I realise, with horror, that it is well over a week since I even looked at this blog – but I blame it all on 'freefrom'..... It has, indeed, been a heavy couple of freefrom weeks: the closure of the entry for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards on August 31st, an exciting webinar …
Allergy medication and why are so many people going gluten-free?
A recent article in Natural News highlighted a number of possibly unanticipated side effects of allergy medication that you should probably know about if you intend to use OTC medications such as anti-histamines. Read the full article here but a few that I was not aware of …
Another Arcola rave!
Sorry all - another Arcola rave.... More excellent music from talented young musicians at their delightfully named Grimeborn Festival. This time two baroque operas, Handel's Acis and Galatea (complete with evil, but sad, giant) and Monteverdi's somewhat amoral Coronation of …
I have a complaint…
I have a complaint. I have a cold. So? what's the big deal? Lots of people get colds. Yes, but I don't! Or only so rarely that it doesn't really count. Anyhow, that is not my complaint. My complaint is about the injustice of colds. When I get a cold, during the day I …
Horizon on allergies
I have to admit to turning on last night's Horizon programme on allergies with a bit of a sinking heart – expecting the usual perfectly worthy but not really helpful selection of talking heads. But indeed not! Led by the wonderfully avuncular but authoritative Prof. Graham Rook, …