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.…
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…