It’s June and, in the UK, that means party-time. June has always been the month of weddings, big parties, Ascot, Wimbledon, Henley Royal Regatta and so on. This year – in my household – June has featured a celebratory bash every weekend, with several more during the week as my daughters celebrate the end of…
WHY WE’RE NOT DOING DRY JANUARY (AND MAYBE WE SHOULD)
Are you doing Dry January? If so, well done – and how’s it going? Let us know – I hope you’re feeling great. Annabel and I aren’t doing it – more on our age-well reasons for having the occasional glass of wine below. But some compelling evidence for giving up the booze altogether was published…
SMOOTHIES, SMOOTHIES, SMOOTHIES
I came late to the smoothie craze. In fact, by the time I’d really noticed it is a thing, doctors and nutritionists were warning us off them – citing sugar spikes and rotting teeth as payback for too many fruit-filled smoothies. If only I could make my own, I sighed, and pack in some veg,…
BUSTING COLDS AND BUILDING IMMUNITY
There are a lot of colds around at the moment, aren’t there? Virtually everyone I know has had the sniffles in recent weeks, including me. I’ve always been very prone to colds: in my teens and twenties I considered it a good month if I didn’t get one. Since I started eating more healthily (thank…
