Richard Roman's Blog – January 2012 Archive (7)

Just some holy people I have come across recently:

Dennis the Abbott

Mahatma Jack

Steve "the seer" Mellow

The Dalai Richard (or as some people say: "The Dalai Dick"

Are there any other holy people out there?

An angry crowd shouted and threw eggs at Apple's Beijing flagship store after it failed to open on schedule on Friday to sell the popular new iPhone 4S model.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9011987/Angry-mob-pelts-eggs-at-Apple-store-in-China-over-iPhone-4S-release.html…

When I get home later this month my first breakfast will include:

2 rashers unsmoked danish back  bacon, a good sized pork sausage, 2 fried eggs (easy over), button mushrooms, a half grilled tomato, 2 pieces of fried black pudding and fried bread. All washed down with a good mug of tea (with milk and sugar) - also English mustard for the sausage.

All followed with hot butterd toast and marmalade

here are some replies from the guardian on this most…

The Changchun 2012 Ice and Snow Festival was grandly opened at Jingyuetan National Forest Park on Monday morning of January 2, 2012.

This year marks the 15th session of the Ice and Snow Festival, and the 10th anniversary for the settlement of Vasaloppet in Changchun. 

The theme of the festival is “Passionate Vasaloppet, Attractive Changchun”. In line with “tour around Changchun, have fun on weekends” and “watch the Winter Games, travel around Jilin Province…

 The 28th International Harbin Ice and Snow Festival held in Harbin, in China's northern Heilongjiang province. The annual three-month long festival will have its opening ceremony on 5 January 2012

Well worth a visit if you have never been - Go to the ice festival in the evening and the snow festival the following morning - and then find a good Russian restaurant to warm up!

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THE Trappist Abbey of St Sixtus of Westvleteren has little to offer those wishing to gawp at ecclesiastical architecture. The 19th-century buildings—squat, brick and functional—sit on a quiet country lane amid flat farmland, close to Belgium’s border with France. Yet the vast visitors’ car park is a clue that some people nevertheless consider the abbey worth a trip. For beer lovers, St Sixtus is a place of pilgrimage.

The abbey and its most famous brew, Westvleteren 12—a dark, strong…