Here is Part 2 of Paris in Pictures. We hope you enjoy. From top to bottom: Laduree, an excellent cake shop and restaurant. Try their famous macaroons. The Eiffel Tower, the view from half way up and then the view from the top. Side View of Notre Dame, from the front, a gargoyle, the view from the top and the view from inside. Part 1 is here.
Nothing is worse than a break up, and nothing heals better than music; so here it is: 20 Top Break Up Songs to help you get over that loser. No matter if you are sad or angry. Enjoy.
Bob Dylan – If You See Her, Say Hello
Pretty much THE break up song. The lyrics below are highlights but the entire song is a highlight. Don’t be embarrassed to listen to the song on repeat for, oh, a entire day.
“She may think I have forgotten her, don’t tell her it isn’t so.”
“Although our separation pierces to the heart, she still lives inside of me we have never be apart.”
There is also an alternative version with the lyrcis: “Although the separation pierces to the bone, you are better off with someone else, and I am better off alone.”
Alanis Morissette- You Oughta Know
“You told me you would hold me until you die, until you die, but you’re still alive”
Cee Lo Green – Forget You
“I guess the change in my pocket just wasn’t enough, I’m like, forget you and forget her too.” Also has the more risque, and satisfying F**k you version for when you are REALLY upset.
Adele – Someone Like You
“I heard that you settled down, that you found a girl and you’re married now. I heard that all your dreams came true. I guess she gave you things I didn’t give to you.”
“Never mind I will find someone like you, I wish nothing but the best for you two, don’t forget me I beg, I will remember you said; sometime it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead.”
“Yesterday was the time of our lives.”
Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive
“Weren’t you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbye? Did you think I’d crumble, did you think I would lie down and die? Oh no, not I, I will survive.”
“And now you see me, someone new, I’m not that chained up little person who is still in love with you.”
Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man
“Too young, too dumb to realise that I should have bought you flowers and held your hand, Should have gave you all my hours when I had the chance, taken you to every party because all you wanted to do was dance, now my baby is dancing but she’s dancing with another man.”
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone
“Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone, it’s not warm when she’s away…only darkness everyday.”
Bon Iver – Skinny Love
“Come on skinny love just last the year, pour a little salt, we were never here. My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my
Staring at the sink of blood and crushed veneer.”
“Told you to be patient, I told you to be fine, I told you to be balanced, I told you to be kind, In the morning I’ll be with you, But it will be a different “kind”, I’ll be holding all the tickets, And you’ll be owning all the fines
GOTYE (feat. Kimbra) – Someone That I Used To Know
“Told myself you were right for me, but felt so lonely in your company.”
“But you didn’t have to cut me off
Make out like it never happened and that we were nothing
And I don’t even need your love
But you treat me like a stranger and that feels so rough
No you didn’t have to stoop so low
Have your friends collect your records and then change your number
I guess that I don’t need that though
Now you’re just somebody that I used to know”
Green Day – Whatshername.
“Seems that she disappeared without a trace, did she ever marry ol’ whatshisface?, I made a point to burn all of the photographs, she went away and then I took a different path, I remember the face but I can’t recall the name, and now I wonder how whatsherface has been.”
“It feels like forever ago.’
Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
This songs starts off with a broken-hearted sigh. So perfectly done.
“And now I hear you found somebody new and that I never meant that much to you. To hear that tears me up inside and to see you cuts me like a knife.”
Amy Winehouse – Love is a Losing Game.
“Love is a losing game, Why do I wish I never played, Oh what a mess we made, And now the final frame, Love is a losing game.”
“Though I’m rather blind, Love is a fate resigned, Memories mar my mind”
The Wreckers – Leave the Pieces. A favourite of Nashville actress Hayden Panettiere
“It’s alright, I’ll be fine, Don’t worry about this heart of mine, Just take your love and hit the road, there is nothing you can do or say, you’re going to break my heart anyway, so just leave the pieces when you go”
“Don’t concern yourself with this mess you left for me, I can clean it up you see, just as long as you’re gone.”
The Script – Break Even
“I”m still alive but I”m barely breathing. Just prayin’ to a god that I don’t believe in. Cause I got time while she got freedom. Cos when a heart breaks no it don’t break even.”
“Her best days will be some of my worst. She finally met a man that’s gonna put her first.”
“What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you, And what am I supposed to say when I’m chocked up that you’re okay. I”m falling to pieces.”
