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  • Reflections on 2019

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    It’s a bit late I know but it’s still important to reflect on a year just gone. From my personal point of view it’s been dominated by my big op. Actually it wasn’t really that big, ‘just’ an angioplasty to insert a stent into my right coronary artery which only took about 30 minutes, but…

  • Brexit: I don’t want to talk about it

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    Evan Davies, one of the BBC’s best news program hosts, was interviewing Bill Cash, a strongly Brexit supporting Tory MP, on PM on Radio 4 this last night. Evan asked ‘under what circumstances would you regard Brexit as a failure?’.

  • I went to a funeral today

    I went to a funeral today

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    That’s not that unusual and you’d maybe expect that at my age I’d be going to rather a few. However that’s not the case and I’ve only been to two or three a year in recent years; but with this one being in January maybe it’s setting me up for an bumper year.

  • Indonesia 2019 (and 2020)

    Indonesia 2019 (and 2020)

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    We’ve just spent a couple of days short of four weeks on holiday in Indonesia. It’s a longer trip than we’d normally make and with hindsight would have been better if it had been a few days shorter but you can’t change history so why dwell on it.

  • What’s the point? Five healthy foods to avoid.

    What’s the point? Five healthy foods to avoid.

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    I was chatting to one of the excellent nurses who’s helping me with my cardiac rehab. We were talking about diet and in general I find it easy enough to follow a cardiac friendly diet: lots of fruit and veg and no sat fat. I’ve done this single-mindedly for a couple of months now and…

  • Me and my stent: the first month

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    It seems like September was dominated by me getting to terms with having had an angioplasty and learning to live with a stent.

  • Three Thursdays in August (and the two weeks in between)

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    Thursday 15 Aug 19: It was a pretty standard day given that all my days are different anyway. I started with a photo session down in Orchard Park at 0830. Then a coffee at Thoroughbreads in Cowley Road before visiting Stagecoach with Orchard Park Community Council Chair Andrew Chan. I had lunch, an excellent fish…

  • 4 years in London

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    I lived in London for almost four years from September 1970. I lived in several flats, shared with a bunch of different people but all the time I worked for just one company, Royal Dutch Shell. They were formative years but I’ve got so say they were still a part of my growing up. I…

  • INTJ

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    If you’ve been subject to any sort of testing as a part of your job or similar chances are that you’ll have come across the work of Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers which assesses people according to four dimensions. The end result of the assessment is a personality type, there are 16 such types, which…

  • and finally …

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    Every month I do a monthly report on my life as a county councillor. Rather sad I know but if you’ve got the job you need to do what goes with it. To add a little colour to each report I add a final ‘and finally …’ paragraph. It’s generally non-political and reflects more on…