Life at the top of the slope
I am about to journey to the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, at the far end of the Fulham Road, to get two distinct sets of X-rays done. Chest, and hip. I have been coughing a lot. And I have pains...
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I’m pretty sure that’s not the problem
I made my trip (see below) to Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, and the trip had the effect of making the state I was in, i.e. the reason I went, worse. Any posture is uncomfortable for me just now....
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Photos by Jim Turney of the Libertarian International World Convention of 1984
In 1984, I was one of many who helped organise a big Libertarian Conference at Royal Holloway College. US libertarian Jim Turney was one of those who attended, and he took these photos, which he has...
View ArticleFlash grief
So here I was, all set to do a great excerpt from a book about Beethoven. But then, my scanning software suddenly wasn’t working. I alerted The Guru. After the usual palaver about “Is it plugged in?”...
View ArticleSteve Davies: Four new technologies to be optimistic about
I seem to recall a lecture, given by Steve Davies at the IEA just before Covid and the political reaction to Covid started spoiling all our lives, in which he warned that modernity might be stopped in...
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I spent today postponing but mostly organising my death
I have spent my day doing two important things. First, and this only took a moment, I swallowed an Osimertinib pill. I take one of these pills every day. How hard is that? Harder than you might...
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APEROL brightens up Bankside
When I met up with GodDaughter2 last week at the Blue Fin Building I got there a bit early and had some time to kill. Which of course I did by photoing, one of the photos I photoed being this: What...
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A strange discovery on the other side of the River from me
Just over a year ago, in May 2020, I went walkabout, across the River, after Lockdown had really started to kick in. At the time, I wrote here about how I crossed Lambeth Bridge, and then …: … wandered...
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The age of colourful architecture is getting nearer every day but will still...
There’s another street furniture competition going on, in London so I got an email about it. Follow that link, and you will find photos of the shortlisted ones. Here are six of those photos: You know,...
View ArticleHello again
After writing the previous posting here, about how BMNB dot come is now being wound down, from a daily to an occasional blog, I was determined that my next piece of bloggage would be for Samizdata, and...
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