Category: News

Worth a listen

There’s nothing that cheers up a morning quite like listening to an interview with the Dalai Lama, i find.
It shouldn’t really be quite so happy-making. The situation in Tibet is horrible, the idea of ladies with poison in their headscarves trying to murder a 76 year old monk surreal. (Oh, OK, and also a tiny [...]

Cancer in the news

It looks like all of that money we’ve been putting in tins, all of those bags taken to cancer research shops, all of the sponsored walks and swims and cycles and silences, all of that consenting to trials and donating ourselves to medical research, is paying off.
There may be a drug to help with pancreatic [...]

Goodbye, Mr. Whiskers

Yesterday, I took Mr. Whiskers, our nearly-16-year-old moggie, to the vet, to be put down. It was a sad but serene occasion: he was ready to go, and when the moment came he just stretched out and relaxed, just the way he used to in the sunshine.
People who knew Mr Whiskers in his London years [...]