Chewing the Cud?

Make no mistake — flu kills. To put the risks into perspective, deaths from the common cold are vanishingly rare. Flu, by contrast, was associated with almost 16,000 deaths in England alone in 2017/8. If you have a cold, you may feel miserable and sniffly but you can usually struggle through. Influenza is very different. You'll usually feel absolutely exhausted, have a very high temperature...

My dear friend and colleague, Jim Robinson, passed away last week. Jim was a member of the editorial advisory group for this website and could always be relied upon to offer wise counsel. He also acted in the background as an advisor to the Haddenham.net Facebook page whenever local issues were being discussed in highly contentious ways...

This year's Cider Competition will be held at the Rising Sun on Saturday 16th March, starting at 7:00pm. It promises to be even bigger than last year's brilliant event as we have made some significant changes. The 'judges' will be those people in the pub who want to be judges. The more the merrier. And, courtesy of Total Tyres, there will be significant prizes to be...