Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week Two Hundred And Seventy
Monday Good morning, people. Wow, the sun is out this morning for a change, but it’s still bloody cold. I was not outside for very long, and I don’t intend to be outside much more [more…]
Health
Health
Sort Out Yer Glutes!
Sort out yer glutes! Thus spake my sports physio after I turned up in his surgery with chronic back pain, like I couldn’t get out of bed without screaming. Now he’s good, so good in [more…]
Book Review
‘Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?’ By Chris van Tulleken
Ultra-Processed Foods have been getting a lot more press recently and I’d been wanting to know more about the subject beyond the few articles I’d read and this book seemed as good as any. The [more…]
Arts
A View From The Greenhouse; Check Your White Privilege….Innit?
The world turns Postaliers and life moves on apace. This time of year is fraught with many and various dangers though, as we negotiate our way from heatwave to heatwave and through the resultant “Catastrophic [more…]
Cooking
New Adventures in Low Carb – Part 3
As most Puffins will know (based on my incessant posting of food photos), I have been on a keto/low-carb journey. The 24th of July marked the first anniversary of my adventure, so I thought I’d [more…]
Culture
A View From The Greenhouse; Bath, A Chance Encounter, Long “Covid”
It’s been a month now since I last posted from the greenhouse, although, somewhat thankfully, it hasn’t been a month since I visited it. With the arrival of spring we see ewes and lambs arriving [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Part Seven
Last time on Nostalgia Album we became concerned about Ernestine, my great-aunt by marriage, who at first glance had moved on, relocating to Lancaster, after her husband had been killed in the First War (as [more…]
Cooking
New Adventures in Low Carb, Part Two
In my previous article I explained how switching to a low-carb diet has life-changing health benefits. It’s been several months since I started a keto diet (very low-carb), so I thought I’d give Puffins an [more…]
Engineering
Sleep Apnoea, “What a load of CPAP!”
“You, you may not know this about me but years ago I was diagnosed with a sleep disorder” – William Shatner Pronounced “Sleep ap knee ah”. I remember an episode of the Sopranos from 2000 [more…]