SubscribeListening to the radio while doing something else last Saturday, I heard John Bercow, the Speaker of the House Of Commons, talking about music.
For me, part of the beauty of radio is that you hear all sorts of interesting things you wouldn’t have come across otherwise, and this was a case in point. John Bercow [...]
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Don’t give up
Plugging the holes
After I wrote yesterday’s post I got to thinking. Yes, cancer treatment side-effects have had a big effect and yes, it’s quite depressing to realise how membrane-thin my good health is.
But.
In my cupboard, there are tubs of vitamin C, zinc, and cod liver oil tablets, all of which have been unopened since about 5 days [...]
Fooled
Almost nothing in the body works in the way we perceive that it works. What we experience as a simple reaction – smell, touch, warmth – is a complex set of sensory, muscular and neural activity, so efficient and smooth that we can walk into a room and say, “Those lilies smell fantastic,” without it [...]
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