Monthly Archives: June 2008

A Daily Mail Reporter Writes…..

RAF blow up world’s biggest drugs haul RAF Harrier jump jets have blown up the world’s biggest drug haul in Afghanistan by dropping three 1,000lb bombs on a 237-ton stash of cannabis. The haul – worth £225million and weighing more than 30 double-decker buses – was unearthed by the Special Boat Service and local commandos. The drugs were [...]
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Health Update, AKA Burning Rats….

I hate doing this to Doc G. He’s a good doctor and really wants to get me well. But pretty much everything he prescribes for me makes me iller than the original condition. So I started the Diltiazem yesterday. By evening, I was getting signs of vaso-dilation/hypertension – headache, blurred vision, wrist-swelling (I [...]
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Health Update….

Got to see Doc G this morning – had to cancel Friday’s appointment because we went off to Glasgow to pick up a printer. Yesterday, I had yet another tachycardia attack – took an 80mg Solatol betablocker and spent the rest of the day exhausted and lying on the sofa in a fuzzed-out haze. The [...]
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I Am Reading…

Duma Key by Stephen King I have to confess that I haven’t read that many Stephen King books. So this could be far from being one of his best. However, it’s very nearly the best King that I‘ve read so far. 1992’s Dolores Claiborne and last year’s Lisey’s Story I’d class as he very best; [...]
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Another Health Whinge….

I’m going to have to go back on the betablockers – I’m seeing Doc G about it tomorrow. My tachycardia attacks are getting more frequent and more disabling; they rarely last for less than five or six hours now. Any kind of stress seems to set them off now – travelling, having a late night, [...]
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Thought For the Day….

Why don’t multiple personalities ever develop multiple personality disorder?
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