There is a huge volume of published material in all fields of Complementary Medicine. Such is the volume, that finding a place to house all the books and journals which PH receives on a daily basis is a huge problem. Literally behind my desk and work station are two eternally large piles of books, awaiting commissioning and review; the piles diminish slightly every time I have a blitz and send out books for review, but they fill up again in no time.

My partner suffered 7 hours of violent vomiting, following food poisoning after eating a meat pie purchased from our local Supermarket. Their response was pathetically customer service reassurances that they take these incidents seriously, despite my several telephone calls, even when I returned the offending product for microbiological inspection. This was infuriating, in view of threats these days from pathological organisms – E. coli, MRSA, C. difficile, the H5N1 strain of avian flu. More on this another time.