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Consultant : A man, who borrows your watch, tells you time and then sends you a bill. Literature : The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. Humour : Anything that makes you laugh but the finest sort draws a tear along with the laugh. Critic : A legless man who teaches running. Diplomat : A person who tells you to go to hell, in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. Kindness : A language which the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear. Conference : A gathering of important persons who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. Banker : A fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Economist : An expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn’t happen today. Statistician : Someone who brings a fake bomb on a plane, because that decreases the chances that there will be another bomb on the p

Radish – French word ‘radis’ modified form of a word meaning ‘wart’. Lettuce – Latin word ‘lactuca’ meaning milk-giving plant. Corn – Saxon word ‘corn’ meaning ‘worn-down particle’. Cabbage – French word ‘caboche’ meaning head. Mushroom – French origin, first cultivated in beds of mousse (moss). Pumpkin – French word, derived from a Greek word meaning ‘cooked by the sun’. Turnip – French origin, used for feeding cattle. Cauliflower – French word ‘cole florie’, meaning flowering cabbage. Potato – Spanish word ‘patata’, name of an island in Haiti. Tomato – Mexican word ‘tomatl’

Basking in the sunshine, I am wondering whether the formatting of this post, being written on a mobile, would appear right on monitors. Basking in the sunshine, I am wondering when the electricity will be back online; because I have to update and print my CV. I am watching someone collect Cherospondias axillaris [ lapsi ] right now in the middle of the forest and appreciating the GPRS service of Spice Nepal. Writing using a handheld device without a QWERTY keyboard is obviously not convenient, but updating this post from the middle of the forest is definitely amazing.