Small Talk

AMERICAN singer/songwriter Toni Childs will perform in Newcastle next month. The artist is known for hits Don't Walk Away and Stop Your Fussin. Childs emerges from an eight-year musical exile with her new album Keep The Faith. In the years between being diagnosed with Graves' disease (a thyroid disorder) and getting her music career back on track, Childs committed to a simpler lifestyle. She now resides in Hawaii on a 4.5-acre (1.8-hectare) property and enjoys organic farming. She will perform at ...

Water On Mars A Selling Opportunity

THE news from NASA is excellent: the Phoenix Mars mission has found water. Not only does this mean enterprising real estate agents have vast untouched acreage to advertise as water frontage (not to mention water views, and then water glimpses when those quarter-acre lots on the Martian arctic plains start going under the hammer), but the precious fluid itself can be used to enrich our lives back here on the home planet. We can see the slogans now: Mars water - it's out of this world. Marketers ...