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plus ça change

I was going to make today’s post a diatribe about the iniquities of our leaders and the wickedness being perpetrated in Syria but quite frankly, I believe that my poor readers need a break from contemplating the parlous state of human interactions. I am no peacenik, in fact I’m notorious for wading into battle when […]

Ooh, Mr Darcy!

Now that the weather is improving, I’m strongly tempted to start a series of posts based on travel and food. In this way, I can have fun whilst pretending that I’m doing it all for my readers. This is what we apothecaries like to call a win-win situation. This weekend, I visited Bath for the […]

Tetelestai

So what have I been up to lately? Well, I dragged my sorry self out of bed and went to church this morning. Don’t you find that empathy is the oddest thing? It’s feels for all the world like losing a protective layer of skin. I must have been to a gazillion Good Friday services […]

Roll up! Roll up!!

I’ve been off work all week, that is to say, I’ve been exhausting myself doing AlaraApothecary stuff all week! I’m going back to work for a rest. Having said that, I’ve had a pretty good time despite the rotten weather. At least I wasn’t away in Europe as originally planned- the weather there was atrocious. […]

No Way!

This week, dear readers, we are going to mess with your heads. I have been thinking about all the things that we are told and which we absolutely believe because we hardly ever look into them or think about them ourselves. These are a few of the ‘facts’ I’ve been musing upon lately. Number 1: […]