
Cynthia Fleming, Ancaster, England

It is not very often that I endorse a specific product but when I find something that changes my life I am up for shouting about it. As a violinist, have spent YEARS looking for ways to keep my neck happy. I have spent huge amounts of money on fancy "designed-for-space" memory foam wonders and had probably getting on for a hundred osteopath appointments over the past 40 years. Even though I have now stopped playing professionally, the osteopath appointments continued as did the feeling of having a "crunchy" neck. There was no choice. I expected to wake (if I slept at all) crippled, but was surprisingly rested the next morning. I could find nothing like it here in the UK until I came across these last year and I decided to give it a go. I won't lie to you. It is very odd at first. Hard. Slightly noisy. But after a couple of nights it became my new best friend. The theory goes that "memory foam" pillows are always trying to regain their shape and are every so subtly fighting with your head and neck all night long. Once the buckwheat pillow has moulded itself to your head and neck contour, the muscles relax and are properly supported all night long. After a year I still go to sleep thinking," this thing IS hard......" before waking up the next morning with no crunchy neck. That well-known memory pillow will set you back from £70-100 and, after three years ( it's suggested life span) will need replacing. The old one will languish in land-fill for the next 500 years or so because of what it is made of-plastic. They get hot, too This buckwheat one is half the price, organic, bio-degradable, hypo-allergenic (unless you have a buckwheat allergy but that's rare, I am told), adjustable ( just take out some of the buckwheat if it's too big. Save it though as it will need topping up eventually), COOL and made here in the UK. Even my "beloved other" likes them and I had to buy more. They also do a travel size in case you get so used to it you can't stand being without. What's not to love. This company has not paid me in any way to endorse their product. I just really like it and wanted to share. Just bought my 4th one (two for home, two for the place we stay in London) and a travel pillow.
Cynthia is Lead Violinist at BBC Symphony Orchestra