Remember to check your emergency supplies when you set your clocks March 8

It’s time to spring forward this Sunday, March 8! In addition to more light at the end of the day, (yea!) daylight saving time is the perfec...

Free Shuttle Bus Not Accessible

I spoke to the store manager of the No Frills grocery store that moved out of the downtown core in January and I asked if he could pay for t...

Village Eyecatcher

Isn't it odd how one changes one's mind about things. In the 1970's I lived in Tur Langton in Leicestershire, and just because t...

What Can Evolution Teach us About the Human Diet?

Vegetarians deserve our respect. They're usually thoughtful, conscientious people who make sacrifices for environmental and ethical rea...

Find The Fault No 2

Hallo Sailor! Not being given to hanging around dockyard gates this one took me a while. Those with maritime predilictions will get it immed...

Statistics

Ricardo just sent me a link to the British Heart Foundation statistics website . It's a goldmine. They have data on just about every ...

The Small-Head Silhouette... Smartest for Summer!

(Click on the image for a larger version.)  Source: Modern Beauty Shop, July 1949

Down at Heal's

Going on about Humbers brought to mind this little filling station. A couple of years ago I walked round here to find it painted pink, and...

June 1943 American Hairdresser on Behind the Curtain

I just found these Scans from a June 1943 American Hairdresser Magazine on Behind the Curtain . There are a lot of other neat magazine scan...

Don't Panic!

Blimey there's so much to worry about isn't there? Getting skewered on the way to the pub (or more likely coming back), getting so i...

Psyche Knot

(Click on the image for a larger version.) Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair

Figure Eight

(Click on the image for a larger version.) Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair

Cartwheel

(Click on the image for a larger version.) Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair

Cholera’s harsh toll in Zimbabwe serves as health reminder

Thanks to public health practices like sanitation, many diseases from centuries-past are rare in the industrialized world. Take cholera, for...

John Raven-Hill's Coronation

Later on I may be recruiting images for a possible book on motor cars. So, keep it to yourselves for the moment, but in the meantime I feel ...

Dietary Fiber and Mineral Availability

Health authorities tell us to eat more fiber for health, particularly whole grains, fruit and vegetables. Yet the Diet and Reinfarction Tri...

Find The Fault No 1

A recent birthday saw The Youngest Boys give me a box of reproduction puzzle cards from the 1940's called What's Wrong? They know, ...

A few thoughts on Minerals, Milling, Grains and Tubers

One of the things I've been noticing in my readings on grain processing and mineral bioavailability is that it's difficult to make w...

Shelving Storage

Modern Designer Sideboard - Storage Contemporary Storage Solution in a wide variety of finishes Dimensions: W216.2 x D46.7 x H74.2cm These s...

How to Eat Grains

Our story begins in East Africa in 1935, with two Bantu tribes called the Kikuyu and the Wakamba. Their traditional diets were mostly veget...

Don’t let a power outage leave you powerless

Take a minute to think about your everyday activities. How many of them require electricity? Now imagine your daily life without power. You ...

Topknot Coil

(Click on the image for a larger version.) Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair

Checkpoints & Gauloises

Len Deighton, (blogs passim ) is eighty this week. Read an interview here . I discovered his books in 1965, three years after The Ipcress Fi...

French Twist

(Click on the image for a larger version.) Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair

Unexpected Alphabets No 8

Stamford didn't want the railway anywhere near it at first, but when they finally succumbed in 1848 its Tudor manor architecture became ...

Classic French Roll

(Click on the image for a larger version.)  Source: The Hairdo Handbook, 1964, Chapter XVIII: Handling and Styling Long Hair This is my new ...

Paleolithic Diet Clinical Trials Part III

I'm happy to say, it's time for a new installment of the "Paleolithic Diet Clinical Trials" series. The latest study was...

Young Shortie

(Click on the images for a larger version.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, July 1949

Minnesota clinic sets record for flu shots

Today's guest blog entry is by Tricia Todd, MPH, assistant director of the Health Careers Center at the University of Minnesota. Oct. 28...

The Gold Trophy Coiffure Technique

(Click on the images for a better view.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1942

Old Git

Lot of talk this morning about what we should call elderly people. Apparently the pinko liberals are going around tut-tutting about the old ...

Going Potty

Last night was particularly cold in Ashley Towers. The giant cast iron radiators in the west wing need 'bleeding', which I think is ...

Give Her an Outdoor Coif for Summer... Molded-to-the-Breeze!

(Click on the images for a better view.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, July 1949

Nash Rambler

I just couldn't wait to share this with you. Back in November you may remember my post about the fallen ash tree on the Leicestershire ...

I Should Cocoa

Where does that rejoinder "I should cocoa" (meaning "I should jolly well think so") come from? Anyway, after all the sno...