Category Archives: health

coronavirus – an April and May view from Padstow

Posted on April 2, 2020 by

May 24, 2020 Another example of Padstow’s attitude towards social distancing. Kim and Asta are out for their early afternoon stroll along Sarah’s Lane. Two women approach. Asta is plodding along as usual meaning Kim can’t get far enough away … Continue reading →

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coronavirus – a March view from Padstow

Posted on March 27, 2020 by

Monday March 30, 2020 A sign of the loneliness this death is bringing came to Dennis Road this morning. A love, admired and respected member of the community Rosemary Brinham was take from her home, Wingfield House, in Dennis Lane, … Continue reading →

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Just A Piece Of Cake

Posted on March 12, 2020 by

I remember clearly where I was when I tasted my first palmier. I was following a designated tourist route around Marseille’s Old Port accompanied by a woman from the local office de tourism: she pointed over there for the embarkation … Continue reading →

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too much information

Posted on December 11, 2019 by

There’s a scene in The Kominsky Method, that wry Netflix study of septuagenarians, when recently widowed bitter sweet Alan Arkin turns to the man behind the wheel, his thespian best friend Michael Douglas, and with an expression of despair says: … Continue reading →

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where am I? A very meaty issue?

Posted on October 31, 2019 by

I don’t know how many times I have driven east towards London over the course of 25 years on the A303, passing Stonehenge making for the M3? Let’s settle for 150 times, it can’t be far off. So imagine how … Continue reading →

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Getting To The Bottom Of It

Posted on May 2, 2019 by

I would be lying if I said I was looking forward to my ‘flexible sigmoidoscopy’; in layman’s terms, a camera inserted inside the bottom. Nonetheless, this is the procedure for those such as I who have endured a bout of … Continue reading →

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forget everything you ever learnt about a balanced diet

Posted on April 3, 2019 by

Shortly before she died, in a hospital similar to the one I recently  myself in, my mother asked for her Christmas present a Ralph Lauren watch. I’d bought her a watch a only a couple of years earlier yet despite … Continue reading →

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