I am not very good on statistics (something to do with me not being very good at maths?....) and spend far less time than I should on checking which of you read what on our sites. But yesterday Cressida emailed me some 'comparative data' for entries into last year's and this …
Allergies
Depression, darkness, allergy…
Mid January is, notoriously, the time of year when people (well, those in the northern hemisphere anyhow) feel most depressed. I think that last Monday is the peak (or trough) depression day but the whole month is pretty grim. Not surprising really – the weather is cold and grey, …
New codex standard for gluten-free food – and the dreaded ‘may contain’…
On January 1st the new regulations governing the use of the term 'gluten-free' came into force. As of Jan.1, to be able to call itself 'gluten-free' a food must contain less than 20 parts per million (ppm) of gluten, to call itself 'very low gluten' it must contain less than …
Tweeters, bloggers – and the FreeFrom Food Awards
Twitter, it seems, has made it through the gates of the Old Bailey. According to a report on Today this morning, the live reports of the Stephen Lawrence murder trial that you were watching on your TV screens were delivered to the reporter via tweets from journalists inside the …
In favour of fever
Our Christmas celebrations were slightly marred by one of our number coming down with a nasty bug – probably Norovirus or the 'winter vomiting bug' – that causes vomiting, diarrhoea, a temperature, headaches and stomach cramps. For everyone's information it normally goes away …