are supervised by the regular inspections of the schools financed by the Office of Procedure of Education and of the school deprived by the Inspection of Independent Schools.
The procedure are supervised by the regular inspestions of the schools financed by the Office of Procedure of Education and of the schools deprived by the Inspection of Independent Schools.

After finishing the compulsory education, the pupils take GCSE's examination. About this point the people can decide if to continue with the education and to be present at a center of vocational training. Normally of the students they enter the University from 18 years to study a career. 

There are more than 90 state universities financed in England, which they are supervised by the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills.

Pride of Britain award winners

Pride of Britain award winners: Amazing real-life heroes outshine the celebrities

As her X Factor idols came on the Pride of Britain stage to meet her, Ramona was overcome with emotion as her heroism was highlighted

Heroine Ramona Gibbs did not think twice when she saw an out-of-control car hurtling towards her little sister Trixie.

With just seconds to spare, she pushed her out of the way and took the full brunt of the impact herself, causing devastating injuries.

But last night, as her X Factor idols came on the Pride of Britain stage to meet her, Ramona was overcome with emotion as the full extent of her heroism was laid bare for the country to see.

As she received her Child of Courage award the emotional seven-year-old burst into tears on stage surrounded by judges Tulisa, Gary Barlow, Louis Walsh and Nicole Scherzinger.

Flanked by her sister, cute Ramona clung on to her favourite judge Tulisa’s hand to receive her awards.

Through her tears, she said: “It’s been brilliant meeting Tulisa from X Factor. Tonight has been so exciting.”

Last July Ramona reacted in a flash when a Land Rover accidentally mounted the kerb and sped towards her and Trixie, then aged three, as they played outside their home.

Without Ramona’s intervention Trixie would have almost certainly have been killed, medics said.

Her heroics only became clear in hospital when Trixie – who escaped with only a scratch – complained: “Mum, Ramona pushed me.”

After being crushed by the car she spent 16 days in hospital and endured five operations.

Doctors treated her for liver and lung damage, a broken leg and rib, bruised pelvis and internal bleeding.

But despite the pain she has suffered, Ramona, of Bristol, says it is all worth it. “I really like her. She’s my best sister ever,” she grinned.

Mum Sally, 44, gushed: “I think Ramona’s an amazing girl. It was days later when we discovered what really happened. I’m so proud of my girls.”

Shepherd's Pie

Now, we will learn how to cook a tipical delicious english recipe: the Sheperd's Pie.

The Shepherd's pie is a traditional British dish consisting of a layer of minced lamb and covered with mashed potato and optionally a layer of cheese. The traditionally consists minced lamb (hence Shepherd) but many people prefer the beef.  The recipe we will explain serves four people:

Ingredients:

- 1kg of Lamb minced meat (or Beef). 
- Half an Onion. 
- Garlic.  
- a Carrot.
- 25 cl. Red Wine.

- 2 boiled Potatoes.
- 2 spoons of Butter.
- 50 cl. of Fresh Milk. 

Preperation:

First, to make the mash, heat 50 cl. of Fresh Milk and 2 spoons of Butter.  Then, add the two mashed potatoes and remove it until it turns a soft potato mash.   Cool it down to room temperature. 

Then chop finely an half Onion and add it to a frying pan with some heated oil and some garlic; then slice a carrot and add it too. When it turns golden, you can add the minced Lamb.   Fry it for some minutes with the red wine. 

To assemble the pie put in the bowl a layer of meat first, then a layer of mash, meat layer and finally, mash layer.   The reason why we mix the Potatoes Mash with milk and butter is for lighthen it  and for the meat to not sinking on it.  This is the most critical phase of the assembling of the cake, so BE CAREFUL. 

Then, make slits on the last mash layer to make it crispy and cover it with some shreded cheese.  Bake it for 150º C  for an hour or until it turns golden.

We hope you enjoy this delicious recipe.

The Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through the central parts of the English city of London, from Sunday, 2 September to Wednesday, 5 September 1666. The fire gutted the medieval City of London inside the old Roman City Wall. It threatened, but did not reach, the aristocratic district of Westminster, Charles //'s Palace of Whitehall, and most of the suburban slums. It consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St. Paul's Cathedral and most of the buildings of the City authorities. It is estimated to have destroyed the homes of 70,000 of the City's 80,000 inhabitants.
The Great Fire started at the bakery of Thomas Farriner (or Farynor) on Pudding Lane, shortly after midnight on Sunday, 2 September, and spread rapidly west across the City of London. The use of the major firefighting technique of the time, the creation of firebreaks by means of demolition, was critically delayed owing to the indecisiveness of the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Thomas Bloodworth. By the time large-scale demolitions were ordered on Sunday night, the wind had already fanned the bakery fire into a firestorm which defeated such measures.

HALLOWEEN 2012







       Every 31st of October, kids of all parts of England go from home to home saying "Trick or Treat?" and waiting for some candy. We enjoy this festivity and it's becoming an international party

      Yes, but... Whatis it's origin?
 
This party The word Halloween was first used in the 16th century and represents a Scottish variant of the fuller All Hallows' Even ('evening'), that is, the night before

All Hallows' Day.   Although the phrase All Hallows' is found in Old English.  The origin is sat on the pagan festivity of the end of summer, also linked to the Saint night.  People thought that every 31st of October an 24 hour portal is opened for the dead, to became alive.   They made Jack o' Lanterns, that are pumkpins with cutted mouths and eyes and a candle inside. They use this spooky lanterns for scaring the ghosts and other spirits. Today, we also use this pumpkins and disguise for enjoy an GREAT NIGHT.

Monsters at Loch Ness

   

In the 7th century, the first guesses about a sea monster in Loch ness; a monk called Adomán wroted this quotes on a codex named  Life of St. Columba.  He said that Columba saw how a "sea monster" catched a man and gragged him to the bottom of the lake. All that he could do was to take the corpse out of water.    Hearing this, Columba stunned the Picts by sending his follower Luigne moccu Min to swim across the river. The beast came after him, but Columba made the sign of the cross and commanded: "Go no further. Do not touch the man. Go back at once." The beast immediately halted as if it had been "pulled back with ropes" and fled in terror, and both Columba's men and the pagan Picts praised God for the miracleThe oldest manuscript relating to this story was put online in 2012.       Believers in the Loch Ness Monster often point to this story, which notably takes place on the River Ness rather than the loch itself, as evidence for the creature's existence as early as the 6th century.        Modern interest in the monster was sparked by a sighting on 22 July 1933, when George Spicer and his wife saw 'a most extraordinary form of animal' cross the road in front of their car.
This latest version is the most suspectful of all; even so, a lot of tourists came every year to the Loch Ness to get informed about this special monster who even is attractive to much more people than suspected.