A typical Sri Lankan hearth used to cook all the food in the household.

Now firewood is used less to do the cooking. LP gas has replaced it in most households. The days of  high pressure stoves and kerosene cookers are also gone.

AN INSPIRING CLIP MUST WATCH

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Inspiring Clip . . . A Must See

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TT player without hands !

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  Two minutes worth watching

Great indeed

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A trip in Sri Lanka with friends.

The 'Udarata Menike' at Pathana.

Devon falls at Pathana.

A bridal party at the Gardens, Nuwara Eliya.

Rest House, Ella/

Ravanella waterfalls, Ella.

Buddha statue, Maligawila.

Wild elephants, Udawalawe.

A dancing pea-cock, Udawalawe.

Sunset seen from the Udawalawe dam.

Feeding the orphan elephants, Udawalawe.

Dinner at the 'Centaurian Hotel', Embilipitiya. Wignaraja and Buddhika Kaluarachchi with Mick, Peter and David.

A trip made with Wignaraja, Buddhika Kaluarachche and Wigna's Australian doctor friends 'Mick', Peter and David. This trip took three days. From Colombo to Nuwara Eliya and night rest at Ella Rest House on the 18th May 2014. Down to Wellawaya passing Rawanella watrerfalls on the 19th going onto Maligawila to see the Buddha statue predating the Aukana statue and carved in the 7th Century AD. Going into the Udawalawe National Park to see it's wild life. Further on to see the orphan elephants being fed and night rest at the Centaures Hotel, Embilipitiya. The next day the 20th we were on the road to Rathnapura to buy jem-studded jewellery and back to Avissawella and Colombo. It was a journey with fun and rollicking laughter.

Quiz for Bright People

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There are only nine questions.
This is a quiz for people who know everything! 
I found out in a hurry that I didn’t. These are not trick questions. 
They are straight questions with straight answers. 

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants

know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward? 

3 Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on their own for several

growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year.

What are the only two perennial vegetables? 

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside? 

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear

inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine;

it hasn’t 't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle? 

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw ' and

they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name

at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned,

processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning

with the letter 'S. '



Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants

know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing.

2. North American landmark constantly moving backward: Niagara Falls..

The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of

the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several

growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the

bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small,

and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the

entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped

off at the stems. 

6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses. 

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed,

cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S ':

Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,

stockings, stilts. 

PLEASE DO YOUR PART; Today is National Mental Health Day. You can

do your part by remembering to send this e-mail to at least one genius challenged person.

Okay, my job's done!

Don't send it back to me. I've already flunked it once

INTERESTING MESSAGE FOR US ALL TO TAKE ON BOARD

email from Kamalini Kanapathippillai A question was posed to Dalai Lama.. "What is the thing about humanity that surprises You the Most" ? His answer was as follows:"Man" - Because He sacrifices His HEALTH in order to Make Money. - Then He Sacrifices His MONEY to Recuperate His HEALTH. - And Then He is SO ANXIOUS about THE FUTURE that HE DOES NOT ENJOY THE PRESENT - And as a Result He does NOT Live in the PRESENT or the FUTURE. - And He LIVES AS IF HE IS NEVER GOING TO DIE, - and Then He DIES Having NEVER REALLY LIVED.”

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