Overheard this morning, from an old Irish woman to an old Irish man on the Uxbridge Road:
So I says to him, you’ve got to start drinking tea and coffee, cause you need the vitamins in your diet….
Quite!
Month: December 2009
Invalid food
Peer is laid up in bed with a stinking cold, so it’s time for me to cook invalid food.
Bump … bump … ?
Cycling along the Rotten Row cycle path in Hyde park on a crisp winter evening is one of the great pleasures to be had in this city.
At least it was until speed bumps started appearing a couple of weeks ago. Continue reading “Bump … bump … ?”
Escape from neuro ward
Two and a half years ago, my partner Peer was admitted to Charing Cross Hospital for emergency brain surgery to remove a cyst that was obstructing the fluid flow in his brain. This surgery almost certainly saved his life. Today we returned to the hospital to get the results of his 2-year scans, and the professor of neurosurgery told him that they would no longer need to monitor his progress.
Matthew Butt 