Death

No title

I delayed posting this as I searched for a title. I looked everywhere, but found none, and today is as good a day as any. +++++++++++++++++++++++++ What matters an anniversary when you’re dead?When time has ceased to govern,And become only another directionOf places you will not visit. The earth traveled around the sun,But you wereContinueContinue reading “No title”

Alan

A good friend, and sometime retired colleague of mine received a call from a hospital worker at the beginning of January. Her number was one of very few in Alan’s phonebook, Alan had died after a week in hospital did she want to arrange a funeral? She didn’t. She befriended Alan as after they’d workedContinueContinue reading “Alan”

Tinned pears

How many wives make their own tinned pears, From pears grown on their husband’s tree? These were a triumph! But this the last jar. Had you been saving it, Or were they just lost beneath our bed? . None of that nasty grape juice here But proper sugar syrup, And strange foreign bodies Of someContinueContinue reading “Tinned pears”

If you love me,

If you love yourself, or if you love anyone, listen to this and be shaken by it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001r7jn?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile It is Roger Hallam, ex farmer and co founder of extinction rebellion, whom I’ve not heard of before, speaking through Nick Robinson and radio 4. It is painful to hear two people using the same words toContinueContinue reading “If you love me,”

Keep off the blog

The pain of the loss of a very difficult woman.

This is the road to hell.

The fuel duty escalator was devised, or enacted 1st in 1993 by her Majesty’s Government in Britain which was led by John Major. The tax on fuel to Britain and Northern Irelands’ motoring public was set 3p in the pound above inflation and increased ultimately by Mr Blair to 6p This was not only aContinueContinue reading “This is the road to hell.”

The corpse’s protest.

Who are you? —— That put flowers on my grave? Did you love me? —— Did you care? Did I know you? ——- Could I trust you? Could you know —— I didn’t choose to be alone? Don’t you know —— I had a heart of stone? And you comment; What a pity ——- ThatContinueContinue reading “The corpse’s protest.”

Deaths Peripheral to Sars Covid II No 1, The Track Worker.

Summary of R.A.I.B. finding. At around 10:52 hrs on Wednesday 8 April 2020, a passenger train, travelling at 90 mph (145 km/h), struck and fatally injured a track worker on the West Coast main line near the village of Roade, Northamptonshire. The accident happened because the track worker, who was the person in charge ofContinueContinue reading “Deaths Peripheral to Sars Covid II No 1, The Track Worker.”

Christmas and the NHS

Salbutomol 100mcg 2x daily if required Beclamethazone 200mcg 1x daily, Calcium and Vitamin d3 600mg & 400IU, (10mcg) x2 twice daily. Alendronic Acid 70mg x1 once weekly. Folic acid 5mg once daily. Methotrexate 20mg injected once weekly, skip folic acid on this day. Tacrolimus 0.1% ointment once daily applied externally to affected areas as required.ContinueContinue reading “Christmas and the NHS”

Short poem about death

From Alfred, Lord Tennyson Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me!And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea, But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam,When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after thatContinueContinue reading “Short poem about death”