Saturday Night Special – Chicken and Chorizo Paella

The sous chef took over the kitchen tonight. On the menu was this very easy Chicken and Chorizo Paella. With the help of Curtis Stone on the iPad, it turned out a cracker. Leftovers for Sunday lunch. pure tera, bhang cbd spray review, can you fly with cbd oil tsa, cbd...

The Little Wolf and The Three Bad Pigs

The Wolf is boiled alive. Self defense? After all, two houses had already been blown down. Or an elaborate insurance fraud triggered by the GFC? Occupy FairyTaleLand. How does the Guardian report news in the Social Media age. This is round one of a very expensive...

Hidden in Plain View

Our senses are constantly processing sights, sounds, smells and touch. Most of these do not reach our consciousness. We only become aware of some of the inputs that pass through our brain. How do we decide what to pay attention to? On Feb 17th this year, psychologist...

Google Doodle – Happy Birthday Heinrich Hertz

The Google Doodle today is in honour of Heinrich Hertz, who would have been celebrating his 155th birthday  – if he hadn’t died from Wegener’s granulomatosis in 1894, or something else since then. Hertz was the first to conclusively prove the...

Giving up Coffee for Lent?

Tomorrow is Ash Wedneday. Are you giving up coffee for Lent? No. Neither am I. There is good evidence that caffeine provides a stimulus to mental alertness.  It also acts as a legal performance enhancer for sports – the AIS has a guide to it use. ...

Waiting Room or Patient’s Lounge

Brunswick Heads Medical Centre doesn’t have a “Waiting Room”. They have a “Patient’s Lounge”. Stealing Shamelessly, we’ve recently added a TV and a couch to ‘our lounge’. We have also consulted with the young...