Health
Medical Musings
This is a warts an’ all musing upon the particular medical state I find myself in as I approach my 86th Birthday. As a soi-disant shortarse (I have lost c. 3 inches in height over [more…]
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The Anxiety Money Machine
The perception of normal human distress has undergone a dramatic transformation over the past three decades. What were previously thought of as everyday anxieties – such as worries about work, finance, relationships, health and the [more…]
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Tomorrow’s Another Day
It’s now 1:30 am 10th April …………..a couple of hours after Mrs. C. and Mrs. Bessie Mate finished their 2hr conversation/catch up on the phone…………………Mrs. Bessie Mate lives nought but 5 mins walk away… The [more…]
America
Epstein……Behind the Curtain (Part 5)
The chronology demands emphasis : October 2009. Epstein had recently been released from incarceration. He was a registered sex offender. And he was engaged in correspondence concerning state-of-the-art genetic manipulation technology and its commercial exploitability [more…]
Diary
A View From (Outside) The Greenhouse; T’Fickle Finger Of T’Fate…..Innit?
Firstly, allow me to apologise for so quickly getting off the horse after spending such a long time out of the saddle (as it were) before getting back on it. The best laid plans of [more…]
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New Knee or not New Knee? That is the question
I have an old Collins Sporting Diary from 1971. Quite why I have kept it, I don’t know. In amongst the entries about how bossy my sister was, that I’d asked Chi-Chi to go to [more…]
Diary
A View From The Greenhouse; Hooptedoodle And Other Matters
I return from a bit of a hiatus where, due to several factors, not the least of them a little bit of self pity, I allowed what passes for my creative flow to dry up. [more…]
Cooking
A Short Guide to Coffee (noun) Café Kaw-fee
At various stages of its journey from Arabia through Turkey and into Europe, coffee has been known as the Devil’s Brew and the forerunner of Viagra. The fact that it made it to England is [more…]
Diary
A View From A Hospital Bed; Folk (Nowt So Queer As Edition)
It’s the waiting that gets to you. I’d arrived, as requested, at 7am and was escorted to a curtained cubicle. The people looking after me, although my needs were minimal at this time, were all [more…]