On Thursday evening, 11 October 2012, Doe and I, together with our friends Doug and Marilyn, started our holiday in the beautiful town of Anghiari in Tuscany, Italy.
Health
My New Love
Okay, true confessions time. The real reason why I have lost so much weight in the past 18 months is because I have found a new love. I’ve not really tried to keep it secret. My family knows all about it. In fact my wife is quite keen on my new love, too, even if […]
My New Life Gets Off to a Running Start
I blame the sneakers. I ought to have known it was a mistake to buy white ones. (What an awful word ‘sneakers’ is! In my youth we had plimsolls, spikes for athletics, and soccer or rugby boots, but never ‘sneakers’. Not even my friends shod in thick crepe-soled shoes called ‘brothel-creepers’ would have worn something […]
Mnemonic Mneeded
I’ve always been good with numbers. We did mental arithmetic at Prince Rock Junior School, and I always scored near the top. Totting up columns of four-and-tuppences and such like was never much of a challenge when I had to collect on my paper round of a Friday night, and my GCE ‘O’ Level mark in mathematics (‘hard sums’, as a friend used to call it) was one of my best results. So it strikes me as passing strange that even though I can still add up my expenses without benefit of a calculator, I can’t remember my own phone number without some sort of memory aid. I can remember our church’s telephone number, 222-9110 (a stammered emergency call, with a surprised ‘Oh’ at the end, perhaps as the caller is discovered by her sadistic kidnapper), but none of my family’s numbers has anything so dramatic to bring it to mind.
One Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
A few days of my life have been stolen by the new flu. At least, the doctor thinks it was H1N1 although we have to wait ten days for the provincial labs to return the test results, by which time it will all be irrelevant. A week ago Monday, I got the feeling I might […]
The Heavenly Physician
I never intended to write a blog every day, but it has been a quite a few days since I last wrote anything. Truth to tell, I haven’t been feeling at all well since Thanksgiving (12 October). After preparing a large turkey feast, I had such a severe back ache that I felt nauseated and […]