OK, maybe my surgeon was right with his sneering comment about sport last week

I was working with a neurosurgeon yesterday who said “sport is theatre for stupid people” and I found it really hard to explain to him why he was wrong, particularly about test cricket…

It happened again yesterday. I got mistaken for another anaesthetist. This in spite of wearing a scrub hat with my name on it.

I only discovered eyebrow tinting a few months ago, but I love it.

Disclaimer: I’m normally not a fan of live gigs. A roomful of strangers is no picnic for someone with social anxiety; it’s usually too loud (and I’ve got plenty of friends with hearing damage from going to over-loud concerts in our youth); it’s expensive; and I actually usually prefer the studio version of songs to… Continue reading In defense of live music

Have been very keen to stay up with the play with Cyclone Gabrielle over the last couple of days,

I’ve been rewatching the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, and I have to say it’s aged really well.

My father was a wonderful person, the best of all men in fact, but he disapproved of swearing.

Am two months into my meditation journey.

Every once in a while I’ll wake up in the middle of the night from an awful nightmare and find myself terribly physically uncomfortable, usually overheating and needing to throw off all my blankets whilst still groggily under the spell of my dream.