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Factory floored
Had a meal in a cafe the other day in a big city not a million miles away. Very poor, almost inedible. These days I’m pleased when I find a good meal. Often the meals seem prepared with little care or...
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Back to Methuselah
Bit of serendipity other day. As I was planning this post I was taken to task by a right wing tweeter unhappy, for some reason, that I had repeated the obvious truism that conservatives are much dumber...
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To be hanged with the bible
When the bible was written humans* didn’t know: About bacteria and viruses and parasites Blood circulation Earth going around sun More than 5 planets About galaxies There was a southern hemisphere...
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Just Disorderly
Sorry for lack of posts recently but has been a bad week in various ways, although ironically, and annoyingly, I have been pretty healthy really. But not feeling myself, one way and another, and that...
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The Hucksters
Parents, let us safely assume, have been always pretty much the same – concerned about children’s safety, learning, nutrition, clothing. So why the childhood obesity epidemic, and why suddenly, in...
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Unforgettable
Some years ago the Cancer Council of Australia ran an advertising campaign based on the phrase “Cancer: It’s a word not a sentence”. Clever in a sort of pretty unsubtle way of course, it was used to...
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A world too wide
You know those cartoons where the pursuing villain suddenly has a car fall from the sky and land on him? Or a big boulder, or a tree. Kersplat! That’s old age. There you are tootling along, minding...
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A, B, C, D… E, F, G…
Anyway, that’s another round of chemotherapy almost completed. Neither I nor my Oncologist sure whether the first round achieved much (but had left my Neutrophils worryingly low for the start of a new...
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Like a circle in a spiral
Just to get you up to date with progress. My last chemo cycle was before Xmas. Should have had the next one about two weeks ago, but the oncologist couldn’t decide whether another condition I developed...
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Tilting at markets
Once upon a time I thought that Steve Jobs was an IT saint, put down on Earth for a little while to enrich the lives of ordinary mortals, and Bill Gates, well, wasn’t. Recent years have tended to...
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Fiery particles
So here I am again. Blogging, one-handed, in the oncology day treatment ward. For the last time. Ever. No, mustn’t tempt the fates, waiting with their deadly scissors to punish both optimism and...
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Look at that big hand
The last time I watched “High Noon” was 60 years ago. And that’s a sentence that seems odd to write. But a dear friend kept telling me I should watch it again, that it had (unlike some other once...
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Can’t judge a packet by…
This week came the very welcome news that Ireland is to follow Australia’s lead in forcing cigarettes into plain drab packaging containing only health warnings. Couple of things struck me. One was that...
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Toot Toot
I know you’ve all been avidly watching this space for some new piece of wit and wisdom and have been sadly disappointed of late. Sadly disappointed. But (a word signalling that alibi follows) I’ve been...
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Denial’s advocate
The MSM standard practice is to interview by taking the worst most extreme antitheses, and or “talking points”, from deniers (for example), and using them as questions for climate scientists (for...
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On average
My reliable (mostly) water pump of 16 years seems to be knackered, and, having timed the knackering to the end of one of our driest ever Octobers, and the start of (probably) a very dry November, I...
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Looking well
If you have been following my endless saga through the looking glass and into the medical world you will be pleased to know I have passed through the latest checkpoint with flying colours and been...
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Old currency
What else can possibly be said about the worst Australian Budget in history that wasn’t said by Abbott’s smirk as Hockey screwed the students; his comment that they were going to undo everything the...
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