Going on Holiday

Tweet Ok, just for a few days and only as exotic as deepest Somerset, but it feels like a real treat. I have a novel to read on the train (yet more Georgette Heyer) and no plans for when I get there except spending time with my daughter and visiting the nearby town/village where my [...]

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Chips and dip recipes

Tweet It was such a treat earlier this week meeting an interesting crowd of people in realFOODS Health Food Shop in Edinburgh and presenting some of what I know about Raw and Living Foods. Click on photos to enlarge. I’m being asked for my recipes, so here goes. For the corn chips you need a [...]

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Wearing blinkers can be very helpful

Tweet ‘Blinkered’ is often used in a negative sense, that of not being able to see the whole picture. But imagine a busy road pre the days of cars. Busy narrow roads with carts, carriages and people on horseback. With all the noise and confusion around perhaps the horses liked their blinkers so they were [...]

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I like kelp after all!!

Tweet I tried to like the brown rubbery granules of kelp from health food shops a few years ago and never really liked it except well-disguised in soup. Then I was reminded recently that kelp has different beneficial qualities from other seaweeds such as dulse and thought I should try again. Was that in my [...]

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The Art of Networking

Tweet In a nutshell, my advice about networking is to enjoy yourself and have really interesting and honest conversations with whoever you bump into, about whatever comes up. When I look back through my networking experiences the interesting opportunities that have been just right for me have not come from giving a good sales pitch [...]

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Workshops Seminars Trainings Classes… what’s the difference?

Tweet The quick answer is that there may not be much difference and what is called one thing in one neck of the woods may be called something quite different in a different context. In my mind a WORKSHOP is basically active and participatory. The participants do things as well as listening to the leader/trainer/teacher. [...]

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A delicate and delightful summer drink

Tweet Right now it is warm and sunny and the woods and hedges are full of big white bunches of elder flowers. Pick some and take them home. If I can get my camera sorted soon I’ll add in a photo here for identification. Quantities are not important for this. Cut the tiny bunches from [...]

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