In case you have been wondering why this poor blog has been somewhat ignored recently – it is because we have been going 'responsive'! By December 2014, according to SmartInsights.com, nearly 60% of internet users were accessing the web both on their laptop/PC and their mobile …
Farewell to the lovely Marguerite Patten
Very few people are still around who would remember Marguerite's wartime Kitchen Front recipes programme's but that was only the start of an extremely long career in cookery which really only ended four years ago when, at the ripe old age of 95 she had a serious stroke. I got …
Telling the medical wheat from the chaff
Ten days ago I had an exchange with Dr Janice Joneja which illustrated yet again the problems faced by conventional practitioners when dealing with little understood conditions such as autism. Dr Joneja had had an email from a dietitian who had recommended her article on …
Life before ‘freefrom’
Paddy J was a subscriber to the original Foods Matter magazine and followed a 'freefrom' gluten-free diet long before the term was invented. She does not have much patience with those food sensitive people who complain that there are not enough freefrom wheat/dairy/nut/soya …
FreeFrom Skincare Awards – the judging!!
Never let it be said that we do not take out duties seriously as judges of the FreeFrom Skincare Awards! Here is Ruth (of What Allergy?) testing out the lipsticks and me trying the chocolate (yes, I said chocolate) face mask!! To be honest, it was rather nice wandering …