So, how lucky can you get? Not only did we, quite fortuitously, choose to go to Cyprus over the Greek Orthodox Easter weekend, but we also hit a Cypriot heat wave which took the average daily temperatures up from a pleasantish, but cloudy, 15-17˚C to a sun-blasted – but …
Environmental Issues
Social innovation – the Cypriot way
Hill villages the world over are under threat. Subsistence farming is hard, other work non -existent and the temptation to move to the cities in search of an easier way of life almost irresistible. Be it in on the Scottish fells, in the foothills of the Himalyas or on the slopes …
ES updates…….
I receive almost daily reports of news and events related to electrosensitivity, many of which are fascinating, but not really relevant for the FoodsMatter site – but I hate not to be able to share them so here we go with a few of the most recent. (Many thanks, incidentally, …
Thomas Ball, photographer
It is purely down to Thomas Ball, who is neither electrosensitive nor has any particular connection with anyone who is, that today's excellent article by Nicholas Blincoe on electrosensitivity appeared in the Guardian Weekend. He became interested in the condition a couple of …
Smells……..
As any regular reader of this blog will know - I am besotted with coconut oil. I spread it on my bread, I cook with it, I use it to clean my face – and of course, I use it to ward off Alzheimer's disease. (For those of you who do not know about the link between medium chain …





