So I made it out of October in spite of all those bad feelings about revisiting my brain haemorrhage and the events that surrounded it a year ago. The day of the actual anniversary, 30th. October, was marked by a…
At almost exactly this time last year, 10.20 am, I wrote an email and opened a couple of others – all of them unremarkable. I only remember that because it is the last record of any activity here before a…
I love politicians as much as the rest of you. They are, as we all know, mostly dedicated public servants with a mission to make the World a better place. Well, I guess some of them are like that but…
I have been in poetry-mode for some time now. It all started a year ago just before my brain haemorrhage. Yes folks this is brain haemorrhage week as far as I am concerned because on the 30th. October it will…
There is a damp patch in the kitchen which calls out to me most days. It is singing, in a mocking tone, something like this: “I’ma gonna cost you money!” It was right of course – money and disruption. I…
Patient cure thyself. I think that is the right cliche but I often get my cliches in a twist. This sounds mad I know but today I begin the last week in October remembering that a year ago it was…
I came across one of the miracles of the British National Health Service yesterday. Something I would have missed if I had listened to the well-meaning advice of my local doctor. I wrote in a previous blog how I had…
Congratulations to Mr. Jose Luis Rodrigues who has just won the Veolia Environment Wild Life Photographer of the Year 2009 with this inspirational shot of a hunting wolf. Surely it is not only me, a self-confessed wolf, who can enjoy…
I was in London yesterday, an hour’s train journey away from here, and I had fun meeting a friend for lunch but also just being out and about, drug-free at last and, hopefully, on my way to a full recovery…
Autumn has decided to arrive in rush here in South East England, well, here in my home town of Lewes in East Sussex any way. There is a slight chill in the air, the skies are blue and it is…