mutations of mortality

I want to ask a question about goodness, or at least about good intentions. The shocking revelations about MPs’ expenses have made me wonder...

I spent most of yesterday and most of today so far dozing. For some of the time I was dozing in front of the TV watching old movies, The Asp...

Stephen J Gould's article, " The Median is not the Message " is a must read for everyone with any sort of cancer. Results of p...

After the fourth course I felt very tired and had to take a 30 minute nap. Of course I still have the 46 hour infusion of 5-FU to get throug...

Today I start my fourth course. When I finish this I will be a third of the way through. looking back, the third course was the worst so far...

I think I ought to comment on the scandal involving Members of Parliament. For my non-British readers I should say that the newspapers have ...

Side effects this time seem to have lasted longer. One that I have not had before is associated with meals. After eating, I feel faint and s...

On June 6th 1944, British, Canadian and American forces landed on the beaches of Normandy. A second front had been opened in the Second Worl...

I am sorry to have been out of touch for a few days. The side effects of the chemo have kept me from blogging. Last course I had only 4 good...

I have just completed the third course of chemo and am waiting for side effects. In order to pre-empt these I have made some changes. Most i...

Do we only value things we can count? Or should we count things we value? When you dig your enemy’s grave, do not dig too deeply lest you fa...

We used to have two May trees (Crataegus mongyna) in our front garden each with flowers of a slightly different pink. Over the past several ...

Those who are not soccer enthusiasts may not have heard of Sven Goran Eriksson. He was the first non-English manager of the England football...

For the last two nights I have woken at 3-30 am and been unable to sleep afterwards. The problem is not that I am unwell, but that after a l...

Person to person transmission of the new virus has been observed in the USA, Germany, Spain and the UK so it is a pandemic. The word 'pa...

Over-hyped? Justifyingly frightened? What should we make of it? So far just a handful of cases apart from in Mexico, where the death rate is...

Popes, Cardinals, Archbishops, Archimandrites, Bishops, Monsignors, Priests, Abbots, Abesses, Overseers, Elders, Presbyters, Canons, Deans, ...

It has been a very poor weekend. I slept for most of yesterday and this morning I have had postural hypotension. I think I must try and pers...

Selina Hastings had a saying, "I thank God for the letter 'M'". She was referring to a passage in Paul's first letter ...

It seems that the day after the chemo ends is a poor day. I can't seem to think much and my concentration span is only about 15 minutes....