Rice paddies in Bangladesh, courtesy of On Earth where you will also find a scary article on what global warming could do to Bangladesh... I am sure that many concerned parents, wheat and gluten intolerants/coeliacs and vegetarians will have tuned into tonight's Channel 4 …
Environmental Issues
The Everyman, the Futurist and Il Forno….
The new Everyman theatre is Liverpool's latest cultural icon, winner of the Stirling prize for architecture, recycled, sustainable, heat recovered and filled with great quality air.... Portraits of everyday Liverpudlians have been designed into the theatre's 'street face' by …
FreeFrom and organic in the West of Ireland
The ostensible purpose of this blog is to rave about the delightful Courthouse Restaurant in Kinloch and the lovely Organic Centre at Rossinver (both in the far west of County Leitrim) but I also wanted an excuse to give an airing to some of the wonderful cloudscapes that County …
BT Fon
You may remember that some months ago I was having a fine old rant about BT piggy backing their '5 million hotspots' on the back of all of our wifi routers? Well, the subject has not gone away and a few days ago there was a comment added to the post from Barney LaCat and …
Gluten sniffing dogs
Who can ever resist a doggy story? Well, not many of us so, when you combine a dog with a feel good allergy story, you are away! We first tracked down allergen-detector dogs back in 2006 when we discovered PeanutDogs.com run by Sharon Perry at the Southern Star Ranch Boarding …