I guess we are all up for doing our bit to be green and save the planet. We dutifully separate the plastic from the glass, from the tin, from the paper, from the cardboard, and put them all into different bags to be collected by the recycling truck which, in Camden, then chucks …
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Fancy a freefrom skiing trip? Combined with a two tier birthday cake?….
My nephew, Alastair, and his wife, Kathryn, are just setting up for their first season with their very own ski-ing chalet in France – they have spent the last two years learning the ropes running chalets for other people. Their new chalet has two kitchens and as they are both …
Ethics in vaccination – and child protection
A child is severely injured in a car accident and only a blood transfusion will save its life. But its parents are Jehovah's witnesses and passionately oppose blood transfusions. What is the doctor to do? This old dilemma has surfaced again but this time in the much disputed area …
Yurting…
I have just been staying in a yurt. A very fine yurt, tucked into a clearing in the wonderfully wild, woolly and verdant garden belonging to old friends of the late David Fleming, author of that extraordinary blueprint for a sustainable future, Lean Logic. I had never seen, …
Truly Gluten Free Weight Loss
I have just been reading a post on Micki Rose's Truly Gluten Free site in which she gives an update on her own health after three months on a totally grain/gluten free diet – and when I say totally, I mean totally. She has been tireless in tracking down gluten contamination to …