The irony/tragedy is that all this anti bacterial paranoia doesn’t do any good at all for their immune systems. Get them to wash their hands when they come in/go to the loo or before eating and they’ll do just fine like the millions before them, and the millions in the rest of the world. I imagine it’s a UK/US thing mainly, I can’t imagine that it’s like this in the rest of Europe
@B3 lol, I bet there is something similar already on the market
While I was working in a maternity unit, I answered the phone to more than one woman wanting to know if it's safe to eat curry when you're pregnant/breastfeeding? My usual answer was:. "It doesn't seem to do millions of Indian babies any harm.". Another woman rang in a panic to tell us she'd swallowed a plum stone. Yes? "But I'm pregnant!". Yes? "Well, what about the baby?!". Relax, the baby's in your uterus, the plum stone is in your digestive tract, they don't join up.
We had a traditional farmhouse kitchen ... piglets being brought back to life by being warmed in the Rayburn bottom oven, orphan kids being bottle fed in the old tea chest under the stairs ... bits of hay and straw all over the place no matter how often Ma tried to sweep up ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The anti bacterial products are on sale here but I don't watch French TV or read French papers or magazines - except gardening - so I have no idea if they're advertised everywhere. I expect the hygiene/bugs/dirt thing is more prevalent in cities and towns where people are disconnected from nature.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
What I think is sad is watching parents in the supermarket who are obviously not well off wasting their money on cheapo bottled water that probably came from a tap in Peckham Springs.
It is hard to fathom how the world (or our part of it) has changed so much in a generation or two. My girls, now in their early thirties, spent most of their toddlerhood summers stark naked in the garden, covered in mud, building "worm farms" or collecting bugs in an empty paddling pool. They resembled Stig of the Dump for anyone else old enough to remember.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@B3 lol, I bet there is something similar already on the market
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Whatever happened?
A glow worm's never glum
Cos how can you be grumpy
When the sun shines out your bum!