Our recent trip to the one of the spiritual hearts of Absinthe, the Val de Travers in Switzerland, was memorable for a whole host of reasons. But one experience in particular stood out. “We’re heading off to the secret fountain.” OK, I thought, time to see some cheesy tourist attraction with some vague connection with [...]
Every so often I am called to mevio‘s San Francisco offices for a week or so of business, meetings, and general face-to-face bonding. I never look forward to the disruption of travel and being away from home, but am invariably grateful for them. This time proved to be a very different experience to previous trips. [...]
I wrote about my recent hospital experience back in March ( A Slice of Hospital Life ). This week brought the final follow-up appointment with the surgery team to check that all was well. Not to complicate matters, I opted not to change my hospital details following our move to Cornwall. So Monday’s final hospital [...]
Digital cameras are like automatic transmission cars: convenient and practical, but make me feel much less involved. So, right now, I’m going through a little traditional film phase. I recently picked up a FED4b 35mm film, rangefinder camera (see inset image). It is built like a Russian shot-putter, and you don’t half know its weight [...]
I’m unaccustomed to dealing with medical problems, so the prospect of undergoing a routine surgery came not without some trepidation. This was to be a hernia repair. Possibly the result of lugging a humongous 32-inch Sony CRT television set up two flights of stairs a couple of years ago (as at least two people who [...]
