It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a young single man, in possession of no fortune, must be in want of fame and fortune. I wasn\’t really in want of either, setting out on the great adventure of life.When I was asked, just after getting my first real job (as distinct from tutoring work while doing
I once asked a farmer friend if he was concerned about the long-lasting drought of the time. He wasn\’t, he said, because every day the drought went on was another day closer to the drought ending. Real glass half-full stuff. For normal people, every negative cancer test since their last treatment for cancer is a
At the 3-monthly cancer review the oncologist should be like a town crier – \”It is February and all is well\”; \”It is May and all is well\”; \”It is August and all hell has broken loose, half the town is on fire, and the other half occupied by Goths and Vandals, try to stay
It is perhaps odd that outraged cries of \”Nanny State\” always relate to efforts to reduce the obscene profits of giant corporations for the benefit and the well-being of the general public. Or perhaps not.
If perfectly healthy people can suffer from hypochondria, do people with cancer suffer from hyperchondria?
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It\’s not just me, right? Everyone wants to become an adjective while they are still alive (preferably) or at least after death, don\’t they? Darwinian, Orwellian, Proustian, Churchillian, Dickensian – I mean, what have those guys got that I haven\’t? Apart from an ian after their name that is. Trouble is, what nouns would you want your
\”Social Media\” has become an oxymoron right up there with \”military intelligence\”. Occurs to me the increase in world nastiness corresponds to the rise and rise in social media use and the increasingly vicious people using it. Perhaps time to rename it as \”Antisocial Media\”.
When you wish upon a star, makes a big difference which one you choose. Your wish will take thousands, millions, billions of years to reach it, and the same time to get back to grant your wish. No wonder wishes don\’t get granted, eh? Prayers, too.
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