Update on Brian
Blogmaster Michael here.Brian is presently in 24 hour care, after having some radiotherapy recently. This has after-effects, sadly, and he is therefore doing it a bit rough at the moment. Hopefully...
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Not about to die, or I don’t think so, but yes, and trying to use my laptop. What with me being in a weakened state, everything now takes twenty times as long, no matter how simple it would have been...
View ArticleHello again
After writing the previous posting here, about how BMNB dot come is now being wound down, from a daily to an occasional blog, I was determined that my next piece of bloggage would be for Samizdata, and...
View ArticleThis Blog was fun while it lasted – but now it is approaching its end
First I got diagnosed with lung cancer, and that was bad. And then I started taking the pills, and that was good. The cancer got no worse, and I got better. But now the side effects, if that’s what...
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Some surprises at the Royal Marsden today
Now that the weather is good and Lockdown seems to be easing, I am doing a lot more getting out, but am in a physical state where properly thoughtful blogging is hard to do on a day when I will be...
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BMNB quote of the day: If you feel something is missing …
Here we go: It’s been a quiet day here at BMNB, which is not surprising given how wonderful the weather has been. Just the right amount of warm. Not a cloud in the sky. Perfect. Who, on a day like...
View ArticleArtificial brain-controlled limbs as brain therapy to reactivate real limbs
About a week ago now, I did a posting here about a monkey that had learned to pay pong using only its brain, with no merely physical contrivance whatever. Well, the other day (which other day is of no...
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I am starting to take exercise by doing exercises, which I have not done since my school days, which put me right off the whole idea. I am being supervised and guided and advised and encouraged by a...
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“587 tall buildings in the pipeline in London …”
This fake photo appears at the top of a piece about new building in London, this being how Nine Elms is about to look: If you regularly travel by helicopter anyway. Also adorning the same piece is this...
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Death matters and so does Surrey doing well
Earlier today I had a really serious phone conversation with my Designated Best Friend about palliative care, being kept alive with scary electric shock machines (which my DBF said actually work very...
View ArticleAn exercise lesson on Zoom
I can remember when e-mail became a necessity for me. I got a phone call from someone who asked: “What’s your email?” and I said “I don’t do email”. It was the way she then said “Oh” that made me...
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Pfaith
Seen recently at a Facebook Friend’s page: While searching for more about this, I came upon this recent story: A single pill home cure for Covid could be available by the end of the year, according to...
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Vincent House with tree shadows – Vincent Square with cricketers
Today I forced myself out, to post a letter which had to be posted, something I don’t think I’ve done in years. My guess as to where there was a posting box, or whatever they are called, took me to the...
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My habit of opening too many windows at once, and also the rather intrusive vagaries of my back-up system, mean that Twitter, for me, comes and goes. So it’s been a while since I took a look at the...
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A view from The Rooftop
Dined last night at this place. I photoed lots of photos, the four below showing the view that I later zoomed in on: The day was warm, what with it being cloudless. But the evening got cold, ditto....
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An unnatural looking tree near the Marsden
This morning I was at the Marsden, getting my second Covid jab, and the time after I left was the best weather for photoing of the day, by which I mean the sunniest. I photoed over a hundred photos,...
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Dutch Quality Flowers lorry with antique locomotive
This afternoon, while I was on my way yet again to the Royal Marsden to score my next month’s supply of Osimertinib, a huge lorry drove past me along the Fulham Road, with a painting of a steam...
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Backstage architecture
A big part of my life now is my visits to the Royal Marsden Hospital on the Fulham Road. I’m talking about this building: I show the above photo of the Marsden here. again, because I want now to draw...
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Another SF movie gadget at the Marsden
Yes, yet another big gadget in the Royal Marsden (see also this amazing piece of kit) that makes you think you are in a science fiction movie: I photoed this photo quite a while back now. What, I...
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I spent today postponing but mostly organising my death
I have spent my day doing two important things. First, and this only took a moment, I swallowed an Osimertinib pill. I take one of these pills every day. How hard is that? Harder than you might...
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