Beekeeping
You can’t imagine all the bits of kit that beekeepers “need”. There are sheds of the stuff and it creeps into the house, the kitchen, the studio and all over the garden. The solar “wax-melter” is the latest and now…
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It could be You …
… or your partner, your child, another family member (young or old), your friend, a co-worker and many more. When 1-in-4 working age people have life-changing health conditions, everyone needs to understand and help. One early reviewer of the new…
Coming soon: It could be You …
When at least 1-in-4 of us will have a life-changing, disabling health condition, my new book might offer some practical help. I’ve spent the last three years (not counting time in hospital!) trying to pull together the thoughts, experiences and…
Check it out: lots out there.
I’m talking about ticks (the sort that burrow under your skin and carry Lymes Disease). One managed to grab into the sous chef. Blind person useless at picking out the carcase remains so he resorted to excellent neighbour but tiny…
Radio Victory gig.
Grab a cup of coffee and catch this short interview on Thursday 15 May at about 1015. The link is: If you too live in the Portsmouth area, it is also available on DAB radio. I was talking…
Child benefit info from HMRC
Dear customer, If you have employees wi…
Living VE Day Memorial
Doug Glading presenting the Victory in Europe commemorative book to Penny Melville-Brown at the historic Catisfield memorial hall. Neighbours living in Catisfield, on the outskirts of Fareham, are doubly remembering their local predecessors who gave their…
Finished all your eggs yet?
Have to confess that the main one is a goner but still quite a few left on the Easter Simnel cake. The Bank Holiday lunch was a great success thanks to the contributions of friends. Joan and Jeff brought inspiring…
Doctors making it easier to get in touch?
At last, someone else has realised that lots of us (with disabilities, who are older, from ethnic minorities, with limited English or just awful internet connections) have huge problems contacting our GPs when they increasingly rely on “digital”. The Equality…
Easter bonnet or crash helmet?
Neither! And you should be ashamed of not recognising a skep-in-the-making. This weekend gone was the National Bee convention held at Harper Adams University in darkest Shropshire. The sous-chef spent a day working on the microscope: pollen and dissected…