Thanks to the scary results of a survey of 7–9-year olds by the National Hydration Council, the council has joined forces with the Childrens' Food Trust and Stefan Gates, star of CBBC’s Gastronauts and Incredible Edibles, to try to persuade children to drink more water. And much …
Environmental Issues
On the re-sexing of trees and other matters respiratory
I spent much of last weekend discussing the re-sexing of trees. Not your everyday Sunday papers conversation - but fascinating none the less. How come? Well, I had staying as house guests Tom Ogren, world authority on allergen-free gardening, and Nigel Clarke, garden-centre …
Poppy planting at the Tower of London
Blood Swept Lands and a Sea of Red – the truly amazing installation at the Tower of London created by the ceramic artist Paul Cummins and hundreds and thousands of volunteers – is still creeping its way round the wide grass moat that surrounds the old grey walls of the Tower. …
I have a complaint…
I have a complaint. I have a cold. So? what's the big deal? Lots of people get colds. Yes, but I don't! Or only so rarely that it doesn't really count. Anyhow, that is not my complaint. My complaint is about the injustice of colds. When I get a cold, during the day I …
Horizon on allergies
I have to admit to turning on last night's Horizon programme on allergies with a bit of a sinking heart – expecting the usual perfectly worthy but not really helpful selection of talking heads. But indeed not! Led by the wonderfully avuncular but authoritative Prof. Graham Rook, …