Let me introduce you to Giorgio – Giorgio Gaggia that is. As anyone knows, who has visited Foods Matter or been a judge for the Freefrom Food Awards, Giorgio is on duty from 9.30am every morning ready to supply us all with reviving and enlivening espressos, machiatos, Americanos, …
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Startled heron and blooming roses….
The heron has finally managed to emerge from under the miscanthus – and the roses are definitely having a second flush!! Read more... …
Cat napping
I have always been deeply jealous of those who were able to 'cat-nap'. Just drop of for ten minutes in some unlikely location and wake up refreshed, revived and ready to soldier on with the task in hand. If I do it, I wake up groggy, headachy, grumpy, with a crick in my neck and …
Induction hobs pumping out serious amounts of electromagnetic radiation
Know those cool and trendy looking induction hobs? (This is a Miele by the way, taken from their site.) Well, not only are they seriously expensive (a Miele 930mm hob could cost you nearly £2,000...) but according to some new research reported by PowerWatch, they are delivering …
Chocolate – again….
I just caught the tail end of a report on the radio this morning about yet another benefit of chocolate – apparently it can cut the rate of stroke in women. (See the report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.) By the time I logged in the kill-joy reporter was …