Do you remember being told this in the early schooldays, but why? — Remember when you first started those early days of school? I was forever being told to leave an apple for my teacher at the end of the day. It seems that, according to Jamie Kenney, in The Takeout, ‘… as far as anybody can tell, the origin of American schoolchildren…

Fed up with cramming towels and bed linen into small spaces? — Until I started working for a private hospital a few years back, I was forever getting flustered putting the bed linen and towels away neatly, after having slaved away for hours, ironing them, at home. Cramming them all into the tiny linen cupboard. Only to come out crumpled and looking…

What is Telomerase and would you like to live forever? Hmm, maybe if you are a lobster… — Telomerase or Telomeres are distinctive structures found at the ends of our own chromosomes. Chromosomes are threadlike structures made of protein and a single molecule of DNA that serve to carry the genomic information from cell to cell. In plants and animals (including humans), chromosomes reside in the nucleus of…

My grandson knows exactly how to turn my desktop off🤣. — I never thought anything about this until the other day. My one-year-old grandson decided he’d try waddling into my computer room whilst I was typing on it. Me? Smiling because he simply wanted to come and get a cuddle from me and see what I was doing. Ahh, how cute…

You can never win by buying glasses. Get glasses on prescription, they break, buy them from a pharmacy, they break. Someone, please, design stronger glasses. — It can’t be that hard, surely? Really? If Deepsea divers can have see-through protective face plates capable of withstanding vast water pressures, and astronauts can have helmet visors shielding them from the extremes of temperatures out there in space then, how damned difficult is it for opticians just to make…

Why throw excess food away when you can freeze it easily — How many of us spend hours preparing a wholesome, fresh, and hot meal for the family, only to be faced with what looks like, a mountain avalanche has just occurred, left on the plates? With prices as they are today, who can afford to throw the remains into the food…

When does a newborn ever make their entrance into the world on time? — Have you ever given more than a passing thought at why human babies take 40 weeks before they are ready to make their appearance into this world?

Commonly known more widely as vitamin B12. Do you know what it does, where you can find it, and what can happen if you don’t have enough? Read on to discover more — After three decades of psychiatric nursing experience, I have easily become conversant with the facts surrounding Cobalamin. Generally speaking, this is simply known commonly as vitamin B12. Why is this vitamin so important for us then?

How fair is it for a 1-year-old to be administered four injections in one day really? — Just take a minute to look at this picture. What do you see? How many babies smile like that during a jab? In my experience as both a nurse and a parent… not many do. Every parent knows that babies' memory retention & recall starts off as limited, particularly during…