There are many marvels of modern medicine but there are also huge gaps. When my mother’s salt levels crashed I was introduced to the Endocrine system which, it turned out, are a series of organs in the body that are lumped together because they don’t fit in with the other systems – heart, lung, nerves…
Author: Daniel
Betrayal
It is hard to have trusted someone and find them out in a terrible series of lies they gave you in order to get their way. To find out she did this at the age of 74 is even more horrible as this is obviously a personality trait. When asked to admit to her lies…
By The Sea
Spent the morning on the Cornish coast in a little cove with the sun shining, the tide out and no one else on the beach. Just me and the dog and the world dying in every corner and as i handles a few of the stones and listened to the waves I thought of how…
In What To Trust
The plethora of laws covering just about everything we do proves that human beings cannot be trusted at their word. though, bizarrely, then tyrants tell you what they are going to do believe them, they usually do it. We cannot always trust our own eyes because the brain interprets so much we can be fooled….
Supplements
I would never discount the need for vitamins and minerals in our diets – we are after all a chemical factory and we need what we have evolved to need. What amazes me is that we have become so inured to bad food that we think supplements is the answer and not an organic preservative…
Kick the Left
I was talking to a friend yesterday and he made a rather cunning point about the Republicans min the USA. Attempting the explain the absurd economic policies they are pursuing he said their entire existence is to fight the socialist ideals they dislike. They do not realise once they have got rid of them, in…
Four Wheels May Be Too Many
This Easter weekend as every year the vintage motor cycle club brings its rally through the lane. some 300 + cars and motorbikes from the 1980s (and a few from earlier) take the challenge to cross parts of the country. This year has been very wet and the old tracks are filled with water and…
The World Waits
Putin wants the whole of the Soviet empire back. Iran wants the whole of Israel gone. Trump thinks money can be the deal maker but he is wrong. For some people money is neither the aim nor the difference. Call it vanity, religion, male hormones it doesn’t really matter, people will die and the USA…
Never Forget
The attempt down the ages to make us ethical thinkers has never worked on a national scale. There are many reasons for this but one of them is the sheer intensity of the work. To think through one’s every action and interaction to ensure it has the highest quality of ethical outcomes for us, is…
By All means
Forget that men and women once had a conscience and did not think money should rule our lives. The Song of the Shirt” is a poem written by Thomas Hood in 1843. It was written in honour of a Mrs. Biddell, a widow and seamstress living in wretched conditions. In what was, at that time, common practice, Mrs….