"I propose for 10 and a half months of the year we have American Work Time, when we do our jobs and then, every August, we have American No Time".

Earlier this year, various people — including Donald Trump — started to wonder out loud if it would be a good idea to stick with Summer Time all year around. Every year when this topic comes up and it seems like a fairly harmless suggestion, but it is always met with considerable hostility.

Those who rise early say that, in fact, we would be much better off sticking with Winter Time all year round.

And then you have those who say that we should have Summer Time in the winter and then double Summer Time in the summer. This is what happened in the UK, during the war and every year the suggestion is still made.

But this argument seems to find little favor with some people. “No. We can’t have the clocks going even further forwards than they do now because then we’d be in the same time zone as the bloody Frogs.”

Someone once said to me that one day, somebody must have been out fishing and said “I’m a bit hungry, I think I’m going to eat an oyster”. And it must have been a bold man that first did so.

The thing about eating oysters is that there wasn't a first man who did it. We evolved into doing it. Kissing each other on each cheek - was first done by some old roué in France who said: "Come here my dear; let me show you my new discovery. Now, close your eyes..." and sWhat Does a Steak, and a Clean Office Have in Common?o kissing each other on each cheek was invented. Possibly.

Oysters are not my thing particularly. I love fish but just not oysters. When I order a seafood grill at The Lure in Camarillo, Laura, our favorite server knows without having to ask me, to substitute the oysters for scallops. As much as I don’t like oysters. It's not oysters that were the big foolish mouth-adventure for mankind; the real idiot was the first man to eat a well-done steak. We are so familiar and comfortable with cooked food; we can barely comprehend how strange it must have tasted.

Nobody has the faintest idea when the first steak was grilled; actually, a lot of people have faint ideas, and they range from 10,000 to 2.5m years ago. But imagine, all you have ever eaten is raw meat. Burnt meat must have been truly disgusting. Everything about it is alien. The temperature, the texture and the taste. Our palates are a combination of acquired instinct; poisons taste bitter, mother's milk is sweet and learnt cultural and aesthetic prejudice, like the Chinese don't drink milk, the Jewish don't eat pork, and everyone in peep-toe heels likes champagne apparently.

So, burnt meat won't have been an eureka moment, but the benefits of cooked meat aren't about aesthetics. Nicety follows necessity. If you roast your meat, it's easier and faster to eat. You can consume more, and this is all-important for little naked men who are competing with a host of predators and scavengers that come with integral butchery sets in their mouths or claws. Cooked meat allowed us to absorb the protein we needed to make big brains and come up with other good ideas after flame-grilled sirloin.

Besides terminal illnesses such as cancer, particularly in children, homelessness is one of the facts of life I detest the most. I understand that it must be very scary to find yourself with no friends or no family to turn to and nowhere to stay. I think often about how terrible that moment must be when you realize, for the first time, that you really have no bed that night. It sends a shiver down my spine.

My daughter really should have been born a Disney. She loves everything about Disney. Her first memory I’m sure is not of her mum or me, but of watching Elsa and Ana sing their hearts out in the bloody freezing cold. For her birthday each year, everything is usually Disney Princess themed. And I don’t mind, she really loves it and besides what parent doesn’t want to see their children so happy? There are far worse things in life than a Disney Princess.

I don’t want fancy food, I just want a Bacon Sandwich done the proper way

I used to work in Santa Monica, I worked in an office that had one of the most enviable views in the world of the Santa Monica Pier. Hundreds of thousands of people flock there each year from all over the world to look at something that I could just glance over my laptop at. Thousands and thousands of people also work there. And every day it was impossible to buy lunch.

Mother Nature Isn't an Easy One to Stop

According to experts, the unusually cold Southern California winter we have just experienced together with the wet spring have combined to create the perfect storm of misery.

If you live in the Conejo Valley or Malibu, or many other parts of Ventura County such as Camarillo in Southern California and particularly if you visit some of the area’s best parks such as the Conejo Canyons or Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park, you are most likely to have witnessed the massive blossom of desert wildflowers happening across the area, following the five-year drought broken by long overdue record winter rainfalls. 

The Super Bloom, as it has come to be known, has been making headlines as it travels from south to north, tracking with the warm spring weather. There are some fascinating satellite photos that show, side by side, just how landscape-affecting the Super Bloom is for the desert. The Super Bloom has even earned a modest hashtag following on Instagram. 

With the Super Bloom comes massive amounts of pollen. Now, whilst that is great for the bees, for me and many others, it’s as if a giant pepper bomb has been dropped on the entire area. What are all of those orange dots covering the mountains, you may ask? Those are wildflowers, also known as the bane of my existence.

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We are extremely proud of the attention to detail that our maids provide while cleaning your home, so we are happy to offer you a satisfaction guarantee with every cleaning service provided. This level of quality can be directly attributed to the extensive training that they go through during their courses in our Maid University. Every maid is specifically instructed on how to thoroughly clean every surface of your home. Our maids are bonded and insured, and they're going to happily free up hours of your personal time.