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The Royal Marsden grand piano
Today I paid an actual face-to-face visit to the Royal Marsden. The Verdict was: I keep on with the magic pills, which will keep on doing me good. So: good. Here is a photo I photoed today while I was...
View ArticleSteve Davies: Four new technologies to be optimistic about
I seem to recall a lecture, given by Steve Davies at the IEA just before Covid and the political reaction to Covid started spoiling all our lives, in which he warned that modernity might be stopped in...
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Sniffer dogs and beavers – both doing well
Friday, so: animals. Obviously, I noticed this story about dogs with the superpower ability to smell prostate cancer in a blood sample a lot sooner than prostate cancer tends to be noticed now....
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Architectural modernism: Its triumph indoors and its battle out of doors
Today I was at the Royal Marsden, having a scan in a device that looked like this: In other words it looked like a time travel portal in a rather bad movie. That photo’s a bit blurry, but they only...
View ArticlePatrick Crozier and I talk about death – and lots of other things
The latest Patrick Crozier Brian Micklethwait “podcast” is up, although I prefer “recorded conversation”. Our subject was … well, basically some thoughts that were provoked by my recent lung cancer...
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The Royal Marsden and its money
One of the things Patrick Crozier and I talked about in our latest Recorded Conversation is how the Royal Marsden Hospital is more mixed economy than pure NHS. It supplies services to the NHS, but is...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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...
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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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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...
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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