It’s now Day 15 of my “Enhanced Recovery” following a Partial Knee Replacement at the Luton and Dunstable Hospital. What’s my take on all this? The surgery, performed by Mr Sanjay and his team, was a breeze. Ha ha – it must of been the drugs!!! epidural with the trimmings. The wonderful Anaesthetist was true […]
Well here we are at that time of year! Peace and goodwill towards all people? Well the current (almost perpetual) state of the world seems to contradict that! The song took shape, as many great songs do, around the dining table decked with pizza, crisps, red wine and Guinness! Diarmuid O’Leary, Ida Viant, Kym Wilson-deRoze
Ha ha – that all sounds a bit high-flown! But it’s a song I was fortunate to have composed on a Songwriting campfire lead by Dan Whitehouse – an award-winning artist and excellent teacher and mentor together with Katie Whitehouse (no relation a mover and shaker in the Music Business and a great artist in
That’s L I V E rather than going to live in Tokyo Bay. The Songwriters’ Campfires that I’ve been part of recently had an informal campfire on 31st March – thanks to Katie Whitehouse for facilitating and Dan (no relation) Whitehouse for leading us artistically. These songwriting Campfires have been inspirational, creatively motivating and fun.
Ha ha. I’ve been pretty much silent or invisible on my social media since the start of December. I do check our Facebook fairly regularly as there are lots of posts of old steam railways and some of my musical favourites post there. I’m not a Tweeter or an Insta-boy! I don’t seem to be
I’m Back! Where’ve I been for almost 3 months?… carry on reading
(I Know I’m a week or so Late!) That was my song for Advent 2022. Its lyrics are taken from a David Adam “New Psalm in the Celtic Tradition”. The musical activity is all mine – but I’m sharing it with you! Advent Sunday: not on the top of everyone’s Christian festivals. The whole Church’s
Please read the whole of this post – I’ve Good News to share. Tuesday 1st November; having survived the non-festival of Halloween I toddled down to the Royal Free to have the pump disconnected and its pipeline removed. Additionally a shed load of tests were to be carried out. My regular Clinical Trial Nurse Marvie
Good News! End of treatment: the end of the beginning!… carry on reading
Well, I left you all on a sort of precipice the other day. Time to share the on-going journey – with all its downs and ups! In answer to that pregnant question from the previous Blog – the third “ology” was Neurology. I will continue on to explain. Cycle 3 Week 1. This was going
It was just like . . . . . – on steroids”!!… carry on reading
I’m glad she told me after she’d done it! This is my account of what happened to me on the final day of Cycle One: Week Three. I should have been chillin’ down and relaxing with nice thoughts of nice things to in the coming “furlough” week. Instead I was in spasmodic pain from increasingly
“I didn’t think I was going to be able to do it!”… carry on reading
September is Blood Cancer Awareness month. CLL Support Association has long supported this: the huge “ROGER” in our back garden is testament to that. This year, 2022, CLLSupport wanted to promote “living well with CLL” and asked members for photo/video contributions of how they continue to “live well. ‘ Enjoying a little challenge – made
