Paleo food

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 [...]

I spent three weeks in Lanzarote in February 2020. I would hate you to think that I was lounging in the sun doing nothing. In fact, I was caring for myself in accordance with advice from a [...]

It is a clash of perspectives; to be a vegan and an environmentalist. The two do not sit comfortably together. That ridiculous almond milk has attained the status of manna, a miraculous [...]

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, thank you for your support. My Stonehenge talk at Forest Arts was a success in October 2019. I had an audience and as all proceeds go to the arts, I spoke for free. It was about how [...]