Paleo food

It is surprising how many people pick up trends and follow them without further thought. The paleo diet is a good example of this. It assumes that the hunter gatherer diet was good; that the [...]

Dear readers, I need your support at an event. My talk at Forest Arts Centre on the 24th October 2019 at 7.30pm, needs an audience. Tickets are £5.50, all proceeds go to the arts as I speak for [...]

Pigs are given an unfair reputation. Fat pig, dirty pig, filthy pig, all derogatory terms of insult which demean the pig. Yet, in 2500 BC at the builder’s camp near Stonehenge, called [...]

I am going to eat like an ancient human being – it’s doctors orders! Like my pagan ancestor Zuri, I must consume meat and offal. Oddly enough, in my book I did mention iron and the [...]

Millennials and their superfoods dominate the media these days. A young woman was being interviewed on television choosing food. As she reached for the coconut milk, she claimed that they, the [...]

Does it seem an odd question, ‘Why do ducks nest so far from water? If so, let me explain. When we moved into our bungalow in Friars Cliff, neighbours told us about the duck. It seems she [...]

As we become older, relationships become more apparent but not always in a good way. When I was 12 years old, I joined a milk round at weekends and holidays. I had the contrasting qualities of [...]

“I promise that I will never buy you a bunch of flowers.” It’s a promise that I have kept to my wife because British flowers have disappeared. It doesn’t make me seem [...]

I was considering a post about hedgehogs as one of Zuri’s favourite foods in 2200BC, but events overtook me. In our garage a few days ago a number of Christmas baubles were on the floor. I [...]

I really felt for Zuri as the sun shone a few weeks ago. It’s not so much the dying tree leaves but the lack of ground vegetation; the plants she foraged day by day. Her problems with drought and [...]