Month: April 2012

Our beautiful and elegant pieces of furniture and unique gift items are made from Railway Sleeper Wood – cut over a century ago to be used as railway “ties” during the opening of the vast interiors of Asia and Africa – the era of the great steam engine. The most exotic woods such as Burma…

THE BASIC LAWS OF HUMAN STUPIDITY by Carlo M. Cipolla illustrations by James Donnelly http://www.cantrip.org/stupidity.html?seenIEPage=1 The first basic law of human stupidity asserts without ambiguity that: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. At first, the statement sounds trivial, vague and horribly ungenerous. Closer scrutiny will however reveal its realistic…