For a very small town (population round 9,000) whose surrounding fields you can see from its centre, Kirkwall has a fine collection of antique buildings. This is what's left of the 16th century bishop's palace (replacing 12th century, 13th century and 14th century palaces) which …
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FreeFrom Orkney
Kirkwall Harbour last Monday evening – a truly wonderful sunset followed on Tuesday by glorious blue skies showcasing the Orkney mainland's rolling fields and many lochs at their best. (It didn’t last…. By Wednesday the mists had come down restricting visibility to about …
Lean Logic and Surviving the Future
Those of you who knew David Fleming or have read any of his works will be delighted to hear that, thanks to the sterling efforts of Shaun Chamberlain and publishers Chelsea Green, both Lean Logic, David's life's work, and Surviving the Future, Shaun's edited introduction to …
University caterers take up the challenge
In my last sad blog about Livvy I also mentioned that following on from my talk at the TUCO (The University Caterers' Organisation) conference there were several initiatives afoot to improve the provision of safe freefrom food for allergic and coeliac students starting …
Olympia Allergy Show 2016
I'm afraid that after three days of an Olympia exhibition – even one as good as the Allergy Show – you are slightly losing contact with reality, as you can see! This is Alex, Cressida and Kathy (of the FreeFrom Eating Out Awards – our newest recruit) 'being' FFA – FreeFrom …