I guess we’re all inherently trusting and that’s why marketing works! There’s an article in Which magazine this month (March 2012 – Food & Health/Food labelling) exposing how we’re being duped by food marketing campaigns on numerous fronts. Supermarkets such as Marks & Spencer’s have Lochmuir salmon – but no such place actually exists –…
I was reading about the recipients of The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes 2012 in the Times last Friday and one of them is the Institute for the Environment at Brunel University for their work showing the widespread occurrence of feminised male fish in the UK waters. They believe that it’s not only the effect of the…
Just a quick entry as we’ve been busy getting our new Fitness Studio ready on the Retreat. As my New Year’s resolution is to get more fit and toned I’ve put myself onto the next Fitness & Detox Kick-start retreat which starts on Thursday… So I get to try out the new space and equipment…
I’d like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a happy holiday season as it’s also Chanukah… Amy helped me make Christmas Florentine biscuits on Wed and they’re much better than last year. That’s because when Mum was out here visiting in June, we made some together and worked out that we needed to…
We picked the last of our pears today and that is the end of a bumper crop this year! We’ve been eating them, juicing, making cider, giving them away and this weekend I had Amy & Zoe help me dry them too. Here’s a photo of our last lot of apples and pears and our…
That old saying – we are what we eat – keeps coming up again and again. This time I spotted an article (Sunday Times, 11 Sep 11 – Eat yourself happy with mood food) reporting on how micronutrients such as vitamins and trace minerals in the foods we eat can quickly affect our concentration, memory…
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