Salvatore Licitra (1968-2011) It was a tragedy for his family and for the opera world when the 43 year Sicilian-Swiss tenor died on Monday after spending nine days in a coma after an accident on his vespa scooter a few…
I am off to the hospital again this morning to see my neurologist and, I hope, to arrange for my last MRI brain scan. I haven’t seen her for six months now but she is hopeful that we will find…
I have had a plan to add moving images to this site for some time but I still haven’t got round to buying a decent camera and now that I have just booked my second holiday of the year, to…
So just look at it! The view from my study window. The prehistoric mound is lush with moisture, drizzly rain acts as a miserable screen to what should be a beautiful English Spring day and a solitary crow is flying…
Sometimes looking at this website which I have been running now since December 2008, I wonder if it is really the wild ramblings of a hypochondriac because so much of it, though less recently, has been to do with illness.…
Nearly time for a nice, er……glass of water. Hmmm….delicious. How many sets of kidneys has it been through before it comes out of my tap? Too many for me to want to visualise I think. I believe in sharing to…
I just ran up three flights of stairs and my heart rate is 85 beats per minute. Can’t wait for that cup of black coffee but I am wondering what it will do to my heart. Should I be worrying…