This was going to be about death. A few weeks back, I was listening to a Pink Floyd album, one of the seminal bands of my late teens and early twenties. I looked at the date of the album, and realised that they’d essentially broken up 25 odd years ago, and two of them were […]
Today we were taking my eldest daughter out for a treat, her very first movie at the cinema, Cinderella. Not far from it, I pointed out a landmark from my childhood, a kindergarten with crazy sculptures of a copyright infringing Yogi Bear and Huckleberry Hound. I told her we used to look out for it […]
Just in case anyone thought the blog was getting soft. In honour of tomorrow’s colonoscopy, a flashback from nearly four years ago, and my first one. To paraphrase the old Bali tshirt – my brother went to Mexico and all he brought me back was this lousy gastro-intestinal parasite. Blastocystis hominis has similar symptoms to […]
This is when the wheels really fell off… Halfway through my six weeks of chemotherapy, my wife’s grandfather died. Two days later I got sacked from my job. They gave me four weeks notice out of a feeling of guilt. No shit. We later laughed that if it was the plot of a movie or […]