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Winter Of Discontent

Oh no! A world shortage of lettuce, broccoli and cabbage!! How will we cope? Yep, you guessed – children all over Europe are pumping their fists in the air and doing cartwheels. As a well-known philanthropist, I would like to donate my lifetime portion of Iceberg lettuce to a grateful world. Don’t all thank me […]

Quality Vs Quantity

So, I went to a gala dinner on Sunday. Excellent fun it was too; to say it was full of party animals is an understatement – I danced for 4 hours straight and the dance floor was always crowded. In the end, they had to turn the music off and switch all the lights on […]

Emotion, Schemotion.

Excellent week where it did not snow. Yeah, yeah, it’s really priddy, until you have to wade through the wretched stuff. Love it if I have the weekend off, not so keen if I have to go to work. Best story this week is the one about Zoe Kravitz telling us to let it all […]

Is There A Doctor In The House?

Second week of the year and the festive season already seems like a distant memory. Never fear, we at AlaraApothecary are here to cheer. (We’re poets and we do know it!). Anyhoo, Moron of the Year is becoming a hotly-contested title already. No.1 favourite thus far is the genius at NHS England who informed the […]

A Chorus Of Disapproval

Happy new year, dear readers. I thought I would start you off with some of Gary “Boy Genius” Larson’s excellent cartoons. 2017 is going to be a better year than 2016, mos’ def. We already have a nominee for Humanitarian of the Year. A billionaire in the US has been funding a secret project to […]