The sun shone again this morning. Elsewhere in Britain snow and gales may be a problem but here, in a small town in South East England the sun is radiant. It is illuminating that piece of hillside that I see…
I have had to lower the blind this morning in the room where I bash away on my computer. On a sunny day in the winter, this doesn’t usually happen until well into the morning but today, the movement of…
When I was at the dentist’s yesterday, I was told that my teeth were fine but my mouth and jaw had swollen up because of a gum infection probably caused by my anti-seizure drugs. I looked like a hamster and…
I have still got toothache and it really hurts. I will be going to the dentist later on today but meanwhile I am dosing myself up with painkillers which, annoyingly I can only use four times in twenty-four hours. I…
It is probably a deep-seated weakness I admit, but there is something about President George W. Bush that is really quite likeable. Maybe it was watching him present Britain’s very own Tony Blair with American’s highest civilian honour, the Presidential…
I once made a flippant remark about the Queen whilst having dinner with the Oscar-winning Hungarian film director, Istvan Szabo in Budapest. Too much name-dropping, ok, I admit it. By “the Queen”, I mean of course Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth…
One of my recent anxieties has been whether I have lost any of my memory since having that brain haemorrhage. I was always really proud of my ability to recall facts, even conversations, in pretty accurate detail. The haemorrhage which…
Yesterday was Saturday – yay! shout all the clubbers – but for me recently Saturday have been brain scan days – awwww! say all those clubbers. Well, the nice ones anyway. I got a letter telling me where to go…
Toothache has been a cruel addition to all the other symptoms I have had since my old friend the brain haemorrhage decided to mess up my life. How many different pains can be identified, I wonder, before they all merge…
A well-wisher left a message on here yesterday advising me to have a moratorium on the news for a week because current affairs are too depressing at a time when I am supposed to be relaxing after a major illness.…