At last, the good news I have been waiting for! Meat & dairy produce are good for you. What a relief, and it has taken decades to come. I have often mentioned to Ann that none of the health [...]
Sheep get a bad press. It’s as if these dumb creatures lack brains and any sense of their own danger. That is a travesty and I am going to plead their case. I see sheep all the time, on [...]
Advocates of the keto diet are adamant that our ancient forebears ate little but meat. That was not for a short period but for hundreds of thousands of years. That extended time knocks into a [...]
I never thought I would be writing this, that I could eat like Zuri. In case you had not noticed, she was my pagan ancestor and an advocate for paleo-food. Down at the local mill, essentially a [...]
We were invited to the birth by the local farmer, Ann and I. Well, more than one birth, 1500 in fact. The soft, silent, bouncy walk into the barn was over a mass of straw. Around the perimeter, [...]
Welcome to the Dexter, a rare breed cow. They are my neighbours but living outdoors rather than in. I suspect that we meet and chat to them (cowtalk) more than we do our human neighbours. They [...]
The Channel 4 programme Surviving the Stone Age really appealed to me. The reality was less so. The first, of three, was on Saturday 7th November 2020. The clothing of the eight participants [...]
The Chinese Government has approved Chinese Medicine. Does that seem incongruous, a Communist government adopting a pagan or perhaps Buddhist practice from the past? Well, not quite. It seems [...]
The word passion appeals to me; am I getting to be a dirty old man? Yes, is the answer but the dirt is soil. Oops, I hate soil being called dirt so I must not correlate the two words. Soil really [...]
The rare perception of my mother-in-law now comes to the fore. She often said to my wife, “You can make a meal out of a dishcloth.” Was that what attracted me to Ann in the first [...]