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One Giant Leap..?
I was a month old when Apollo 11 arrived on the moon, and three years old when Apollo 17 left. I’m not a child, with a future ahead of him; I’m a forty year old man more than halfway into his three score and ten, with as much life behind him as he might hope…
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A Feminist Perspective On Denis Walsh
By friend Brian has, in comments to my previous post, pointed me at a very interesting article that puts the case for Denis Walsh, the midwife who caused something of a stir by apparently suggesting that pain in childbirth is a good thing. It is true that we’re all basing our opinions on newspapers’ intrepretations…
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Now That’s A Response
Yesterday, the blogo-twittersphere was buzzing with the news that Dr Denis Walsh, associate professor in midwifery at Nottingham University, had written a piece in Evidence Based Midwifery in which he stated his belief that pain in childbirth is a good thing, and something that women should not attempt to avoid through such pain-killing methods as…
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Incoming!
4Paws was very cute last night. It was one of those moments that I guess makes owning a dog so special. She’s always pretty happy to see me when I arrive home, but when I arrived home last night she’d apparently been having a nap, and was thus even more excited and energetic than usual.…
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Adam Marek’s Instruction Manual For Swallowing
A few weeks ago, I went to Tales of the Decongested, an event about which I didn’t blog because I was more concerned over the disappearance of my entire website, due to what turned out to be some kind of idiotic cock-up by my hosting company. So what I didn’t mention was that I met…
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I Have A New Girl In My Life
She’s seven-months old, black and white, and is always sure to greet me with a wagging tail when I get home from work. Yes, we have a dog. In accordance with my long standing policy of protecting people’s privacy by using Internet handles rather than their real names, I will henceforth refer to her as…
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Marie Phillips at London Writers’ Club
Last night I went to the London Writers Club to hear a talk by Marie Phillips, author of Gods Behaving Badly. (You may remember that I mentioned this event last week). It was really good. She gave a lot of good advice, too much to mention, so I’ll just mention two things that really struck…
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Fate Is A Thriller Writer, And Loves Its Twists And Turns
The unpleasant case of the killing of Ian Tomlinson by a Metropolitan Police officer has managed, somehow, to get even weirder and more disturbing. Here is the full sequence of events, as revealed by the Guardian. 1) An off-duty police officer in the Metropolitan police, while on sick-leave due to a shoulder injury, is involved…
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Two Things I Learned On A Greek Holiday
I don’t know what they’re like in battle, but if the way they ride their mopeds is any guide, the Greeks must be the bravest people on Earth. I got used to the near-total absence of helmets worn. (I saw just enough to realise that they do know what helmets are, they just see little…
Jonny Nexus 