HOUSE PRICES GO BOTH UP AND DOWN

I originally wrote this post back in 2007, so a lot of the examples and dates are a bit old now – with the benefit of hindsight, it was a bit premature, but still worth keeping in mind in 2022! House prices go both up and down When water is boiling in a jug, the […]

SOME REAL BICYCLE COURIERS

The first bike couriers – 1908-1917 Many years ago, but not quite this far back, I was a bicycle courier myself. As a student who was into bicycle racing it was pretty cool. But it was also as dangerous as hell. One lunch time I clipped a bus in busy traffic, managed to bounce off […]

FLUORIDE

Fluoride – our water supply is being poisoned There are so many myths and assumptions surrounding putting fluoride in water that in a heavily fluoridated country like New Zealand, many people go into a state of incredulous disbelief if they are told that our water supply is being poisoned. While the issue of whether fluoride […]

VACCINATION

VACCINATIONS –Potentially lethal and totally ineffective. “Belief in immunization is a form of delusional insanity”- Dr Herbert Shelton Supporters of vaccinations believe that they are for the greater good; that parents who choose not to vaccinate are selfish, and a threat to other people’s children. But for a public health policy to be for the […]

The invention of the performance tampon

THROBBING GRISTLE REVISITED Back in 1975 a band was formed in England that would change the face of music. I’m not talking here about The Sex Pistols or The Clash. I mean Throbbing Gristle. They didn’t invent punk, heavy metal, or ska. They invented performance tampon. (officially they are credited with inventing Industrial Music, but […]

CYCLE SERVICES – THE NEWSLETTERS

GIVE ME CYCLE SERVICES NEWSLETTERS! The original Cycle Services Newsletters are all still online HERE – but this is going to be one huge blog post with the whole lot,  just because modern searching tends to favour having a truckload of stuff on one webpage, and we don’t give a toss about bandwidth anymore, so […]

EARTHING

  An aspect of healthy primitive cultures that is seldom discussed, is that they had regular contact with the ground. They had bare feet, or worked with bare hands in the earth, or lived in dirt floored houses. Often all three. If they wore shoes they were generally leather soled, which are electrically conductive if […]

FOOD

FOOD 101 – Some Basics Of Eating Well We all have to start somewhere, and while some people who know their stuff are probably going to think this is all a bit simplistic, my aim here is to get people who don’t know their stuff to start paying more attention! The no references aspect is […]