This afternoon I sent out an email message to about fifty or more of my nearest and dearest, saying that I now have lung cancer. Since among my nearest and dearest are those who read this little blog of mine with any regularity, here is the full text of what that said, for all you … Continue reading I have lung cancer
I just sent out this, to all the people on my regular Brian’s Fridays email list. All readers of this blog should also consider themselves invited. Brian’s Very Last Friday approaches. But it is not at the end of this month. It will be on the first Friday of September, which is September 3rd, at … Continue reading Brian’s Very Last Friday at the IEA
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 they are, are starting to pile up, the worst of these being a loss of appetite, … Continue reading This Blog was fun while it lasted – but now it is approaching its end
I just received an email from Dominic Frisby, plugging his latest aria video, which is entitled I Love Wetherspoons! State of the art culture warfare, which I highly recommend. The aria, not Wetherspoons. I’m not saying that I don’t recommend Wetherspoons, merely clarifying the point I am and am not making there. So far so … Continue reading Frisby sings about Wetherspoons and Bollocks
Just over a year ago, in May 2020, I went walkabout, across the River, after Lockdown had really started to kick in. At the time, I wrote here about how I crossed Lambeth Bridge, and then …: … wandered in the general direction of Waterloo, and made a strange discovery, which I’ll tell you all … Continue reading A strange discovery on the other side of the River from me
Castelnou is a small and impossibly picturesque hill town in the lower reaches of the Pyrenees, in the far south of France. GodDaughter2’s parents and I went by car, just over five years ago now, in May 2016, to check it out. And yes, the weather was as marvellous in Castelnou as it has recently … Continue reading Castelnou
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 realise that something had happened. There hasn’t been a single moment like this for me … Continue reading An exercise lesson on Zoom
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, which is not something I have recently done. Not since February, during that little warm spell … Continue reading An unnatural looking tree near the Marsden
I hope you are having one. I definitely am, and I will tell you (a big part of) why. This, on YouTube, from Steve Baker MP, no less. Just over two minutes long, so not a big chunk out of your life it you follow the above link and watch it all. I’ll surely have … Continue reading Happy Easter!
Indeed: I encountered this glorious airplane on Twitter, but just now Twitter is refusing to load onto my computer, for some idiot reason to do with me refusing to update or generally do as commanded, so you’ll just have to take my word for it. The posting in question is, in any case, unworthy of … Continue reading The Airbus A390 “Clickbait” – etc.