Smart meters were heralded by energy suppliers and some environmentalists as a major tool by which we could control our energy consumption and thereby help to reduce greenhouse gases. Each house could monitor its energy consumption room by room, billing would be easier and more …
Environmental Issues
Crustasun – killing your crab kindly…
Somehow I have never quite believed the theory that chucking a lobster or a crab into a pot of boiling water was a good way for it to go... Did it really not feel any pain?... Hard to believe. Well, yes, apparently it does feel pain - a lot of pain and for quite a long time …
Fukushima fall out
The web has been awash for the last year in disaster movie scenarios of what could happen if the badly damaged reactors at Fukushima were hit by another earthquake or just, as they quite possibly could, collapsed. A report in late March which found that the cooling water levels …
Coping with CFS and ME
Following on from the lovely ME story I just posted....... I have been meaning to write this post ever since a friend asked me, a few weeks ago, whether I had any suggestions for her daughter who was really struggling with what appeared to be chronic fatigue and did not seem …
Lead contamination in lipstick
Being a 'foody' person, when we first started the FreeFrom Skincare Awards I found myself wondering whether there really was a need for such an award. It did not take long for me to realise the error of my ways. Just drawing up the criteria for what would be acceptable in …