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An English Deference

Just to bring my short Tony Meeuwissen season to an end (got to get out in the fresh air) I give you The English Difference . The cover was ...

Kentucky program helps vulnerable populations prepare

As a reader of this blog, you're already a few steps ahead of the game when it comes to preparing for pandemic flu. You have access to a...

Billy Willy

Since I and a perceptive commentator have been going on about how this Penguin book jacket has achieved iconic status in our lives, I though...

Snuggle Down

Rifling through the Ashley Archive for something Eastery I came across this illustration from an ad. for ICI Terylene Fillings for duvets. O...

Thoughts on Obesity, Part I

From the US Centers for Disease Control website : Since the mid-seventies, the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased sharply...

A Picture for Lily

Lily isn't her real name. In fact I never knew it. She was a lovely old lady (at a guess I would think nearly ninety) who yesterday afte...

Say Hello to the Kuna

For those of you who haven't been reading the comments, we've been having a spirited discussion about the diet and health of hunter-...

Real Food III: Yogurt

Fermented milk is regarded by many cultures as a delicious health food. It has cropped up all over the world in different forms: kefir from...

Tanked Up

This isn't what you'd expect to come across on a very muddy walk in remote countryside, but it happened this afternoon. I am under p...

Improving Fuel Economy

OK, you know driving isn't good for the environment, but you're going to do it anyway. Here's how to substantially increase you...

Be an advocate for disease prevention

Not enough Americans have access to lifesaving vaccines. Thirty-three percent of kids younger than age 3 don't receive all of their chil...

Pregnancy and pandemics: One more reason to plan ahead

You're pregnant. Your feet hurt, none of your clothes fit. You've made 11 trips to the bathroom already and it's not even noon. ...

Convenience Store Survival Training

I was on the road yesterday driving to a county court to defend myself (unsuccessfully) against a speeding ticket. I reluctantly stopped in...

Two Tons of Steel

While I was waiting for the bus one morning, I decided I'd count cars to see how many were single-occupancy vs. two or more. I came up ...

Ruddles County

Please forgive me if you know the story of why this pub is called The Jackson Stops and has a white horse on the sign, but it's always w...

Rocks 'n' Rolls

A while ago Amey Rail asked me to go and photograph their railway track maintenance equipment. The first was somewhere between Newbury and T...

Brownie Points

Apart from being my homage to Kim Sayer's beautiful book Dinky Toys , this blog is also an 'In Memoriam' for the fact that Koda...

Rubber Souls

This is all that's left of the Dainite Mills in Market Harborough. There were two of these High Victorian buildings due to be conserved,...

The French Paradox

According to the World Health Organization, 82 out of every 100,000 French men between ages 35 and 74 died as a result of cardiovascular dis...

Real Food II: Vinaigrette

Store-bought salad dressing is a crime against humanity. 'Ranch', '1000 Island' and other industrial monstrosities are a goo...

A Kick in the Privates

This isn't a pretty picture, and it isn't meant to be. Just below the village of Stoke Dry in Rutland is the Eyebrook Reservoir, for...

Passing the Thyme

You may remember I got overly emotional about the disappearance of the Norfolk Stuffing Mix packet ( Remembrance of Tins Past 26/2/08). Thi...

Superstimuli

During the 1940s and 50s, an Austrian psychologist named Konrad Lorenz studied the behavioral patterns of geese. One of the things he observ...

Cold or flu? Learn which is bugging you

Your throat is scratchy. Your nose is stuffy. You're pretty sure you're coming down with the flu. Or is it just another nasty cold? ...

Suspending Belief

I am currently being kept out of trouble by photographing and writing a book on engineering-reliant structures in Britain, for a firm of civ...

Real Food I: Soup Stock

Making soup stock is a common practice in cultures throughout the world. It's a way of maximizing the value, nutrition and flavor of fo...

Reclaiming Food

We, as individuals, are gradually losing control of our food. For the majority of human existence, we have been in more or less full control...

All kids ages 6 months and up should get their flu shots, panel recommends

All kids ages 6 months and up, from teething toddlers to texting-happy teens, should receive an annual flu shot, according to a recommendati...

A Drive in the Country

No, honestly, I'm not going to go on about cars again. Well, not very much. Here we have the 1952 Motor Show Number of Country Life , t...

Down Rover!

Right, I just need to get this out of the way. The Rover 3-Litre saloon is the Unmitigated English motor car. I can't even start to tel...

Kitchen Confidential

My cottage is what estate agents used to call 'bijou'. Apart from certain crab-like manouevres required to go from room to room upst...

Genetics and Disease

There is a lot of confusion surrounding the role of genetics in health. It seems like every day the media have a new story about gene X or ...

Welcome

Yes, I'm finally diving headfirst into blog-land. Welcome to the blog section of Whole Health Source. This blog will be a collection of...

Sepia-Toned Baking

Could this take its place as the Unmitigated Cook Book? I was reminded of its existence in the Ashley Archive this morning when my sister-in...

Sunday Palate

I couldn't resist this. A Sunday morning coloured abstract in Market Harborough, speaking for itself. Of course I do have to say that it...

U.S. Pandemic preparedness: Health protection or civil liberties violation?

If there is a flu pandemic or other widespread outbreak of infectious disease in the United States, the federal government has plans ready t...

Off the Wall

Always prohibitively expensive to buy, vitreous enamel signs are the brilliantly colourful 'Street Jewellery' of the English scene. ...

Pump and Circumstance

An unmitigated disaster of a day out on the Fens. I should have believed the BBC forecast for once and stayed at home, instead of disconsola...