A delightful real life story by Gina Butler, one of our therapists in support of our guys in the forces:
“Last week I was in West London attending a conference. While I was in the airport, returning home, I heard several people behind me beginning to clap and cheer.
I immediately turned around and witnessed one of the [...]
National Walk to Work Week is from 27th April to 1st May. If you can’t walk all the way to work, why not park the car or get off the bus or train a bit earlier and walk the rest of the way.
Walking to work is a great way to exercise in the fresh air. Give it a [...]
Just looking at the health section on Brentwood’s web site and discovered that the whole Borough has been established as a ‘Healthy Living Centre.’ What a superb concept! This is explained as follows:
”Healthy Living Centres have generally been associated with specific centres or buildings with funding available through the New Opportunities Fund. The intention in Brentwood is [...]
Foxes and birds often scavenge for food, but this short-tailed vole got more than he bargained for when he visited our garden in January.
A strong wind blew open our food waste bin and somehow this tiny rodent managed to get in and snack on our leftovers. Lucky our cats weren’t about; he would have made a [...]
In the August of 2008, my husband was sitting quietly in the lounge. It was a mild evening, the back door was open allowing our cats to wander freely without having to negotiate the cat flap. I returned home at 10 pm and was greeted in the hall way by a white-faced and shaking Glen.
“I’ve just had a real fright,” [...]
In spite of lots of opposition, it seems as if an incinerator will be built on Rivenhall Airfield. To make the plant viable, this will include bringing in tonnes of waste from outside Essex. The waste site as incinerator application is going to committee on Friday 24th April and a peacefull protest on the steps of County [...]
Do you have too much land and would be happy for someone else to share it with you and grow some fruit and veg - that you could enjoy too?
Or would you like to grow your own fruit and veg but don’t have the space?
Or perhaps you just have some spare time on your hands [...]
A novel scheme to bring new life to old or unwanted bicycles is being officially launched in Southend-on-Sea on Saturday 18th April. This is the Re Cycle Project - a bicycle recycling scheme being developed as part of Southend’s Cycling Town status, granted by Cycle England.
The scheme aims to recycle lost, stolen - not claimed [...]
Good news: The Food Standards Agency (FSA) Board have rejected a proposal to change the nutrient profiling model used to decide which foods are healthy enough to be advertised during children’s TV programming, and will advise government Ministers accordingly.
The Children’s Food Campaign welcomes the advice, which if accepted by Ministers, will ensure that foods such [...]
Are you concerned about genetically engineered food products? Please read the following information from Greenpeace and sign the petition:
GE Rice
Stand up for your rice! Sign the petition
Dear friends,
The world’s most important staple food is under threat and we need your help urgently.
Sign the petition
Rice is daily food for half of the global population. It has [...]