For some books, the title tells you everything. How about: Spoon-Fed: Why Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food is Wrong? I’ve just finished this disorientating book by Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at Kings College, London. You may well remember him from the Zoe app during the pandemic and his weekly YouTube updates. He has credibility. Basically, he sets out to show that nearly all our basic assumptions about food are wrong – and sometimes even dan

“I am going to get you back for all these pictures when I am there next month." So responded one daughter on WhatsApp on Monday, as she anticipated her own holiday in Tenerife this coming half term. There are all kinds of reasons for going to Tenerife in January: to enjoy the sunshine and to build up our step count through walking the prom. However, for me – particularly in this age of instant communication – there is the bonus of making our daughters jealous! So I regularly

¡Hola!  Well, here we are again in Los Cristianos, on the southern tip of Tenerife, for our annual vitamin D fix. And like this time last year I am sending this blog from our favourite waterfront café Mokelino as we watch the various ferries leave for the island of La Gomera which I can just glimpse through the haze. Fascinating place, La Gomera, a small circular volcanic island invariably shrouded in cloud, a place of some mystery.  However, on a regular basis it attracts in

“Dad, it would make my life much easier if you were dead!” So begins his story of the two sons as Jesus responds to the grumblings of the Pharisees and teachers of the law for him welcoming tax collectors and sinners. A devastating request from the younger son, abhorrent in any culture but especially here. “Father, I want right now what’s coming to me.” In effect he is saying that he can’t wait for his father to die. Clearly there is some background here. Does he simply wa