Category: Miscellaneous

Next time you fret about road-works…

…remember, it could be worse. From a news-snippet dt 15th Apr ’09 HOLLOWAY ROAD was today named and shamed as London’s most dug-up street. The north London highway – just around the corner from...

Eating red meat may be really bad for you…

From a recent report, titled “Eating Red Meat May Boost Death Risk“: Men and women who eat higher amounts of red meat and processed meat have a higher risk of dying from cancer, heart...

Weekend Reading – Served Differently

I am experimenting with a different reading format this weekend…dispensing with extracts…(and) instead letting you *pick and choose* from a few links on different topics… Pl. let me know what you think of this…As some of...

Why no time for blogging only*

Long time readers of this blog must have noticed that although I am posting a lot more articles than before, the number of “original” posts (i.e. written by me) has been dwindling over the...

Spare a thought for these babies…

Several weeks ago, I came across a post by BarbarIndian on the unusually large number of accidents that were being reported in the media about babies being burnt alive in hospitals – specifically due to...