In these times of FMD and a further outbreak of lethal food poisoning in Scotland, it's good to have something nice to blog about!

Lyme Regis held its annual event, the 'Lyme Regatta', last week.

Here are some pictures:

Golden Cap in the afternoon light

Someone's having fun!

  Clown

  Dinosaur

First Prize!

  The Town Crier

Lyme's quaint little harbour, in the evening light

Personal experience (close family) suggests that homeopathy should be able to help those poor people in Scotland, who are suffering a renewed outbreak of E. coli food poisoning.

Food poisoning kills an enormous number of people, each year. In November-January 1996-97, in Central Scotland, 21 died of E. coli O157 food poisoning, 496 were affected and some were left permanently damaged. This time, the same strain has already killed one elderly lady and two more are seriously ill. It seems to have originated in a Morrisons supermarket, in Paisley.

With the dreadful mortality record, using conventional medicine, why has someone not asked the homeopathic medical community for help? They could do no worse than the current regime! Perhaps someone's scared that it might just work - then where would we be?

Alternatively, I suppose they could just stop eating meat?

Since writing the previous blog, DEFRA have rapidly posted details of the Surrey Control Zone, centred just to the Southeast of Esher & Claygate, taking in Claygate and Chessington and touching Kingston-upon-Thames, Epsom, Oxshott and Esher.

The news of a new 'suspect' case of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), on Romney Marsh, North of new Romney in Kent is not good. However, we can hope that, like the recent case near Dorking, this will turn out to be a false alarm. The waiting is not nice.

STOP PRESS: While writing this, news of a new Control Zone in Surrey was announced by the BBC. This is also an unconfirmed suspect case.

The Kent information has reached the DEFRA update site: http://www.defra.gov.uk/footandmouth/latest-situation/index.htm but the new suspect outbreak in Surrey is too new at the time of writing.

Visit http://www.whitehallpages.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=31217&newlang=eng&topic=158&catid=0 for the epidemiologist report and vaccination issues.