if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

One evening way back in 1999, after a a long day at work, I made supper and slumped on the couch in front of the TV. I got up again after ma...

This year I am making no resolutions.  There may be things I need to change, but either I can't figure out what or I know I won't be...

This recovery is slow. I have had a three-day fever followed by a week's weakness before, but I was a sprightly lad in my late fifties w...

As far as I can work out - given three days' incubation - it was someone on SouthWest Trains on the 27th of November. According to one a...

I have been blogging since April 2009. Over sixteen years. I started it with the intention of writing about the things I was doing and the t...

Regular readers will have long ago realised that I am not the life and soul of the party. I don’t have people knocking on the door because ...

At the end of August, I got a cold, followed by a cough that wracked my torso for a couple of days, and by about two weeks later, I felt phy...

Most of the practical suggestions that psycho-hyphenates make are for people who are a) usually okay, but having a bad time, or, b) can reme...

When I get ambushed by a really nasty cold and cough - the kind that means I need to sleep in a chair and gives me aching ribs from the coug...

I was 70 last month. I celebrated on the day itself by having a blood test (at 08:00!) to make sure I still had the necessary hormones and c...

 I have another cold. I am sure I caught it on an over-crowded train from Waterloo to Twickenham Saturday afternoon. I gather the match was ...

I’m trying to remember when in the last twenty years I must have met Wim Wenders and why he would have been interested enough in my life to ...

Regular readers will remember that about ten or so months ago I was having pains in my right shoulder and arm. I thought this was caused by ...

Apple have updated iOS 16.5 to 16.5.1 so that camera adapters work again. This means I can stream from my iPad over USB, as God (or Steve Jo...

I am now 69 years old. I prefer the round decade birthdays. The 9-ers are a bit of an anti-climax I have worn discs in my neck vertebrae I...

So it's time to follow on with the shoulder problem, which I thought was due to poor posture and adapting to the narrower body of an ele...

On this day in 2020, the British Government made it illegal for people to leave their houses without excuse, shut schools, closed hospitals ...

I took the Fiat for a service recently. I used to go to a local dealership in Hounslow, which this time seemed reluctant to answer the phone...

I've just finished another batch of egregious backdating. I've been distracted by my shoulder and right arm. If I sit at a table a...

There is nothing like having a clenched muscle in my right shoulder to make me feel like resigning quietly from all forms of human interacti...