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 while relishing Velda’s provocative repeated disrobing. No wonder young men had such skewed attitudes towards…
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 some of the berries to press into the bark of the ancient apple trees. Perhaps…
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 there can be special stockings on Christmas morning. Hurrah that there’s determination in the old…
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 been some unknown virus. Feverish temperatures, no sense of smell or taste (except everything seems…
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 “morbidity”. Strikes me that the difference between useless and useful advice is far more important:…
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 pondering on how to choose a good leader. For anyone else with a military background…
Nearly ¾ million of us forced Government to stop rail companies getting rid of ticket offices. Most of us objected because the change would make our lives even more difficult due to our health conditions, disabilities, impairments or other good…
I was trumpet-blowing in the last post and have had my come-uppance. Fell down the last few stairs yesterday and landed in an ungainly heap under the library table, stool and chair. Much drama with long painful wait for ambulance,…
Feeling a bit smug. Not because a blind person won first prize for the honey cake class at our local beekeepers’ show but because the last one I made was a near disaster! That time I was in San Francisco…
Over half a million of us raised our voices by midnight 1 September to say we don’t agree with the closure of rail station ticket offices. Often, we with life-changing health conditions are the ones least heard and least thought…
