I had a great day in the garden last week – for the ONE day where it wasn’t raining. It was a boggy, muddy experience, because I was mainly digging new beds and creating some new borders. But it was good to get outside in the fresh air and dream about what lovely things I might grow this year. I’ve got my seed packets all lined up and ready to go! It doesn’t matter whether you have an allotment…. a…
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Have you ever heard of a ‘Karen’? It’s a derogatory term dished out to middle-class women who are excessively demanding. The kind that become visibly enraged by poor service… Who are relentlessly pushy in all situations… Who demand to speak to the manager… And whose behaviour goes way beyond what is deemed appropriate in public situations. Some people say that the term ‘Karen’ is sexist, and smacks of women being expected to behave in a constrained way (for example, wind…
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Rain, rain, rain! I am getting fed up of it now. There was so much rain last week that my garden looked more like a marshland! So I am really glad to see the back of February and the onset of marvellous March! And I’m itching to get out into the garden and start preparing for this year’s crops. Hopefully the weather won’t ruin my plans! Last year, I had the most amazing results with tomatoes that I’d love to…
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Something really nasty has been going around town this February. People are dropping like flies with the flu. Or, as some suggest, it could be a new strain of respiratory infection, possibly a mutant Covid spin-off. Whatever it is, it arrived in the Collins household. I am rarely bedridden – but I was wiped out for three days. Lara got it even worse and has been out of action for eight days now – she even had to go to…
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A few weeks ago, The Times held a health summit. They were looking into the various crises in the UK right now, including obesity, unhealthy eating, long waiting lists and the ongoing aftershocks of the pandemic. When I saw it, my sceptic radar immediately began to bleep. It was not only funded by the covid vaccine company, AstraZeneca and the insurance company Vitality… But they also ‘provided evidence’. I could also immediately see that there was an underlying agenda to…
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Could a plate of cold boiled potatoes be a revolution in dieting? And what about green bananas? Well, there are some nutritional scientists who think that this type of food is nature’s answer to the problems of obesity, diabetes and gut health. The concept is based around something called ‘resistant starch’. In short, resistant starch is that which passes through the stomach and small intestine and remains undigested. Normally starch in foods like pasta, potatoes and white bread gets turned…
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