An eventful month, one way or another. In the first three weeks I managed to get out quite a bit on the motorbike, making the most of it before everything gets colder, darker and wetter. I did trips out to Lewes, Arundel, Dorking and Camberley checking out record fairs and shops, but also found myself […]
Entries Tagged as 'Medicine/Health'
July 2025
August 5th, 2025 · Comments Off on July 2025 · Life
Looking back, July seems to be a month where I got out more than usual but also managed to do a lot more indoors things as well. I don’t understand how that works. Jayne and I got to go out together a few times because her shift pattern was kind to us this month, and […]
Tags: Books·Films·Medicine/Health·Motorbike
The drugs don’t work
June 30th, 2024 · Comments Off on The drugs don’t work · Life
I had plans for this weekend. The weather looked like being perfect for motorbiking; dry, sunny, and warm but not so hot that wearing all that protective clothing makes you melt. The plan was to go down to Worthing on Saturday morning, have a look around town, maybe have a coffee and pastry somewhere, and […]
Tags: Medicine/Health
June 2023
July 5th, 2023 · Comments Off on June 2023 · Life, Music
After months of dreary rain, cold, and high winds, I finally found some days suitable for flying my drone. The first attempt was just me on my own, down at Wytch Cross to get the hang of it. As I managed that without any disasters, I went down to Arundel to meet up with our […]
Tags: Drones·Glastonbury·Medicine/Health·Motorbike·TV·YouTube
Avoidable deaths
June 26th, 2023 · Comments Off on Avoidable deaths · Life, Politics
This story caught my attention on the radio news this morning (“UK’s high rate of avoidable deaths linked to NHS woes”) and I think the headline is more than a bit misleading. Read a bit further and it says “The UK had one of the lowest levels of life expectancy – although the study acknowledged […]
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health
May 2023
June 3rd, 2023 · 2 Comments · Life
I really should try to find the mental energy to write here more than once a month, but meanwhile here is a summary of the recently-finished May. It was a good month. Any month with three bank holidays in it can’t be anything other than a good month!
Tags: Medicine/Health·Motorbike·TV·Vinyl
Paranoia time again
February 6th, 2023 · Comments Off on Paranoia time again · Life
Tomorrow I have my regular three-monthly-ish post-cancer outpatients appointment – the first one in almost two years that will be face-to-face rather than on the phone. Back in September I had an annual CT scan to make sure everything is still OK and I have spent the last three or four months happy because I […]
Tags: Cancer·Medicine/Health
Video nasties
October 12th, 2022 · Comments Off on Video nasties · Life
Today’s post saw the arrival of my belated birthday present from the NHS: a bowel cancer screening kit. Obviously this is going to involve me posting a stool sample to some laboratory. The kit contains an instruction sheet for doing all this, which includes a QR code which can be used to see an instructional […]
Tags: Medicine/Health·WTF
Get on your bike!
July 27th, 2020 · Comments Off on Get on your bike! · Life
I see that the government want to encourage more people to take up cycling to improve health by reducing obesity. While it is easy to pick holes in this, the gist of it is very laudable. There shouldn’t be any doubt that reducing weight leads to improvements in health and that cycling can help to […]
Tags: Cycling·Medicine/Health
One in a million (and a half)
April 20th, 2020 · Comments Off on One in a million (and a half) · Life
A couple of weeks ago I received that letter from the NHS that was, apparently, being sent out to 1.5 million people who are deemed to be vulnerable. While I don’t feel particularly vulnerable, I was not surprised to receive the letter, it was still a bit of a shock in a way because it […]
