Jonny Nexus

Category: Life

  • 1st October Is Dog Freedom Day!

    Brighton is a wonderful place to live, but it does have a darker side. Not everyone is equal, and not everyone is welcome. Freedoms the rest of us take for granted – the right to roam where we will – are not enjoyed by all of us. Yes. I’m talking about dogs being banned from…

  • I’m Not Sure That’s Helping

    Human life has always involved balancing risks against reward, and I sometimes think that the more information we have available to us, the harder this gets. Take swine flu, for example. Compared with some diseases of the past, this is a pussy-cat, and yet it’s already managed to escalate to a serious political crisis. When…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…