| Recycling and Deifying Donkey Dung in Israel | - 30th December, 2008 |
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The Christmas season in Europe is often silly season for the world’s media outlets, when they outdo each other to find the strangest, weirdest and oddball news story to give people an extra sparkle to their celebrations.
Strange shaped vegetables, or bagels that bleed are the sort of stories that crop up. Despite the crisis in [...]
| The Wisdom of Donkeys | - 29th December, 2008 |
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Live life at a donkey’s pace
Terry Peters, North Shore News
Published: Friday, December 26, 2008
- The Wisdom of Donkeys, by Andy Merrifield, Greystone Books, 247 pages, $22.95.
There are few other domesticated animals that we ever interact with who move as slowly as a donkey. They stubbornly stride through the world at their own pace and as author [...]
| Road to freedom is paved with dead donkeys | - 29th December, 2008 |
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From The Times
December 29, 2008
Road to freedom is paved with dead donkeys
Zimbabwe Notebook
Jan Raath
This miserable road to freedom is lined with the carcases of dead donkeys. For about 100km before the Beitbridge border post, there are scores of them, smashed by the roaring 40-ton juggernauts that thunder up and down the road from South [...]
| Donkey helps Santa deliver gifts | - 27th December, 2008 |
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Donkey helps Santa deliver gifts
A donkey hired by an isolated village to haul groceries up an impassable hill was used for a vital new role – delivering local children’s Christmas presents.
Teddy the donkey was bought by residents in Chalford, Gloucestershire, this summer to reach homes along a steep 200-yard hill where no van would go.
This [...]
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