Most people who use herbal medicine of any kind will be aware that amongst the many other areas of our daily life in which they dabble, the EU regulators have also been interesting themselves in herbal medicines. Depending on which side of the fence you sit, their desire to …
Cress succumbs to mobile phone radiation
Lea Nielsen, Mathilde Nielsen, Signe Nielsen, Sisse Coltau and Rikke Holm, all of whom go to Hjallerup School in North Jutland in Denmark, have just won themselves one thousand krone for a very 'elegant' bit of science.... Noticing that they all had difficulty in sleeping and …
Pizza Express gluten free – does it deliver?
With a somewhat belated nod in the direction of Coeliac Awareness Week, I decided to go and try that Pizza Express gluten-free pizza that I was raving on about two weeks ago. Would it live up to expectations?..... Well, I am delighted to say that it did! Thin, crisp and not at …
Easter in the Troodos mountains
So, how lucky can you get? Not only did we, quite fortuitously, choose to go to Cyprus over the Greek Orthodox Easter weekend, but we also hit a Cypriot heat wave which took the average daily temperatures up from a pleasantish, but cloudy, 15-17˚C to a sun-blasted – but …
Social innovation – the Cypriot way
Hill villages the world over are under threat. Subsistence farming is hard, other work non -existent and the temptation to move to the cities in search of an easier way of life almost irresistible. Be it in on the Scottish fells, in the foothills of the Himalyas or on the slopes …