The Queen's Breakfast

Not getting out much this week, as you can see. Last night I sat staring into the middle distance pondering my sins and I started to look i...

Swine Hunt

Unmitigated England doesn't normally get involved in current affairs, usually restricting itself to wanting to know why the 8.30 to Ever...

La importancia de tener las vacunas al día

Today's blog entry is an article by Diego Chaves-Gnecco MD, MPH, SALUD PARA NIÑOS Program Director & Founder in honor of National In...

Find The Fault No 10

I don't know anything about polar bears either really. It's all hearsay, like they can smell you from five hundred miles away and th...

Alexanders The Great

Every time I drive into Norfolk at this time of the year I see these plants rearing up in great clumps of efflorescence on the verges as I n...

Drene Presents Gracious Lady

(Click on the images to see larger versions.) Source: American Hairdresser, June 1946

Popular Hairstyles for Young Girls

(Click on the images to get a better view.) Source: Practice and Science of Standard Barbering, ⓒ 1938-1958

Basic Short Cut for Fine Textures

(As usual, click on the images to open larger versions in new windows.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, July 1949

Nutrition and Infectious Disease

Dr. Edward Mellanby's book Nutrition and Disease contains a chapter titled "Nutrition and Infection". It begins: There is g...

The latest on swine flu

If you've been following recent news you may have heard about something called swine flu. Swine influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory ...

Get Ready Mailbag: Should I stay home if I have the flu?

Welcome to another installment of the Get Ready Mailbag, when we take time to answer questions sent our way by readers like you. Have a ques...

Lost by Design 1

Wall's Ice Cream. It's what we had to go with our cling peaches for Sunday tea. A treat in the shape of a cardboard box bought from ...

Classic Room Wallpapers 2011 design

Thibaut(pronounced Tee-Bo) is a wallpaper design firm in USA established in 1886 (yep!). We had a chance to browse their collection of some ...

Classic Room Wallpapers

Classic Room Wallpapers

Reading Nooks - Set

Reading nooks are those nice little nooks in your home where you don’t mind spending a whole day buried up reading a novel or catching up on...

Bookshelves As Room Focus

we lay more emphasis on how shelves can effectively become the focus of the room. The collections shown below are from two Italian makers: M...