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Happy 2025!

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Welcome to a new and potentially extraordinary year. I am looking forward to making some long overdue changes here on the blog for 2025.  As...

Beastie Boy the hummingbird

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One of the things that has helped me get through 2024 is the ability to look back, with very little effort at the many pictures I have taken...

The Welcome Page

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This post used to be pinned to the top of the blog but I decided to let it move down the stack. It's purpose was, and still is, to expla...

Giant Cell Arteritis: Watch out for this nasty disease if you're female and over 40

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Women in their 40s or older need to be aware of a condition called giant cell arteritis or GCA. This article explains why. I'm not exagg...

Time to revisit high blood pressure and primary aldosteronism

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If you or someone you love is taking tablets for high blood pressure, now would be a good time to learn more about primary aldosteronism , a...

Prostate biopsy result: a tiny amount of non-aggressive cancer, now under Active Surveillance

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"A tiny amount of non-aggressive cancer" is probably the best biopsy result you can get, short of "no sign of any cancer at a...

Transperineal prostate biopsy: a patient's perspective

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If you happen to be wondering what a prostate biopsy is like, this article should prove helpful.  In August, I underwent something called a ...

Big fun with old UK maps? The National Library of Scotland delivers

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This is just a quick blog post to share some fun I've been having lately by combining old maps of England with current satellite photogr...

Cannabis-based medicine: a personal (UK) perspective

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On July 17, 2021, something very wonderful and special arrived at our address in England: cannabis-based medicine prescribed by an English d...

Missing links and images

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Like their creators, websites age over time, and sometimes they forget things, like where a particular image or document is located. This pa...