Lisa is an animal healer working in the Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk area of the UK. She treats all animals from cats and dogs up to horses - and beyond, probably, given the opportunity! You can read all about her healing technique.
Treatment for your animal requires a vet referral but Lisa is happy to discuss your case with you. All her contact details are on the site of course.
There are some case studies on the site too with some lovely pictures of some of the animals Lisa has been able to help.
See some of the other sites Gantwells have worked on in their portfolio.
The Winstanley’s were a local family. William lived at Quendon in what sounds like a lovely old farmhouse called Berries, which sadly has been pulled down now. His nephew, Henry, lived at Littlebury and was the builder of the first Eddystone Lighthouse. Adam Hart-Davis wrote a fascinating book about him a while ago and that makes a good read too.
However back to William. He was a writer and very enthusiastic about Christmas. They were a religious family and he thought that a lovely way to celebrate the birth of Christ at Christmas was to have huge family parties with lots of food and general merriment. They sound a lovely family and Alison’s descriptions of the preparations for Christmas - riding into Saffron Walden to purchase all the food and Anne’s cooking on the days leading up the celebrations make for wonderful feel-good reading. There are even some of the recipes from the cookbook Anne used in the back of the book.
I should have said that William lived from 1628 to 1698, so through the Puritan period when Christmas was banned (although the Winstanley’s along with many others, continued to celebrate). However it was William’s writing that encouraged people to start celebrating Christmas again when Charles II came back to the throne. William was a prodigious writer producing his own newspaper and an almanac that came out every November under the pen name of Poor Robin, as well as several books.
The book is produced by Poppyland Publishing who have some lovely looking books on their website.
If you are interested in history, local stories or just want a heart-warming read for Christmas I can highly recommend “William Winstanley - the man who saved Christmas”. You can buy it from Amazon or direct from Poppyland Publishing.
Tiny Wiki, Tiddly Wiki, Taggly Wiki - all forms of the same thing - a personal wiki you can run on your desktop. Just download the file from tiddlywiki.com and away you go. You do need to run it in Firefox however. It didn’t work in Safari for me.
TiddlyWiki is still fairly new and the help wiki link I looked at was practically blank. It took me some while to find any useful help and I finally found this pdf Tiddlywiki cheat sheet at nothickmanuals.info
However because it took me so long to get started I thought I would keep a note here of my progress with Tiddlywiki for reference. So here goes.
Getting started
Getting started actually wasn’t too bad as there is a ‘tiddler’ (an entry) already made called Getting started and you just click on the links within it to update the name of your wiki, subtitle etc.
What is a tiddler?
A tiddler is each one of the entries that you make in your wiki. When you click on a link to them in one of the menus, or linked from another tiddler, then they open up on screen, if they are not open already. They will then stay open until you close them. There is a link in the right menu to close all the tiddlers (which is a bit scary when you first start as you will give yourself a completely blank screen! Put one or two things in your Main Menu first!).
Saving
You do need to save changes to the wiki once you have entered something (not something I am used to doing as I did expect that to be done automatically). It gives you a message to say that it has been backed up and it will create a backup file in the folder where you are storing the wiki.
Changing the theme
Tiddly Themes and Tiddly tools. OK, I’m lost at this point. I’m just trying to change the menus really and have got carried away with changing the whole design. Will come back to this bit later.
Main Menu
Click on your Getting Started link and that will give you a link to your “Main Menu” (the one down the left hand side if you are using the standard Tiddlywiki design, and it only has Getting Started in it to start with). You can add any of your tiddlers to the Main Menu using the link text of two square brackets [[ your text for your link, the pipe character | and then the name of the tiddler you are linking too, closing with two square brackets again ]].
Default Tiddlers
The Getting Started tiddler also offers you the opportunity to list your Default tiddlers or those you would like to open up automatically when you open the file.
