I’d been awake for about 20 minutes before my iPhone blared into life; Wake Up Boo filled the bedroom, and I leapt off the bed to switch it off before my wife woke. As is my habit, I flicked…
cancer
A collection of 6 posts
#next11 - Driven to Distraction
Warning: Liveblogging. Here be inaccuracy, errors and typos Here goes a session on attention, distraction and obsession: Jeremy Tai Abbett has set himself a challenge: answering a question What is continuous partial attention? Four steps to Zen: 1. Infinite Resources…
Losing Battles and Other Journalists' Clichés
People don’t lose battles with cancer. From the BBC’s Will & Testament blog: > It’s unfortunate, however, that The Daily Telegraph chose to run…
Ann Tinworth, 1939 - 2008
There are some phrases that your head just refuses to accept as applying to you. “My Mum is dead” is one of them. But my head is going to have to get used to the idea, as Mum passed away,…
My Brother is Fundraising
As some of you reading this might be aware, I lost my Dad to cancer five years ago. Now my Mum is fighting her own battle with it. Both of them have been hugely aided by the local Halesworth Community…