My mother has recently been diagnosed with the early stages of dementia and, needless to say, this is causing me concern and I’m losing sleep as a result. I’ve tried to get a good eight hours before I have to get up and start work by 9.00 – fortunately I work from home as a writer/digital typist for the real estate industry so I don’t HAVE to be up before 8.30, but even if I go to bed at midnight and read or listen to dreamy classical music on the radio for half an hour, I still find myself tossing and turning well before the end of my eight hour sleep!

It would seem that US researchers have found a link between eating probiotic yoghurt and treating depression. This discovery may, in the future, help not only those people suffering from depression but also general stress and anxiety and possibly Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Irritable Bowel Syndrom and autism to name but a few!

What a mixed up few weeks I’ve had recently, not only with the weather but with my work, my family … all manner of things! The weather’s been completely topsy-turvy. We had a week or so of heavy snow which remained thick on the ground for around three weeks.