A blog by Ross of Penge (formerly of Balham)

I blogged pretty extensively during 2014 and early 2015, but got out of the habit. In the time since there has been a huge amount I've sort of wanted to write about (politics, terror etc) but I haven't. I tried several times, but anger and frustration about what was happening prevented me from getting things down in a coherent form. Given I couldn't express what I felt, and it didn't seem like it would make a difference anyway, I let it lie fallow.

It's now early 2017, and I'm back, blogging about my attempt to do the first month of the year without social media. After that, who knows?

And why gateway2thesouth? Named after a famous sketch popularised by Peter Sellers:

"Broad-bosomed, bold, becalmed, benign,
Lies Balham, four-square on the Northern Line."

I lived in Balham for 23 years - longer than I have been anywhere else, and it still feels like one of the places in the world I most belong.

Saturday 30 January 2010

The Milk of Canine Kindness

The list of things contained (or more accurately not contained) in homeopathic remedies is long and varied. Many people would have heard of arnica, snake venom, and belladonna (deadly nightshade). Of course, caffeine provides a homeopathic sleeping pill which works (take it and you will fall asleep eventually).

I had however missed the use of dog milk - which appears to deal with dreams of snakes among other things.


I am lucky enough never to have been plagued with dreams of snakes, although judging from the 325,000 entries when I Googled this, plenty of people have. (Note to self: dream interpretation must be a future blog topic.) Perhaps this is because I stick to cow juice on the morning Coco Pops.
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