Like everyone else no doubt, I’ve been struggling to believe, let alone accept, what is currently going on in our world. It feels so surreal or even at times as if we are in some futuristic novel. Yet it is very real and it is happening now. So, whether we […]
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Be safe, listen to the experts and behave responsibly As I write this article, I am conscious of how the current Covid -19 pandemic, is even affecting this very article. The editor of the West Cork People, Mary O’Brien, communicated to us that this month’s edition, was to be only […]
I’ve been holed up with a box of lemons – literally. I inherited an entire box when we closed the shop this week because of the Coronavirus and have been merrily making my way through it ever since. I have a big kilner jar of pickled lemons, or should I […]
As a new gardening season starts, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at just how sustainable gardening and the plant growing industry is. With the current issues of global warming, use of fossil fuels and plastic, I feel it is up to us all to question […]
I had hoped that by now I would be writing about how well my garden was looking, after I had cleaned it all up, mulched and prepared it for planting. However, given the atrocious weather we have endured for practically the whole of February, nothing much has changed. The ground […]
Recently, I’ve become very interested in the detail of how CBD is extracted and measured, (lots of chemistry, HPLC columns and frankly processes I don’t fully understand!). This got me thinking about where CBD comes from and whether there are more natural forms of these compounds available. I came across […]