- give your teenager a seriously made cookbook for his birthday?
I mean, a real one, with pictures and indications for Coque au Vin etc.? Not one for children cooking Christmas cookies with their nanny. A real one!
Let him or her get a list for the ingredients, give them the cash, send them off and leave the kitchen, hanging around the house for urgencies. But make sure to negotiate a "cleaning up agreement", in short a "CUA" beforehand. Otherwise the experience will be short lived and the chap retire again in his room and talk to his computer.
-get out and do some serious star-gazing - alone, with your partner or with the kids?
This is easy, you just need a cloudless night, preferably not a full moon ( won´t see anything then), a Star-Chart ( to be bought on the internet or in a good bookshop) a small latern and a good anorak, if it is cold outside.
Stargazing is a healthy thing, as it puts everything back into perspective and you learn something too. Just imagine one pointing quite casually to the sky and mentioning, "Oh, Orion is here". Huge astonishment guaranteed.
-get you and your family a serious horoscope made by an expert ( check them out - there are so many charlatans out there, just wanting to predict/explain their honorar per hour)?
It is amazing - even such and old Cartesian like me is sometimes in awe of the coincidence of some information coming up... And, once an old Ambassadress told me, if you do it for your children/husband/mom/friend and have a good look at it, it might, sometimes help you understand how the other person might/does/can/will "function".
Ok, we are all individuals, but there must be something in it - otherwise all the Egyptians, the Babylonians, Wallenstein and Christian Dior would have been all wrong. Ok, they are dead, but so what?
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