A short but interesting note I hope on healthy living. Our youngest daughter has Down syndrome, and she is now 12 years old. Over the last 12 years I have tried to watch her diet and tried to give her good healthy food. This is not always the case as children have their own minds as to what they like to eat, and one of her problems is crisps.
I don’t want to go into a lot of details about her diet, but what I wanted to draw your attention to is healthy eating . Children with down syndrome has an extra lot of free radical being produced, but we all have free radical which can cause a lot of damage to our bodies.
Looking at Doctor Steve Nugent recent flyer he draws our attention to the fact how fruit and vegetables have declined dramatically over the years in nutrients. Today we would need to eat 53 peaches to 2 peaches in 1951. Wow ! That is where vitamins and mineral supplements come into being.
Please add you comments and we can have a chat about it in our call on Monday.
See you then Hazel (one of the team)
Imagine the scene ‘on holiday’ and popped into Starbucks in Hereford for a quick coffee and a chance to check e mail. Met a guy in there called Stuart Addis who turned out to be an enterprising businessman with a great offer. How about fixed price Accountancy services – we were so impressed that we’ve extended his offer to all our colleagues – click the following link to download his fixed price accounting offer. It all starts at £99 for a self employed sole trader. By the way not only is the coffee great but you can also get a free coffee when you buy a bag of coffee beans – ask when you order – you know me – can’t resist a bargain.
I saw this article on the New Economics Foundation Website and thought it made some real sense. The banks seem to think they are not only above the law but also above control. The idea that their function should be split 3 ways , personal customers, business banking and securities dealing, makes such common sense and give control back to the people that use their services. That a bank should be for profit for me runs against the grain – there is something just not quite right. That brings me onto the whole subject on money – is it real or is it a myth.
If we all went to the Bank of England and asked to exchange a £10 note for £10 in cash – we’d get a big surprise. The statement on bank notes ” I promise to pay the bearer on demand…” – has gone. So what is the currency of money – does it even exist? If you like philosophy just google the phrase ‘does money exist’ and see what comes up.
I’m very interested in the concept of micro finance as practised by several organisations in Africa – I wonder if that could be a model for the western countries so devastated by the banking system collapse.
Break up the banks to restore lending and revive the economy from the bottom up, says think tank
Economic rescue efforts – including quantitative easing – will not work until the fundamental problem that Britain’s banks have become “unfit for purpose” is addressed, says nef (the new economics foundation).
In a report published today, Tuesday 10 March 2009, – the day the British Bankers Association chief is to answer to a parliamentary investigation of banking supervision and regulation1 – nef argues that the shift in the shape and business model of banks over the last generation helped both cause and perpetuate the present financial crisis. Continue Reading…
If you are in business today you have probably realised the need to have a web presence but what about how you get connected to the WEB. The battle between copper wired and fibre optic connections continues to develop. Anyone serious about need ing high speed connectivity has to opt for fibre optics. BT has made some very strong statements about having plans to roll out a fibre optic system but Virgin media already has one – don’t miss out – check it out.
BT aroused a fair bit of attention yesterday when it announced 29 locations that would receive its ‘super-fast’ fibre-optic broadband next year.
However, Virgin Media is already offering similar speeds to those promised by BT in a number of areas and so looks to have a significant head start over BT. It’s also predicting speeds of up to 150 Mb/s in the not too distant future.
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Ok – its been a long time coming but what started out as a simple monday morning call with some freinds who shared a common goal (health in this case) has become something much more. Start Something Today is a beginning that might just lead anywhere – It depends on what we want to do and what we want to start – hence the name.
In todays economic climate we have recognised that we need to be proactive and actively create what matters to us. If we don’t do that we run the risk of getting stuck in a passive state where we watch the hurting world pass by and do nothing about it.
The key categories we have put in place ( we can add more later on) are the things we talk about most often. So here we are at the beginning of what I hope and Trust will be a wild ride where a few people get together to make a real difference and have a lot of fun in the process.
We will have some editorial guidelines to put in place but we have to start some where.
Paul Barton – excitedly
WE have today lived up to the title of the site START SOMETHING TODAY
