Author: Interloper11

It’s chilly outside. Continue reading “And now it’s down to business”

Well it’s been over a year since the purchase of our schnoodle replacement dog, and in the meantime Ruby is maintaining her tenacious grip on life out of sheer bloody mindedness, it seems. Continue reading “Cancer dog update”

Popped into Animates pet shop today for quick perusal of the piscine offerings. What I saw horrified me. (Click bait? Moi?) Continue reading “The killing fields”

Just sitting down with a glass of wine on the 6th of January, Continue reading “Thoughtful”

As I was cycling up the hospital driveway this morning, a taxi driver coming the other way gestured rudely at me, angrily pointing at the road as if to say “How is a man meant to do an honest day’s work when uppity cyclists keep muscling onto their roadway?” Continue reading “In the way”

One of my daughters has “borrowed” my bike helmet so I decided I’d buy a new one today. Continue reading “Head case”

Like many cities, Wellington empties out during the Merryneum. Continue reading “Working hard or hardly working?”

They say the first casualty of war is truth. Continue reading “Singular”

I love Christmas, but my favourite week of the year is this one, between Christmas and New Year. Continue reading “Just chilling”

In the face of increasing complexity in medicine, with a boom in technologies allowing more and more detailed investigations  of patients, there has also been a commonsense swing in the direction of a more holistic approach to patient assessment. Continue reading “Unbalanced”