Cooking Corner

Baked Orange chicken 

Ingredients 

750 grs boneless chicken 

1 tsp salt

2 tbsp vegetable oil

Orange sauce

1 ½ tbsp cornflour 

¼ cup cold water 2 tsp orange zest … Continue Reading

An excellent idea

The days of being forced to listen to endless streams of call centre’s muzac will be over for Spaniards.

The Spanish Cabinet has approved a draft law imposing a waiting time limit of three minutes. 

The fines will be up to 10,000 Euros for companies which fail to answer within the three minutes, rising to 100,000 Euros for repeat offenders or if a vulnerable person is affected.

The Law will apply to all utility companies regardless so of their size and firms with more than 250 employees of whose annual revenue is greater than fifty million Euros. 

A survey in Britain last year found that 44% of people were forced to wait between five and twenty minutes for their call to be answered. 

Aust‘s new ministers

Viewed closely, the new Australian government’s ministerial allocation evokes a kind of icebreaker game in which ministers are assigned to look after the Australians about which they know least. 

Madeleine King, the new minister for Northern Australia, lives in Perth. 

Anne Aly, who knows a lot about multiculturalism and indeed has lived it deeply, is now the Minister for Early Childhood Education.

While Anika Wells, who has three kids under five, is the Minister for Aged Care.

 The Multicultural Affairs Minister is a white guy, as indeed have been the last TEN ministers for multicultural affairs.

Aligning it Exactly Right

A state-of-the-art Wheel Alignment Machine, the Hunter Proline 2, imported from the USA last September, is now in use at bp2go Martinborough Automotive.

“Most of the big tyre companies now have equivalent equipment,” says Matt Fenwick.  We are approved fitters of leading brands; Maxxis, Continental, Hankook and Michelin tyres so it made sense to purchase the equipment.”

“This model is precise and just so easy to use.”    … Continue Reading