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I came across a claim today that in mid-life our brains undergo some kind of expansion and that is why we are, in our dotage, rather wiser t...

I have acquired my own digital blood pressure monitor, and the answer to the question in the title to this blog entry – hypochondriac, nutte...

Hi Kate, I am on a different iBook and don't seem to have your email address with me. I have just got back from London and was trying ou...

Well, there's this for those bored enough to like this sort of thing (obviously me, for one), but the trouble is I stumble through the w...

The obscure website to which I subscribe which claims to ‘monitor’ traffic to this blog — and I don’t even begin to understand how it works ...

Not posted anything here for a while, and I don’t know why not. There’s no particular reason, it’s just that from scribbling here about once...

I’ve worked as a hack since 1974, which makes it 36 years man and boy, and I have met and worked with quite a few other hacks (a disproporti...

Is this familiar? You have known someone for many years, and in those early days you both regarded each other as friends. But latterly, in t...

I have once or twice in the past alluded to my pretensions to wanting to be ‘a writer’. I have also confessed that for someone with such pre...

I am, apparently, just a pair of piss-stained trousers away from lying in the gutter and drinking meths. That, at least, is my wife’s opinio...