Reading time: 2 mins Everything happens at once. It’s always the way of these things, the calendar remains empty until, all of a sudden you realise you have a concert and a leaving do to attend one evening, and a day/evening session in the pub the next day. Such is the case this coming Friday, Radiohead gig at Glasgow…
Reading time: 2 mins The more it starts to let me down, the more interesting my body becomes. Today I visited the physio again to restart my failed effort at getting back to running. I learned that my knees have a good level of hyperextensibility (they can be bent ever so slightly the wrong way, if that makes sense),…
Reading time: 2 mins You know when, during a conversation with someone, something they say just clicks and seems so obvious that you wonder why on earth you hadn’t realised it until now? I had such a moment recently and the clarity of what was said was quite startling. I’m mourning my ability to run. It’s quite a simple…
Reading time: 2 mins I wasn’t planning on following up the previous post, but given the amount of time people have taken to respond, and how thought provoking those responses were/are I think I should take a moment to address a couple of things. Like Pete, says: I go through phases where I use the computer a lot, and…
Reading time: 3 mins The man was once a boy, and that boy remembers sitting in front of a large cream box which had a keyboard of mainly dark keys with a row of red ones at the top. He wasn’t sure why the television people had made such a thing but he enjoyed watching the items on screen…
Reading time: < 1 min Just a quick one as I’m back from the doctors where my blood pressure (after 4 weeks of increasing amounts of an ACE inhibitor) is now 144/86. The upper number (systolic) is easily changed, run up a flight of stairs and it’ll rise. Sit still for 20 minutes and it will fall. The lower number…