What my brain consultant said
I was writing about my brain haemorrhage on Friday and how I was going to see my consultant neurologist now that it is eight months since that dramatic day which has changed my life. Well, I guess I owe you…
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How Do I Feel? – Eight Months After My Brain Haemorrhage
Whilst I was hanging out the washing yesterday, I was thinking about today’s appointment with the consultant neurologist. It is now eight months since my brain haemorrhage and I am hoping that today’s meeting will show that my recovery has…
An English Summer Murder
It is English Summer Day Five and down here in South East England there hasn’t been a break in the weather. Today is hot and blue skied and even yesterday’s breeze has dropped. If you don’t live in the English…
Rustling Grass and Gray’s Elegy
English Summer Day Three and the sun is still shining, the sky is blue, the temperature up and a man is outside my window on a ladder mending the lead flashing on the roof. I am looking beyond him to…
Wimbledon opens the gentle English Summer with hopes for an abrasive young Scot
Alright, I will come in from the garden and write even though the sun is shining, the rose perfume is intoxicating and the many small spiders decided to tie me down into my chair with their tickly webs. I felt…
King Henry VIII still remembered after 500 Years
I live near one of those ruins that King Henry Eighth knocked about a bit and just round the corner from where his daughter Queen Mary sent some protestants to be burnt to death. Lewes Priory was once a cathedral-like…
Racing Cars Are Fun But Car Racing Isn’t A Sport
I met a few Formula One racing drivers once. They were nice compact little guys all zipped up in their all-in-one driving suits, they were bred, I assume, to be just small enough to be squeezed into those tiny Formula…
Barefoot Snail Crushing in the Rose Garden
There are a lot of people out there who think that gardening is all about pretty flowers and sitting in a deckchair admiring them. I used to think that a bit when I moved away from a house with a…
Vee have vays of making you laugh – fat naked laughing Germans are more fun than thin efficient ones
It is too easy I know to fall back on silly national stereotypes but no matter how hard I tried this morning I could not stop myself smiling at the news about those whingeing German soldiers in Afghanistan. Now the…
Twittering and Blogging is making a difference in Iran
Amazing scenes in Iran. Awful ones too of course but how inspiring to see all those people taking to the streets in protest – so many that the police and the army, in the end just had to stand back…