Greenwich Tea Time

Watch out if you're ever in a car with me and you haven't been driven across Blackheath before. The chances are I will suddenly hang...

A False Dichotomy

In the discussion section of the last post, the eternal argument about non-industrial people arose: were their lives (a) "nasty, brutis...

Start a Brush-up Course in Your Salon

(Click on images for full-size.) Source: American Hairdresser, November 1942 I love the first pic with 2 brushes.

Where's That Then? No 15

I used to visit this town often, but can't honestly remember this market place. I know there's a propensity to radically alter town ...

The Paleolithic Mind

I went to a meditation retreat this week with the Red Cedar Zen community in Bellingham. It was a good experience. Staring at a wall from...

Do You Neck?

(Click on image for a larger version.) Source: How to Find Your Man by Joe Bonomo, 1954 When I was buying makeup for my wedding, the woman w...

Long Trim

(Images link to full size versions.) Source: Practice and Science of Standard Barbering, ⓒ 1938-1958

What to do when your house floods: A real-life preparedness tale

For Christy of Arlington, Va., one late night last April was especially memorable. Awaking unexpectedly in the middle of the night, Christy ...

Principles of Men's Hair Styling

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

Bankety Bank

Caught in the headlights returning home on Tuesday night. I've never seen this sign before, and can only assume it was meant, along with...

Case for Efficiency

(Click on images for larger size.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, January 1943

Where's That Then? No 14

What can I say? Or as Only Daughter said on the phone at half past eight this morning "Never mind 'Where's That Then' what ...

Book Review: S.P.E.E.D.

This book was sent to me by Matt Schoeneberger, who co-authored it with Jeff Thiboutot. Both have master's degrees in exercise science ...

The Shining

I think that the first time I heard of the kiwi, or indeed saw its picture, was on the eponymous boot polish tin. Although not English in or...

Follow Natural Lines

(Click on images to enlarge.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, April 1942

One-stop shopping for flu shot this fall: Seasonal flu vaccine formula to include H1N1 flu strain

Good news for people who grew tired of trying to track down both H1N1 and seasonal flu shots last year: Federal and global health officials ...

Storms a timely reminder: Check your emergency stockpile with March 14 clock change

If you had to stay in your home for six days without going out for food, toilet paper or other supplies, how would you fare? For residents i...

Corn Oil and Cancer?

The benefits of corn oil keep rolling in. In a new study by Stephen Freedland's group at Duke, feeding mice a diet rich in butter and l...

Public Health Update 2/25/10

Maine CDC/DHHS Public Health Update February 25, 2010 Travel-related Disease Conditions Maine CDC has investigated multiple cases of travel-...

Where's That Then No 13

A few years ago I turned up here early on a hot summer's evening. Folk were cooking suppers on boats, and the strains of the Archer'...

Magnesium and Insulin Sensitivity

From a paper based on US NHANES nutrition and health survey data ( 1 ): During 1999–2000, the diet of a large proportion of the U.S. popula...

Lindeberg on Obesity

I'm currently reading Dr. Staffan Lindeberg's magnum opus Food and Western Disease , recently published in English for the first tim...

More Room At The Inn

As an addendum to the last post, I give you The Wheel & Compass public house at Weston by Welland. Not just because they serve an excell...

Ruff 'n Fluff... a Practical Cut for the Feather Bob

(Click on the images to view them in all their full-size glory!) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, June 1942

Railway Echo No 13

It looks plain and ordinary, a house out in the countryside, probably built in the 1970s. Until one looks more closely at the right hand sid...

Get Ready Mailbag: If I am over 65, should I get the H1N1 flu vaccine?

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...

Where's That Then? No 12

The English Counties Illustrated is an Odhams book. Once so ubiquitous, these were cheaply produced volumes and usually printed in their hu...

Sunday Times

Please forgive two postings on one day; but I am aware that I've been a bit dilatory in bringing you scenes from Unmitigated England rec...

Eyecatching Model

Sharp-eyed viewers will probably recognise these buildings from a painting in Unmitigated England . They are without doubt my favourite mode...

It’s not too late to protect your children and family from H1N1 flu

Just before last Halloween, 7-year-old Trevor Lin of Clifton Park, N.Y., began showing symptoms of a mild cough, according to his father, He...

Public Health Update 2/12/10

Maine CDC/DHHS Public Health Update February 12, 2010 Influenza Activity in Maine and the US H1N1 activity continues in Maine as well as acr...

Now... More Waves! (Cover Girls)

(Click on images for the full-size versions.) Source: Modern Beauty Shop, January 1943

Flu Vaccine Available at Basketball State Championships

Flu clinics will be held at the Maine Principal’s Association high school basketball tournament in Augusta. Clinics will be held February 16...

Carrot Artery

My neighbour on the adjoining estate has asked me to plug his new venture at the Goldmark Gallery in the market town of Uppingham. Unmitiga...