I read an article in The Week magazine recently (28 August 2010) commenting on how young girls in America are reaching puberty earlier. It seems that 23% of African-American & 10% of white girls have started developing breasts by the age of seven! The article mentions that possible causes may be obesity (the breasts are…
It’s the end of August and the plums are getting ripe. The problem is, as usual, that all the plums are becoming ripe at the same time! I’ve just picked 16lb (7.2kg) off a single tree, and there are still a lot left on it. And I haven’t even touched the other trees yet… So…
Ever since I watched a documentary called ‘The Disappearing Male’ a few months ago whilst flying from Perth to London I’ve been meaning to write about this subject. I only saw this Canadian programme by accident – there was not enough time left of the flight to watch a full movie and the title caught…
I have been lazy recently and buying mayonnaise from my local supermarket. To my credit it was organic mayonnaise, however it is still made with sunflower oil. But now the shop has stopped stocking it, so I was looking at the ingredients of the other brands on the shelf. Actually there is really only one…
It’s the week of the Great Yorkshire Show, so we went along on Tuesday. It’s THE annual agricultural show in the country and it covers a huge area covering animal barns for horses, cows, pigs, sheep, goats, alpacas, rabbits & other livestock; displays of agricultural equipment & business/grant information, stalls selling country wear, art &…
As I’m now back in the UK that means The Sunday Times again and this week the Style magazine had an article about Soy – ‘The Truth About Soya’. It’s a good article which mentions that the forests of South America are being pillaged to provide fields for growing soya beans. And not just any…
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