2007 turns out to be a very auspicious year. I am 60 years old. I qualified as a vet 35 years ago. The AVMC (www.alternativevet.org) is twenty years old. It was the first dedicated holistic veterinary practice in the UK.  My tenure as Hon. Sec. of the BAHVS is 25 years old. It is twenty years since I became VetMFHom. The IAVH is twenty-one years old and the first International Veterinary Congress was held in Oxford, twenty years ago. The IAVH held its first Organic Farming Workshop in Foulum, Denmark, ten years ago. 2007 is also the year in which I retired as Hon. Sec. of the BAHVS.

Homeopathy-First Aid for Pets was first published fifteen years ago and Feeding Dogs the Natural Way was first published ten years ago. Added to that, the Mastitis trial took place twenty-one years ago and the Kennel Cough trial twenty years ago.

That's a bunch of special anniversaries.