everything Is connected

In this Ted Radio hour on NPR, TED speakers explain how everything in nature is connected, and how we can restore its delicate balance. It's brilliant and mind blowing and beautiful.

Recipe: Elederflower Champagne

Ingredients:
~30 elderflower heads (in full bloom - but don't strip a tree of all the flowers)
2kg natural sugar
4 litres of hot water
2 litres of cold water
Juice and zest of 4 lemons
1-2 tablespoons of white wine vinegar
A pinch of dried yeast

Method:
1. Put the hot water and sugar into a large container (a preserving pan or spotlessly clean bucket is good) and stir until the sugar dissolves, then top up with cold water to 6 litres.
2. Add the lemon juice and zest, the vinegar and the flower heads and stir gently.
3. Cover with a clean muslin and leave to ferment in a cool, airy place for a couple of days. Take a look at the brew at this point, and if it’s not becoming a little foamy and obviously beginning to ferment, add a pinch of yeast.
4. Leave the mixture to ferment, again covered with muslin, for a further four to five days. Strain the liquid through a sieve lined with muslin and decant into sterilised glass bottles.
5. Seal and leave to ferment in the bottles for a further eight days before serving, chilled.

From Emma Bradshaw as read out by Cerys Matthews on BBC6 Music on Sunday. 

Yoga with Chris Evans

My teacher, Ruth White, was asked to be on the Chris Evans morning show on BB2 Radio 2 this week...looks like he gave the postures a good go...

You can hear Ruth on iPlayer here (it's at the 2hrs, 10min mark). Its very funny!
My favorite quote from Chris Evans...
'i do believe photographs were taken during that item, i will pay good money for them not to be posted anywhere." hehe...