Angelic
Day 5 (though it feels more like 105 – to me, and probably by now to you too) since I tried to turn the flexible but protective box of my rib cage into a postable delivery envelope, and I’m still … Continued
Looking up
I had a rheumatology appointment at Stratford Hospital this morning, the anticipation of which made me a little tense, because these meetings haven’t always been entirely enjoyable. Today though, my rheumatologist pronounced my bloods to be “perfect”, made no change … Continued
Coordination
It poured with rain for much of the day, and I was dubious about the Met Office forecast that we were due a late spell of sunshine, but as I came out of the supermarket early this afternoon I realised … Continued
Almost-mono Monday
It was another of those days when it felt as if it would rain for ever, but it wasn’t as heavy as the forecast had suggested it might be, and R and I had some errands to run, so we … Continued
Local Ice Cream
From time to time I amuse myself by wondering what people from the past would think of the way we live now, if they suddenly time-travelled forward from their own era. This pondering began at a time when I was … Continued
A chaos of gulls
A dreary, damp Monday morning in Stratford was enlivened by quarter of an hour at the river, watching a succession of people arriving and throwing bird food, and the absolute scenes that immediately followed. ‘Feeding frenzy’ barely covers it. As … Continued
