A-ha! Finally found it (although I guess I could do with some references now): a description of how much certain conservative measures affect blood pressure.

Read on for a brief description of what these things entail...

And as to everything, all good things, people and chickens come to an end.... I just checked my email to discover that, unfortunately, Mr Fox wins today:

Today at midday, the black chicken was killed by a fox. I had let them out and was sitting in the kitchen when the speckled one burst into the kitchen and jumped onto my computer.
I rushed out to discover some feathers by the trampoline and the body under the big tree. The orange chicken was nowhere to be found. Eventually, maybe two hours later the orange chicken re-emerged.
The upshot of all this is that I am cooking roast chicken tonight if you wish to join me.

House-sitting a flat in the city, large garden with grass and trees and railway at the end, it's a good place to sit and work during the day. Added bonus are the 3 eggs daily provided by my companions, the chickens. Well, was meant to be: was shown how to retrieve the eggs from within the "egg-loo" - essentially a chicken coop, allegedly designed and marketed by a company called OmLet who come and install it for you - on the first day by my friend (a relative of the owner)... returned into the apartment and back to the light (it was night outside) to discover his arm was alive with crawling things: very small, who knows what? Well, we figured that out quickly when we found a tube of "Red mite powder" on a shelf . Red mites? They're only little, but vicious, apparently - google returns a very informative pdf which explains that they are also known as Dermanyssus gallinae, a renowned chicken parasite that is seemingly impossible to eradicate and infects chicken farms (and other birds) throughout the country.

Made chilli mango chicken last night. Actually, chilli-mango-fruit-chicken, but i'll come to that, the recipe was pretty straightforward (with some bite!) and easily applicable to pretty much any food stuff of substance - vegetables, meat, pulses possibly ...

Easy. Garlic, ginger, red and green chili peppers, groundnut oil (I would have used a little peanut oil, too, if we had any) and, of course, mango. Fry it up and just keep on adding more fresh mango to the mixture as it cooks, then eventually add a bit of water to fluff it up and make it into more of a sauce. That's it (almost)! Only the embellishment to come....