“They say bad things happen for a reason, but no wise words are gonna stop the bleeding.”
Beyonce – Single Ladies
The single ladies ANTHEM.
“Just cried my tears, for three good years. Ya can’t be bad at me…if you liked it you should have put a ring on it.”
Nickelback – How You Remind Me
“It’s not like you to say sorry, I was waiting on a different story, This time I’m mistaken for handing you a heart worth breaking and I’ve been wrong, I’ve been down, been to the bottom of every bottle these five words in my head scream “are we having fun yet?”
Eamon – F**k it (I Don’t Want You Back)
This one is for when you are really angry.
“See, I don’t know why I liked you so much, I gave you all of my trust, I told you, I loved you, now that’s all down the drain, Ya put me through pain, I wanna let u know how I feel.”
Eamon – F–k It (I Don’t Want You Back) (Official Music Video with onscreen Lyrics – BK) from Banuka Knight on Vimeo.
Beyonce – Irreplaceable
“I could have another you in a minute, Matter fact he’ll be here in a minute.”
John Legend – Used To Love U
“Baby when I used to love you, There’s nuttin that I wouldn’t do, I went through the fire for you, Do anything you asked me to, But I’m tired of living this lie.”
No Doubt – Don’t Speak
“Don’t speak, I know just what you’re saying, so please stop explaining, don’t tell me cos it hurts.”
We will have another 20 soon so come back to Frost and if you have any favourites then comment below or email Frost at frostmagazine@gmail.com
Ulrich Seidel has built the reputation of something of a cinematic provocateur. The Austrian filmmakers canon has treated audiences to unflinching depictions of fundamental human flaws and weaknesses in the likes of Dog Days and Import/Export. In describing his 1996 documentary Animal Love, Werner Herzog (a director who is known for not avoiding the metaphorical abyss) was heard to say, ‘Never have I looked so directly into hell.’ Such sombre reactions have heard his name mentioned in the same breath as that as fellow Austrian Michael Haneke, a director also noted for his brutal, singular directorial aesthetic. His last three films, The Paradise Trilogy, seem to fit the mould of his previous works as we are treated to unblinking depictions of three women in one family and their (often disastrous) attempts to find happiness for themselves. The previous chapters, Love and Faith, followed two adult sisters grappling with carnal desires and religious beliefs. But on the evidence of the final installment, Hope, Seidel is not solely interested in pouring punishment upon his characters. There would seem to be cautious optimism in the tale of Melanie (Melanie Lenz), a young teenager (the daughter of Love’s protagonist) who is sent to a weight loss camp on the outskirts of Vienna over summer. Not at all concerned about an enforced health regime, Melanie spends her time at the camp longing to return home, discussing her crushes and sexuality with her fellow campers and developing an unhealthy fixation with the camp physician (Joseph Lorenz) , a man 40 years her senior.
Seidel’s approach to the material initially appears to be incredibly artificial and constructed. The framing and composition of his shots is meticulously crafted with everything within the frame feeling astonishingly deliberate in it’s placement. Characters seem dwarfed by their surroundings from dim, white washed corridors to shrowdy, mist covered woods filmed with incredibly deep focus. Incredibly long takes (some static, others roaming) give little to no respite from developments on screen whether they be physical exercise that borders on ritualistic humiliation, or Melanie’s increasingly uncomfortable relationship with the doctor. It’s rigorous imagery reminded me of the astonishingly dark comedy Dogtooth, which also forced audiences to look longer than feels comfortable. This rigid style is broken infrequently when the characters defy their oppressive surroundings. Games of the spin the bottle and midnight kitchen raids are shot in handheld camera movements and natural lighting, which punctuate the formalism like a breath of fresh air. The film hits its strongest moments as a clear, crisp portrait of adolescent boredom. The kids at camp are seemingly content with their body image and far are more fulfilled staying up all hours pondering boys, fashion and everything else one ponders at that age. Dialogue driven scenes are performed in long takes that pull no punches in frank, explicit yet naive attitudes towards life, love and lust. There is a surprising amount of humour to be mined from the proceedings that one would not expect from a filmmaker with such a dark and brooding body of work. Certainly there is nothing too broad when it comes to laughs but depictions of the ridiculous exercise regimes and sharp divide between the children and their adult minders do raise the occasional giggle. The only communication Melanie has with her (separated) parents is with a set of contradictory voice messages she leaves each of them that manages to elicit some light relief. It certainly makes a contrast to some of the more deliberately uncomfortable moments.
