Pokari Sweat

I think there are two people reading this LJ who might be able to help me with this one ... is Pokari Sweat suitable for vegans? Here is the label: http://pics.livejournal.com/purplecthulhu/pic/000057xx/g5

An appropriate mention of the C-word

Finally got around to making our Christmas cake - currently in the oven. I'm particularly pleased with the flourishes - freshly grated orange peel, blackstrap molasses, extra mixed spice - and I'm sure it will every bit as good as a real cake made by a real person! ;-)

Vowels for Physicists

Or, I could have done with learning this basic systematic phoneme chart for vowels when I was a teenager:

http://www.phonetics.ucla.edu/course/chapter1/vowels.html

(and the International Phonetic Alphabet).

Apparently, we lose our 'baby aptitude' for learning languages between the ages of c. 8 and c. 15. I wish someone had told me that, and helped me to become bilingual, before I dropped out of range.