Well, yes, apparently it is.... According to a report on EurekaAlert, quoting an article in Fungal Biology, 'the extreme conditions in some of the most common household appliances make these sites make perfect habitats for extremotolerant fungi'.... Researchers took samples …
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100 years on and is bread still making you ill?
I have just been alerted by a post on Micki's Truly Gluten Free site of an excellent article by Alex Renton in today's Mail about the vicissitudes of bread during the 20th century. From all but poisonous to nutritious and now back to, if not poisonous, sufficiently unhealthy to …
Thinking of holidays?…..
Well, as I sit here and watch the rain pour down on a typical cold, grey English June day, I certainly am... But not of a sun-drenched beach – instead I am dreaming of a snowy, but sunny, mountain. Why? Well, because my nephew Alastair and and his wife, Kathryn, have just 'gone …
Coeliac/gluten-free tweetup…. 2nd June 8–9pm
Those readers who 'tweet' will know exactly what I mean – to those who don't, apologies! A 'tweetup' is a get-together on Twitter – you all sit round your computers or your mobiles for an hour and 'chat' on Twitter – a formula that is now common in many online guises. You …
Coeliacsmatter.com – at last!
Despite our best endeavours we did not manage to get our new coeliac site launched during Coeliac awareness week last week – but we did make it yesterday! Please check it out. In it you will find all of the material on coeliac disease and gluten intolerance which was hidden …