As a newcomer performance Melanie Lenz is simply terrific. Working on material that encourages improvisation on the actors behalf, it is a performance that is at once both beyond her years and yet achingly vulnerable. There’s no showiness or force in her acting; only a clear, disarmingly honest presence. Joseph Lorenz certainly has one of the harder jobs in the film. Whereas most audiences would seek clarity from such confrontational material, both he and Seidel’s script paint the doctor in a hauntingly ambiguous manner. The character is certainly aware of Melanie’s infatuation but his reaction is difficult to fathom. The two seem to be engaged in a psychological tug of war with each other, testing each others limits and attitudes whilst remaining within is perceived to be a socially acceptable norms. It is in the scenes where we leave the confines of the camp for more rural settings , that the lines between the characters blur including one climactic scene that whilst remaining on the right side of taste and ambiguity, is deeply uncomfortable to watch. It really is to Lorenz’s credit that he handles such a potentially unlikeable role like an open book, free for the audience to read their own interpretation. In an age where media and social outlets treat such material with borderline hysteria, its refreshing to see a film that takes a moral yet calm view and doesn’t treat anyone like a victim.
Though it certainly cannot be described as an easy watch and deserves its place in Seidel’s challenging filmography, Paradise: Hope surprisingly lives up to its title. It has a brace of strong, even charming performances with a steady, skilled hand at the helm and a genuinely bittersweet tone that challenges yet never feels like empty provocation. Seidel is a tremendous new talent of European cinema and his next project will be one to watch.
Science Uncovered, the annual free after-hours extravaganza, returns on Friday 27 September 2013 with more on offer than ever before.
The Natural History Museum is throwing open its doors and giving you exclusive access to its world-class scientists and rarely seen parts of its collections. Science Uncovered is your chance to discover more about the Museum, hear about the latest research and enjoy a drink in the grand setting of the Museum’s Central Hall.
For many, meeting Museum scientists is one of the most surprising highlights of the evening. Normally behind the scenes, our scientists tackle issues of global importance – from malaria to species loss. Science Uncovered involves 375 researchers from the across the Museum and from other leading organisations, such as the Metropolitan Police Service and the British Antarctic Survey.
Discover what goes on beyond the galleries at this world-renowned centre of research, learn more about the life of a scientist and find out something unexpected about the natural world. You can get involved in more than 200 different activities on the night, from the Science Bar and Nature Live talks, to visiting the Science Stations and taking part in exclusive behind-the-scenes tours. The evening is also a chance to see some of the extraordinary specimens from the Museum’s collections not normally on display.
New this year:
Science Uncovered is part of EU Researchers’ Night, when institutions in more than 360 cities across Europe reveal the exciting scientific research taking place and celebrate the people who make it possible.
There will be activities suitable for everyone but from 18.00 the event is most suitable for adults. Space is limited for some activities and free tickets for certain events will be available on the night on a first come first served basis.
| Date and times: | 27 September 2013, 16.00 – midnight |
| Visitor enquiries: | 020 7942 5000 |
| Admission: | Free |
| Nearest tube: | South Kensington |
| Website: | www.nhm.ac.uk/scienceuncovered |
Grilled Goat’s Cheese and Roasted Peppers on Corn Cakes
Makes 3 loaded rice cakes
Create a wonderfully warm snack by topping your rice cakes with grilled goat’s cheese
and roasted red and yellow peppers. Just joyous!
2 large red peppers
2 large yellow peppers
4 tbsp extra virgin
olive oil
200g soft goat’s cheese
Salt and pepper
3 Kallo Corn Cakes
Place your cored and deseeded peppers in a roasting dish, cover generously with olive
oil and roast for 20 minutes.
Cut the goat’s cheese into rounds and place under a moderate grill for 2 to 3 minutes.
Layer onto your rice cake, before seasoning with salt and pepper and another drizzle of
olive oil.
Bikini Friendly Recipes For The Summer Season
We love food at Frost Magazine. We love it so much that no diet in which you need to deprive yourself will work for us. That is why these recipes caught our eye. Great food you can eat while being healthy and losing weight? Yes please.
There is no denying that the British love a good old fashioned barbecue! So with body conscious Brits preparing to don their bikinis and swim shorts this summer Dr Dukan has answered our dieting prayers.
