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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…
We did it! It’s been an exciting couple of months with the launch of The Retreat at Split Farthing Hall. We’ve held our first few retreats including Claire guiding an ‘Adventure for the Soul’ program and encouraging women to ‘Evoke Your Senses’ on another weekend. Plus we just had a fabulous double page article published…
With my parents visiting and the house getting close to being finished, it was such a hectic June that I never got the opportunity to write anything! So to bring you up to date, I’ve included some photos of what we’ve been doing and how it’s all looking. The main house is complete, paintings are…
With spring on its way we managed to finish planting our 2 new woodland areas and hedging just in time. We had started last November but the snowy cold weather put that on hold until February! So now we’re feeling very ‘green’ having just put in over 2000 new trees and 1km of hedging… It’s…
One question I keep being asked is ‘how much salt can we eat?’ Firstly it’s probably useful to know that our bodies do need salt to function properly and our own, Dr Claire Maguire has answered most of this question in her Dear Doctor question (reproduced below): “Don’t be confused as in my heart of…
My personal experience has now been ‘confirmed’ by science – carbohydrates are addictive (Sunday Times, 5 Sep 10 – Fat fix…). I have seen it with my own eyes, though I’m not convinced that ‘addictive’ is the correct term. Perhaps ‘strong cravings’ is really a better description! My experience comes from Mike. We have been…