I am not going to keep blogging about my ailments, I promise! Yesterday I told you that I had toothache and, I guess, you can all sympathise with that – even if it is only because dumb beasts like wolves…
I was awake most of last night with toothache. Ouch. So I thought what drug should I take to stop the pain. Well, the choice was a rich one! When I left hospital in November, I carried away with me…
At the time of writing, the death toll of children in the current figthing between Israel and Gaza, is Israel 4, Gaza 100. Also today, we read that one of Gaza’s Hamas leaders, Mahmoud Zahar, has said that Islamists will…
I have always been deeply interested in music – classical, rock, pop and more recently jazz and various types of Asian, African and South American styles. I have always needed a daily fix of some sort of music whether it…
I had the MRI brain scan yesterday and survived the experience. It was my second one – the first occurred quite soon after my brain haemorrhage so I was a bit confused about the details to say the least. This…
I am off to hospital this morning to have my second MRI brain scan – just the way to bring in the New Year. It has been scheduled two months after my brain haemorrhage and, hopefully, it will show that…
What colour shoes should I wear with a black suit? That was the question worrying some folk recently. As many of them will be fighting their way through the January sales in the hunt for sartorial bargains, it seems an…
I know it is only numbers – the first day of the first month in the new year, 2009 – but that is how we organise things on this planet and we might as well go with it. So Happy…
2008 has ended as quite a tough time for me – I came out of hospital on the 15th. November after 17 days in quite a serious state. The doctors, nurses and all the medical and auxiliary teams were outstandingly…
So this is the time of year when all good Christians rejoice – or so we are told. Many of them will be warmed in the cockels of their hearts by images of Bethlehem as a gently snow dusted idyll…