This easy menu, boasting a delicious range of sides, mains and desserts, means you can indulge in all of your summer favourites whilst losing those extra inches fast!
Spicy Chicken Kebabs
Serves: 5
Preparation time: 30 minutes (plus 2-3 hours marinating)
Cooking time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
25 small wooden kebab sticks
1kg (2lb 4oz) chicken breasts, cut into cubes
250ml (9fl oz) fat-free natural yoghurt
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp ground tumeric
1 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp ground coriander
1 tsp grated ginger
1 garlic clove, crushed
Prepare the marinade with the yoghurt and all the spices, ginger and garlic. Thread the chicken pieces on to the kebab sticks and place them in a dish, covering them completely with the marinade.
Leave to marinate in the fridge for several hours or overnight. Place the kebabs on the barbeque andcook for 8-10 minutes until the meat is browned and tender.
Asian Style Beef Skewers
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 20 minutes
4 thin-cut sirloin steaks or minute steaks, trimmed of any fat and each cutinto 3 long strips
100ml of soy sauce
1 tbsp of sweetener
1 tbsp sesame seeds (tolerated)
For the salad:
1 tsp white wine vinegar
1 tsp light soy sauce
1 cucumber, cut into small chunks
3 spring onions, sliced
1Ž2 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
Handful coriander leaves, chopped
Heat grill to high. In a bowl, mix the steak strips with the soy sauce and sesame seeds. Thread onto 12 skewers, then grill for 12 minutes, turning halfway through, until golden and sticky.
For the salad, mix the vinegar and soy together, then toss with the cucumber, spring onions, chilli and coriander. Serve with the beef skewers.
Dukan Burger
Serves : 2
Preperation: 10 minutes, cook 10 minutes (or more according to taste)
Ingredients
3 tbsp oat bran
4 tbsp low fat fromage frais
2 eggs
2 tsp baking powder
2 low fat beef burgers (5% fat)
2 sliced onions
2 red onions sliced
2 gherkins
Tsp Dijon mustard
Dukan ketchup and Dukan mayonnaise
Mix half of the oat bran, egg, half of fromage frais and half baking soda. Pour in a circle mould and cook it in the micro wave for 4 minutes. Remove the bread and slice it in to pieces. Repeat the operation a second time to make another bread. You can toast if you wish.
Cook the onion in a nonstick frying pan with a bit of water and then cook your burgers. On one slice of the bread spread some mustard and then Dukan ketchup and mayonnaise according to your taste and then add your burger. Add the sliced onion and gherkin.
Tzatziki
1 serving
Preparation time: 10 minutes (plus refrigeration time)
No cooking required
Ingredients:
1/2 cucumber
Sea salt
1 garlic clove, finely chopped
150g (51Ž2oz) fat-free natural yoghurt
Peel and deseed the cucumber, chop it up very finely, then sprinkle a generous pinch of sea salt over it and leave for a few minutes to extract any juices. Then mix together all the ingredients and refrigerate for several hours. Serve very cold.
Dukan Coleslaw
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 20 minutes
4 tbsp Dukan mayonnaise
4 tsp red wine vinegar
1 tsp of linseeds, toasted
1Ž2 white cabbage, shredded
4 carrots , peeled and shredded
1 red onion, halved and thinly sliced
Mix the mayonnaise, vinegar and fennel seeds and season really well. Toss with all the vegetables and leave for 20 minutes. Toss again before serving.
And finally, don’t miss out on those additional extras which always seem to find their way in to any BBQ spread – do away with fatty crisps and indulge in Dr Dukan’s vegetable snacks or simply replace with salted oat bran biscuits!
Please see Dr Dukan’s desserts selection below:
Iced Lemon Mousse
Serves: 2-3
Preparation time: 10 minutes (plus freezing time)
No cooking required
Ingredients:
4 egg whites
500g (1bl 2oz) virtually fat-free fromage frais
Zest of 1 lemon
Juice of 5 lemons
Beat the egg whites until stiff. Whisk the fromage frais and carefully mix together with the lemon zest, lemon juice and egg whites. Place the mousse in a dish and freeze until it has set firm.
