Diabetes is not our area of expertise (we scarcely have enough time to keep abreast of allergy, let alone taking on diabetes) but I do feel very sorry for diabetics. Their lives used to be trying, but simple – they had a strict diet to which they had to adhere and specific (not …
Understanding autistic people
I used to be a great fan on Radio 4's Book of the Week, broadcast every night at half past midnight but these days, I tend eschew post midnight listening for the somewhat earlier Book at Bedtime at 10.45. So it was by pure chance that three times this week I have caught the …
Corn in sanitary products – and elsewhere
Although corn is nowhere near as common an allergen as dairy or, indeed wheat, for those who are allergic to it, it is a very trying allergy to have! If you think that wheat is ubiquitous - just try corn. Even when it is not an ingredient it will almost inevitably have been …
Food allergy and bullying
Sadly, bullying has been endemic in schools as far back as Tom Brown's Schooldays and no doubt long before. Whether it is the colour of your skin or your hair (we redheads have had our fair share), the fact that you are too tall/too small/too fat/too thin, speak with a lisp or …
Grimes on the Beach
For those who do not already know, this year is the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Britten, one of the greatest composers of the 20th century. Britten lived for most of his life near Aldeburgh, on the Suffolk coast, where, in 1948, he started a music …