What exactly was happening in my world in a ‘long-ago age’ almost forty years ago? I expect, a little like Carrie Fisher’s Princess Diarist-A sort of memoir, I can’t really remember exactly how it was all panning out; any journals have long since disappeared and, given...
Perhaps nothing should surprise us in 2017. The UK is moving closer to the triggering of Article 50. The USA is heading inevitably towards a constitutional crisis and Russia is about to decriminalise domestic violence. Soon it will no longer be a crime for a husband to hit his...
I read my first Dickens novel, Great Expectations, at the age of ten. I would read it before bedtime and in the early mornings before going to school. This wasn’t a book I had been encouraged to read by my teachers, this was a book...
Well worth a read is this brief account of a recent world-wide study of high blood pressure published in the online edition of the Economist. ONE in eight deaths worldwide is due to high blood pressure. The condition is the main risk factor for heart and...