Treading carefully
Making progress. Good news: the hospital bed and all the other paraphernalia has gone back and, hurrah!, I’ve actually walked down the front path to
31/01/2024
Blog & Articles of Interest
January rambles
Hot stuff. The sous-chef is still pounding out his daily quota as he runs his age. Sponsorship welcomed at https://www.facebook.com/donate/268477082584179/ and all goes to Age
31/01/2024
Happy January
Running for Age UK. The sous-chef’s challenge for January this year: running his very considerable age. The combination of an old serious injury plus his
31/01/2024
Sixty years on.
Just finished Mickey Spillane’s book “The Snake” (published 1964). Staggering attitudes towards how men and women interacted: lantern-jawed, monosyllabic Mike Hammer resisting sex before marriage
31/01/2024
New Year Greetings!
Season’s kisses. Howard arrived with this huge bunch of mistletoe just before Christmas. It’s hanging in the kitchen ready for kissing duties and he took
31/01/2024
Christmas Cheer and Congratulations.
Please enjoy the latest triumph: after more than three months, I have at last managed to climb the stairs to the bedroom, study etc! Now
13/12/2023
Journey to recovery
Life has been very fuzzy over the last few weeks: on top of the spinal fracture (manageable), still living in hospital bed in conservatory, there’s
06/12/2023
Ex-PM “bamboozled” by science?
A scientific adviser commented on the Covid enquiry and the politician “bamboozled” by science. She scoffed about those of us who don’t know “mortality” from
22/11/2023
What makes a good leader?
All the political debates about new Governments next year in America and here plus all the words being spouted at the Covid Enquiry, I’ve been
08/11/2023