Congratulations to Health Secretary Wes Streeting for deploying extra health teams to some of our most deprived areas. Perhaps he heard my talk last week (scroll to 1 hr32mins for 20 minutes of ideas). Now we need the Chancellor plus…
Last Saturday was International Women’s Day and I was speaking at a worldwide online conference organised by the World Association for Sustainable Development (Queen Mary University of London). The 20 minute talk is recorded at: (scroll through to 1…
John Steinbeck’s “A Russian Journal” is definitely worth the time. He captures Ukraine soon after WWII, the destruction of Stalingrad, the attitudes of Americans and Russians towards each other (both as suspicious as each other and equally ill-informed). Lovely relaxed…
What holds women back worldwide? Hot topics: Balancing work and family, working in research and agriculture, the risks of disability, gender equality and empowerment. Take some time for yourself, put your feet up and join our international conference at 1030…
I thought I’d share last week’s fun and games with you to offer a smile: Will (another local blind veteran), Lesley with whom I joined the WRNS nearly 48 years ago plus Sally (an even older friend) were all here. …
Clear-out: discovered this bag actually named and dated nearly 50 years ago! How’s that for hoarding and very lax cupboard-discipline? Over-inspired to make braised red cabbage last week. Huge vegetable needed lots of apples, onions, spices and more so massive…
Delicious hot and excellent cold. No idea how much game (a bag of venison and another of mixed) plus sausage meat to line the hot-water pastry and there was a pie weighing in at about 5kg! It really took no…
Fellow blind veteran and I had a happy morning creating 20 delicious apple cakes. Although Will is a dab hand in the kitchen after his catering training in the Territorial Army, cakes were a different venture. We used my tried-and-tested…
Just bought a fabulous new washing machine from a very famous German manufacturer. Huge capacity and wonderful washing. But… Absolutely appalling controls. Very sensitive touch buttons that are so easy to activate inadvertently when brushing past the machine, emptying it…
The birthday balloon remains banished to the downstairs loo. After all these weeks, the helium is struggling. I learned, years ago, of the consequences of free-wheeling balloons: sensors triggered; alarm goes off; police with dogs arrive! Ever since, as much…
