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Nov 19, 20235 min read
FARMER JON, A WILTSHIRE TREASURE
On looking for a caring and compassionate place in which our father could rest his dear tired bones on discharge from hospital, my sister...
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no3photography
Nov 18, 202311 min read
PATRICK WILLIAMS (1933-2023): NOW HE IS DEAD
In Berlin, 2016 Now that he is dead, I don’t have to concern myself any more about his dementia, his health, do I? It is over and all I...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20224 min read
LET FOOD BE THY MEDICINE
I originally wrote a blog entitled Nutrition and the G-Word, and I was told by the site builder that it was a 36 minute read! I didn't...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20225 min read
HERE IS WHY (Part Two)
Not long before our (unplanned) pregnancy we had become acquainted with the idea of 'attachment parenting'. And we'd liked it! The...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20228 min read
THE BRAIN AND NURTURE (Part Three)
The brain, though! The HQ, enabling rationality, intellect, decision-making, emotion, creativity, survival, life! We have a triune brain....
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20224 min read
THE G-WORD (Part Four)
God-given? Where, if at all, does God come into this? Do you believe in God? Do I? Is my openness to the possibility of God's...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 202213 min read
TO BE FULLY HUMAN (Part Five)
Being human. Do we know what it actually is to be fully, optimally human? We are very willing to haul out the rather reductive "Oh, it's...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20222 min read
THRIVING VS EXISTING (Part Six)
I thrived on the fresh simple food (meat, fish, vegetables, milk, butter, lard, eggs), my mother cooked for our family. My health and...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20222 min read
TAKE ME TO THE RED BARN (Part Seven)
These simple but incredibly effective dietary measures can be seen as radical ‘first aid’ for bodies which, instead of being treated as...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20223 min read
BIRTH, BREASTFEEDING AND BEYOND (Part Eight)
A person's journey into physical and mental health starts with the mother's diet and lifestyle before and during gestation. After birth,...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20222 min read
MENTAL ILLNESS (Part Nine)
Certainly it appears that more serious mental illness, from depression to bipolar and schizophrenia, may be alleviated or eliminated if...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20223 min read
LEARNED HELPLESSNESS (Part Ten)
(a bit challenging, this one) Our reliance on the NHS and our invariably unquestioning demand for pharmaceutical solutions leads us even...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20224 min read
SPEAKING OF OUR ELDERS (Part Eleven)
... AND CARE HOMES We saw, through the two torturous years of lockdown, how our elders suffered. Care homes in particular became a very...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20221 min read
THE WAY AHEAD? (Part Twelve)
My raison d'etre for writing this piece is that I believe we might re-think our assumptions, our convenient acquiescence to the...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20225 min read
WE DO NOT HAVE TO WAIT! (Part Thirteen)
My father was diagnosed with dementia with Lewy Bodies during 'lockdown' in 2021. We were informed by his doctor of the untreatable...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20222 min read
AUTOPHAGY (Part Fourteen)
AN A-WORD! Here's an A-word! It is a word I had never encountered before my father became ill. It is 'autophagy'. And it strikes me...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20222 min read
GENETICS & CERVANTES (Part Fifteen)
As I said earlier, I have three aunties and one precious father diagnosed with forms of dementia. Another of their sisters and their...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20222 min read
RESOURCES (Part Sixteen)
Not everyone can afford to consult a functional medicine practitioner or nutritionist. But there are umpteen generous and qualified...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20222 min read
A REALLY USEFUL RESET (Part Seventeen)
In A General Theory of Love, the authors expressed their concern that, as poor nurturing and neglect increases, and as access to...
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no3photography
Dec 14, 20221 min read
HOMO SPIRITUS (Part Eighteen)
There is a proverb: cleanliness is next to Godliness. And in a well-nurtured, well-nourished and well-maintained body, perhaps Godliness...
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