Seeing as talking about food and water has generated more comments than anything I have ever posted before to any live journal entry, I feel it important to continue the theme of food.
My daughter when she was born was "gifted" a whole series of allergies which I hope one day she will grow out of, but you never know.
(a) cows milk - this rules out most products in the supermarkets, but with the advent of soya millk (yurk!!!) and goats milk (gag) this problem has been temporarily overcome
(b) egg white - again eggs are in most products and it will kill her should she ingest any
(c) gluten - in most supermarket products.
So me and the wife are left with purchasing products which dont contain the above which is doubly expensive and also organic food which is priced so high as to require a a second income to fund.
Ive never looked at food before since having kids, and with my wife due in the middle of June to give birth to baby no. 2, Im hoping the new arrival has no allergies.
I ought to get around to putting some images up on the journal some time.
Friday, 19 May 2006
Wednesday, 17 May 2006
Whole Grain Water?
Two little comments really, one on the state of our water supply, and the other on the so-called goodness of whole grain foods.
Water.
Those of you who dont live in the south of England will not be aware that we are in a drought zone. Our water company has banned all hose-pipes and standing pipes. Something that has always escaped me is the fact that we are an island surrounded by water, yet still we have enough drought alerts for it to be serious.
Our water supply in the London region has always been terrible, being partly based on old Victorian pipe networks that were installed over 100 years ago. It has been revealed that the pipes are worn and leaking, and the amount they leak into the soil on a daily basis is terrifyingly high. We are talking millions of gallons a day. So seeing as this poor water network has been part of London life for over 100 years, why has it taken a century to think about fixing/repairing and replacing the network. And where have 100 years of profit gone?
Whole Grain.
As part of the attempt to woo customers from one breakfast cereal to another, suddenly breakfast companies are annoucing that their foods now contain "Whole grain goodness". Now this is obviously a buzz word, because whole grain used to be taken out of the food as part of the production process of say cornflakes. Now all of a sudden they are back in with a healthy promotion campaign in the process too. So if they were always good for you, then why weren't they left in from day one?
Water.
Those of you who dont live in the south of England will not be aware that we are in a drought zone. Our water company has banned all hose-pipes and standing pipes. Something that has always escaped me is the fact that we are an island surrounded by water, yet still we have enough drought alerts for it to be serious.
Our water supply in the London region has always been terrible, being partly based on old Victorian pipe networks that were installed over 100 years ago. It has been revealed that the pipes are worn and leaking, and the amount they leak into the soil on a daily basis is terrifyingly high. We are talking millions of gallons a day. So seeing as this poor water network has been part of London life for over 100 years, why has it taken a century to think about fixing/repairing and replacing the network. And where have 100 years of profit gone?
Whole Grain.
As part of the attempt to woo customers from one breakfast cereal to another, suddenly breakfast companies are annoucing that their foods now contain "Whole grain goodness". Now this is obviously a buzz word, because whole grain used to be taken out of the food as part of the production process of say cornflakes. Now all of a sudden they are back in with a healthy promotion campaign in the process too. So if they were always good for you, then why weren't they left in from day one?
Wednesday, 10 May 2006
Working From Home for the Wrong Reason
I think it is a fallacy to think that given a chance everyone would work from home.
(a) no discipline to working at home.
(b) because of the mixture of work and hours you never really stop working, i.e. you tend to work less for longer periods.
(c) the whole point to coming to work is to get away from your domestic life to work, so therefore what you really want is no so much a home office, but an office which is exclusively yours away from home.
I am lucky on point (c) as one of the companys I work for has an office they dont use which is mine 24/7. Its there that I do my own private work as well as writing.
Well today was one of the those days when I needed to be in work, but for whatever reason (I wont bore you here - as if you aren't already yawning?) I couldnt. Thanks to remote desktops and pcAnywhere I am able to run a payroll remotely from home. Good for me!
Havent been doing much writing, but have made lots of characterisation notes for mid and end chapters.
(a) no discipline to working at home.
(b) because of the mixture of work and hours you never really stop working, i.e. you tend to work less for longer periods.
(c) the whole point to coming to work is to get away from your domestic life to work, so therefore what you really want is no so much a home office, but an office which is exclusively yours away from home.
I am lucky on point (c) as one of the companys I work for has an office they dont use which is mine 24/7. Its there that I do my own private work as well as writing.
Well today was one of the those days when I needed to be in work, but for whatever reason (I wont bore you here - as if you aren't already yawning?) I couldnt. Thanks to remote desktops and pcAnywhere I am able to run a payroll remotely from home. Good for me!
Havent been doing much writing, but have made lots of characterisation notes for mid and end chapters.
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