To Vaccinate or not to vaccinate?

The winter months are difficult. It’s cold, it rains, you barely see daylight during the working week, and then as if that weren’t enough, there’s the flu. Miserable, aching, snivelling flu. Having been a recent  victim of this debilitating illness I took myself off to my GP surgery yesterday to get the flu jab. I … Continue reading “To Vaccinate or not to vaccinate?”

Fantastic scheme getting children learning about nature and growing their own fruit and vegetables

I remember back when I was a wee lass, going on a school geography trip when one of my class mates triumphantly declared that they had discovered a ‘cows nest’ because they had found a milk bottle under a hedge. How could any one honestly think that milk came out of a cow already in … Continue reading “Fantastic scheme getting children learning about nature and growing their own fruit and vegetables”

The most effective way to get rid of head lice

A new strain of head lice that seem impervious to age old de-licing methods has emerged! If you think its relatively easy to get rid of these little critters with a quick dose of any old “guaranteed results” solution, you are horribly mistaken. Unfortunately its now a more arduous task with no quick fix, but … Continue reading “The most effective way to get rid of head lice”