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 [...]
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 [...]
I have memories of visiting model villages as a child, little did I expect to end up driving around one. Our typical exploratory excursions, sans GPS, consist of defining a destination or three, making a wrong turn or two, and at least once impulsively detouring to explore something that whispers of old stuff to look [...]
My personal 2008 was all about “less noise; more substance“. I just know that come January 1st this year, you roused from your alcoholic slumber with but one intent: find out what Neil’s 2009 is all about, right? OK, perhaps not, but in the somewhat unlikely case you did, and have been gnawing on your [...]
It’s official, now that I am well on the way to completing Persistent Spirit, I can say I officially do not enjoy writing. But hand me the chance to this it full-time, and I’d bite your arm off faster than a starving mongoose with a genetically enhanced disposition for arm-biting. It’s not the writing itself [...]
