Many of you will already know, or at least know of, Ruth Holroyd who runs the What allergy? blog. Ruth has more allergies and intolerances than all of our hot breakfasts put together and writes both movingly and amusingly about living with them. One of the symptoms of her many …
The ocean is broken – Fukushima fallout
I hate to pierce my rosy Liverpool bubble but I feel that two pieces I read this week do need a wider readership than just me..... One is an article in last months' Townsend Letter detailing the on-going disaster potential of the tsunami-damaged Fukishima nuclear plant in …
Lovely Liverpool – and a really good show…
What a great city! And what lovely friendly people! Just do not ever try to get there up the M6 on a Friday night..... Our introduction to said friendliness was a taxi driver who found us (Cressida, Alex and I) peering despairingly through the rain, in the dark, at an Albert …
Kefir news
Despite lots of enquiries about kefir, Gill Jacobs' excellent article and and a nagging guilty conscience, since our kefir grains gave up the ghost a couple of years ago, I have not got round to getting another lot started. However, the matter was taken out of my hands by …
How allergic people shop
Our good friend Hazel Gowland has been working with a team from Unilever on how people with food allergies actually shop and came up with these interesting, although not entirely surprising, conclusions: Although self-reported, the pattern of food allergy reflects other …