Do your meds cause you to walk too much?

My normal walking distance is measured in yards, and damn few at that (if I try to walk further, can’t breathe, heart fucks up – it’s a technical term!). There is also exhaustion and a hell of a lot of pain to contend with. Anyhoo, as regular readers will know, I currently have, in addition [...]

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Man-made superflu – not really a good idea…

If you were a scientist, surely the last thing you’d think of doing would be pissing about with the H5N1 avian flu virus, to make it more contagious to humans. After all, that would be pointless and dangerous, would it not? So why did a reckless bugger called Ron Fouchier, at the Erasmus Medical Centre, [...]

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Vegetarian in the kitchen…

Part 2 of an ongoing series…                                                                    Part 1 here… Which, really, is pretty much the same as anyone else in the kitchen, but without animal and fish bits. Basically, about equipment… There was a time when I would have eschewed all electrical equipment in a domestic kitchen, with the possible exception of a blender, and [...]

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Sign the Hardest Hit Christmas card petition…

Sign the Hardest Hit Christmas card petition to Cameron and Clegg. Note for the

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My Veggie Store-cupboard…

About 20 years ago I took my veggie kitchen notebook and wrote it up as a veggie cookery book, mainly for my own entertainment and, as I said some little while ago, it’s my intention, when I’m able (it’s the equivalent of a medium-sized paperback, which has to be retyped), to transfer it to my [...]

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Is your glass half full or half empty?

Whoever formulated the pop psychology glass half full/half empty theory really should have asked  drinker about it. Look, it’s simple.

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FTL neutrinos and time travel?

From an article entitled Neutrinos still faster than light in latest version of experiment, the Guardian optimistically posits the possibility of time travel. A tad too optimistically, in my view. There’s a real problem with time travel, in that it can, quite reasonably, be argued that the past no longer exists and the future hasn’t [...]

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Pickled Eggs Update…

Made a batch of pickled eggs a week ago, and couldn’t remember what I’d used to tint the cider vinegar brown last time, and flavour it (it’s been a while), as I don’t like pallid eggs, a hangover from the days when they were routinely pickled in malt vinegar (turned out

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Google now has a verbatim search facility…

Finally, Google have introduced a verbatim web search facility. This means that it will search for exactly what you ask it to search for, and not get bizarrely and unhelpfully creative, as we all know it so easily can. However, Google being Google, the implementation is clunky. Their press release says “You can access the [...]

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Insomnia is a complex issue for many…

John Crace, in the Guardian, discusses insomnia, along with an “expert” who says the “NHS ought to be providing Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to treat it.” Oh bollocks! CBT is snake-oil for the 21st century! Anyway, some of us already know all too well why we can’t sleep, so having it explained to us by some [...]

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