Chocolate and Cinnamon Ice Cream
Serves: 6
Preparation : 5 minutes – Refrigeration time : 2 hrs
Ingredients:
500ml low fat fromage frais
1 fresh vanilla bean pod or two drops of Dukan vanilla flavouring
4 tbsp of 1% Dukan cocoa powder
5 to 7 tbsp of sweetener according to taste
1 tbs of powdered cinnamon
Mix all the ingredientstogether and pour into an icecream tub then pop into the freezer. Freeze for one hour and then remove, stir well and put back in freezer for a final hour. It’s ready! Can be kept two days in the freezer.
Strawberry Milkshake
Serves 2
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients:
· 50 ml skimmed milk
· 50 ml low fat fromage frais or low fat greek yogurt
· 1 or two drops of Dukan Strawberry flavouring
· A few ice cubes
Mix all the ingredients in a blender and serve with a straw.
Vanilla Lollipops
Serves: 4
Preparation: 10 minutes; Freezing time: overnight
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons vanilla flavouring
300g fat-free fromage frais
4 Canderel vanilla sticks
Have ready four plastic lollipop moulds with sticks. Stir the vanilla flavouring in to the fromage frais. Add the sweetener and beat the mixture using an electric whisk. Fill the lollipop moulds and freeze overnight. Enjoy them the following day!
The Churches Conservation Trust
13th August – 5th October 2013
Suffolk – Somerset – Northamptonshire – Lincolnshire
| · Stunning photographs of England’s most ancient churches available· Fascinating programme of four themed tours:
‘Wallpaintings, Stained Glass and Memorials’ ‘Churches at War’, ‘Carvings’ and ‘Monuments and Memorials’· 12 historic sites visited |
The Churches Conservation Trust (CCT), the national charity protecting ancient churches at risk, has launched a programme of fascinating Historic Church Tours across the country.
The tours will guide visitors through stunning countryside vistas, whilst breathing life into England’s shrouded ancestry and exquisite ancient architecture. Four intriguing themes included in the special Historic Church Tours are ‘Wallpaintings, Stained Glass and Memorials’ ‘Churches at War’, ‘Carvings’ and ‘Monuments and Memorials’
Taking place at selected churches across the country from Suffolk to Somerset, Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire, Historic Church Tours encompass a comprehensive geography of British architectural and social heritage.
The next tour, Wallpaintings, Stained Glass and Memorials, will take place in Suffolk, 10:30am–4:30pm on August 13. Starting at All Saints, Little Wenham, a 13th-century flint church often described as one of Suffolk’s best-kept secrets, visitors will be in awe of the stunning wall-paintings and canopied ancient wall monuments. After a light lunch, move onto St Mary’s, Badley, a truly remarkable Medieval church with an atmosphere of great peace and stillness. With nothing for company but a 16th-century farmhouse and the wildlife of its pretty churchyard, St Mary’s is a breath-taking retreat for any passer-by. The final stop of the tour will be St Peter’s, Claydon. Overlooking the Gipping Valley, this church will astound visitors with its vibrant stained glass and extravagant carvings; a spectacular site to end this tour.
Historic Church Tours taking place in 2013 are as follows:
AUGUST
Wallpaintings, Stained Glass and Memorials – Suffolk
The three churches on this tour were selected for their stunning artwork in the form of extravagant carvings, stunning wallpaintings and vibrant stained glass.
SEPTEMBER
Churches at War – Somerset
Three of the CCT’s most stunning and iconic churches are positioned in Somerset. All three have been unwittingly caught up in a time of war, from acting as a hideaway during the Monmouth rebellion, to being solitary observer of mid-air disaster, the churches have seen all and kept their counsel.
Carvings – Northamptonshire
CCT churches in Northampton have an abundance of carved treasures on display. For this tour, CCT have selected three of the best from St Peter & St Paul’s in Preston Deanery, stunning carvings of animals, to the Norman St Michael’s, Farndish, which boasts gorgeous carved corbels and elegant arches, and the stunning 900 year old St Peter’s in Northampton, which is full of carved treasures.
OCTOBER
Monuments and Memorials – Lincolnshire
This tour will explore the stunning and spectacular monuments and memorials in three Lincolnshire churches. Take in the breath-taking interior of St Lawrence’s, Snarford, the unusual red-brick chapel of St George, Goltho, which stands alone amid acres of corn and oilseed rape with only a few trees for company, and Milton Mausoleum, the only surviving mausoleum in Nottinghamshire.
All guided tours are priced at £40 per person and will include a light lunch and coach transportation to and from a local train station.
Tickets are available on general release now. To book tickets, go to http://www.visitchurches.org.
