Still Life With Cat

Well. Today I went to Hutt Street on a follow-up visit to the nice surgeon who removed my gall bladder and, while he was in there, (gulp) bi...

Long time no post once more, as I am balancing the meeting of deadlines with the managing of health Ishews. If you ever find yourself with t...

Because of reasons, I have perforce made the acquaintance in the last few weeks of a couple of bits of medical terminology with which I was ...

I've been trying intermittently to become an official organ donor for nigh on twenty years. Anyone who watched the 7.30 Report last nig...

The Age is reporting today that only one out of two Australian women in their 20s is having a regular pap smear test for cervical cancer. ...

The 'Say what?' feature at the Doonesbury site offers a daily sample of demented quotations from US public life. Here's today...

I spent most of the weekend in bed, snoozing, sneezing, coughing, groaning, spluttering, blowing my nose, monitoring the headache and the ea...

When writing first drafts I will usually bung in instructions to myself as I go along, most often [CHECK] where I have relied on memory for ...

Papa Cat got carted off to hospital yesterday after some sort of heart attackish thingy. Not very big, but there is some damage. Have spent...

(Actually I've never understood that expression. In my experience dogs tend to be either well or dead. It's not a big liminal zone w...

It's been a difficult couple of weeks and it's about to get worse; in addition to the usual four novels a week I have a fifth novel,...

It's a month since the World Health Organisation declared that the swine flu situation had reached Stage Five, the point at which the F...

A friend and regular reader of this blog emailed me a couple of hours ago about that last post to say that he'd looked up singulars and ...

Ouchy tooth. Just quietly and intermittently, but it's ominous. A long way back, and a long way down. I gravely fear we may be talking r...