Alex has done it again..... Found an extraordinarily abstruse subject (did you ever read his piece on gluten-free communion hosts?) and dissected it in great detail. But on this occasion he has not only dissected it, but reconstructed it into manageable and comprehensible …
Environmental Issues
Just Eat and allergen laden takeaways
Thanks to Panorama's sleuths it has been revealed that many of the meals delivered via Just Eat, the biggest of the on line food delivery apps, come from outlets with zero knowledge of what a food allergen might be, let alone which food allergens may be in the food that they …
Christmas shopping in NW3…..
If anyone out there is likely to be in reasonable reach of NW3 this Saturday (8th December) between 11am and 4pm – and is an enthusiast of mid 20th century Brutalist architecture, the Bauhaus movement, Agatha Christie or Soviet spies..... They might just want to pop in to the …
Harry Leslie Smith
(Image courtesy of Sarah Lee for the Guardian.) I don't usually regret having handed over all social media activity to Cressida and Kathy but reading the Guardian's obituary this week of Harry Leslie Smith aged 95 I sort of wish that I had remained logged in just to read his …
FreeFrom Eating Out Awards – and today’s papers…..
The three weeks that followed our celebration of James' life on November 2nd (see my earlier blog) have been extremely hectic as I had to cram all of the work that I would normally have done over four to six weeks for the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards presentation into 15 days. So …



