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Signing off with the quack

Yesterday, some six months after my previous visit, I attended an appointment with my consultant at a London hospital in order to assess my progress since being diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the right hip. On the last occasion we met, as part of the experience, I had a second x-ray and a steroid [...]

November 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

Informed is better than not (I think)

Media reports today feature the news that medical researchers have now developed a test or series of tests which can tell any individual their supposed ‘brain age’ – and therefore their likelihood of suffering the onset of dementia. See here for an example – by Ian Johnston in THE [...]

November 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

Taking control of the situation

Having been a bit of a tart in my youth – tending to sleep with any girl that would have me – I liked to think that in my maturity (viz. from the age of 25 onwards) I gradually grew up and became adult in my approach to relationships. In short, I became more discerning. Gradually this shift in [...]

October 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Breaking out

After 14 days of torture in the fitness centre I was ready to break out with a few days in my beloved Marylebone. I met with the family investment advisor who would benefit from the same course as me in diet and exercise but otherwise offered useful advice in these turbulent times and markets. In [...]

October 24, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sign o’ the times

My father, who turned 89 last week, set off yesterday to have lunch in central London with an old colleague, a peer of the realm, and his daughter. The occasion had been proposed by the daughter, who had bumped into my father outside the Gate cinema at Notting Hill Gate – introduced herself [...]

October 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Don’t believe everything you read

I was – as former Premier John Major might have put it – not inconsiderably amused this week when reading media reports that the charity Independent Age and International Longevity Centre (UK) were warning that the number of men aged over-55 living alone, and therefore at risk of extreme [...]

October 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

Progress report

Yesterday I had my first consultation, a week into my new regime of diet and exercise. I am pleased to report that I have lost 2 kilos and that the loss is in fat not muscle. All that gazung but refusing pastries, the endless water, the half bottle of Mercurey still to be finished, the Prosecco in [...]

October 14, 2014 // 0 Comments

A new regime

Yesterday I attended at a weight loss and fitness centre. I finally took on board the strictures of numerous medicos that I must lose weight. It was a dreadful regime to which I was subjected of no alcohol at all for 14 days, tuna and salads and a snack comprising a piece of fruit and 5 [...]

October 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

It’s that time of year again

These past three days I have been developing my first ‘bug’ of the winter. I cannot remember whether the beginning of October is about par for me, or whether it’s a bit earlier than usual this year. It all began on Tuesday, when I detected the first stirring of a tickle in my throat which [...]

October 4, 2014 // 0 Comments

The cost of getting it up

I suppose it was inevitable that there had to be a downside to something which can give such great pleasure to the human race – and indeed indirectly cause it to perpetuate itself. This week media stories have it that the drug Viagra, which over the past decade or so has grown into considerable [...]

October 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

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