The age of 40 clearly used to be the turning point on health many years ago, the old saying "life begins at 40" should of course have been "death begins at 40" but fortunately, in most developed nations, mortality rates in 40 have dropped hugely and the majority can now expect to enjoy most of …
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Mortal
A few Fridays ago, I was sat in the coffee bar at Stafford railway station waiting for a train to London. A rarity these days as I am mostly working in Swansea and normally work from home on Fridays. My work phone rang but I failed to retrieve it from the depths of the correct …
Swimming again
Last year I had got into a healthy habit of swimming very regularly: pretty much every morning when staying in a hotel and also on Saturday and Sunday mornings at a hotel local to home with my eldest daughter. Then I got derailed earlier this year by, well, coughing – a bug that went around …
Eldest daughter returns from skiing trip
Her first skiing trip. Done with her school. Also her first time in Austria. It did involve a long trip each way by coach. She does not travel well and was unable to sleep on the coach which, given it is a 24+ hour trip she ended each journey in a pretty rough state. She …