This week, Born This Day celebrates the birthday of Dannii Minogue – Kylie Minogue’s younger sister – who was born on 20 October 1971. Although Dannii Minogue first became known [...]
Archive for November 30th, 2011
The Paleo Diet – Eating Like a Caveman
Ever since the gastroenterologist Walter Voegtlin coined the phase Paleolithic diet, people have been copying the diets of caveman in an attempt to eat healthier and lose weight. Foods can be either hunted and fished, such as meat, offal and seafood, or gathered, such as eggs, fruit, nuts, seeds, vegetables, mushrooms, herbs and spices. In [...]
Flexible Crystals in the Blood
With crystals in the news thanks to the award of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Dan Shechtman for his 1982 discovery of quasicrystals, it is quite timely that I was writing about another crystalline discovery just before the announcement. This one is from US chemist George Richter-Addo of the University of Oklahoma and [...]
Ask City Connect
How to Speak Up Whilst Dining Out
Dear Agony Uncle,
I recently visited a local restaurant with a good reputation for food and service—usually a relaxed atmosphere and easy to keep one’s head down—however, for a party of [...]
Style
A/W ’11 – Wardrobe Pieces To Buy
This season is all about forties glamour, the return to the seventies, tartan, continuing with colour blocking and of course prints!
If you don’t fancy being a slave to fashion but [...]
Relationships
Birthday Expectations
Today is my birthday but what is it about a birthday that brings out the diva in us girls? It’s all about me, me, me for 24 hours, the world is mine and I shall [...]
