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...