Washing-up for Spoonies…

Of all the routine household tasks, washing-up is the one that can’t be shirked (but it is!), even though it’s arguably the most painful and exhausting. Or it was, until today, when I came up with a wizard wheeze (pun definitely intended!). Every six hours, I have to hit the kitchen to take my next [...]

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A Happy New Year to Everyone who doesn’t live in Downing Street, Westminster!

I hadn’t intended to write an end of the year post, but what the hell . . . 2011 has, arguably, been the worst year of my life, blighted by medical care, in Arrowe Park Hospital, Wirral, which can only be described as abysmal, culminating in their omitting to record their diagnosis of heart failure, [...]

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Man-made superflu – not really a good idea. Part 2…

A little while ago I wrote about the stupidity of manipulating the H5N1 bird flu virus to make person-to-person transmission easy. The following, from the BBC News website confirms just how right I was to feel that way:-

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Tablet/Netbook stand…

Just bought one of these for my Netbook. The lower position is

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Last word about Yodel – for now, at least…

Whether it’s anything to do with everything I’ve written about them on this blog, on Twitter, or directly to Amazon, Yodel delivered my last Amazon order today, just 2 days after despatch.** Mind you, even that was touched by weirdness

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Kenwood Silver Premier Chef – a warning…

The bowl with this machine is spin-moulded. This leaves parallel tool marks all over the circumference if both the inside and outside, which no attempt has been made to polish out, which results in a rough texture. On the outside, this doesn’t matter, and might even be an advantage, in that it doesn’t show finger [...]

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Sainsbury’s meat and added water… Again!

I know I keep banging on about the excessive wetness of meat (and smoked fish),  from Sainsbury’s, but it really is a major problem – we are paying meat prices for water. Whether it’s a product of dubious production methods (slaughterhouses not allowing slaughtered animals to bleed out sufficiently, and the meat not hung for [...]

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Some Ideas for Living with Chronic Illness…

About which all I can say is, they work for me… A few days ago I was accused – in a nice way – of being too bloody-minded to die. It is, I suppose, quite true. At least that was also my late aunt’s view, and she’d known me all my life, so who am [...]

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London 2012 – and after…

For the Olympic Games, 13,500 troops will supplement the police presence. Given the behaviour of this government, and of the Met, one is forced to wonder how swiftly thereafter they will be redeployed? Or will they? Wouldn’t this be a wonderful opportunity to have troops permanently stationed in the capital, for the express purpose of [...]

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Aliens? What aliens?

Over in the land of the free and slightly unhinged, Prof Paul Davies and Robert Wagner at Arizona State University, are trying to encourage every tinfoil-hat wearing  fruitcake to scour over 340,000 (currently, but expected to top 1 million), photographs of the lunar surface in a quest for alien artefacts like, no doubt, a

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