Raincoat's blog

WELL...By 12pm today I had done 30 minutes of salsa, been to the hairdresser and supermarket, made a cauldron of fresh mushroom soup and written half an essay on terrorist incursions into the Niger Delta (which I shall have to revisit in a more normal state as it is doubtless a load of frantic drivel!) I am the laziest person in the world! - If I'd had my hands on this stuff years ago I could have been the Prime Minister…

Well, lucky old Ruth Kelly... Today, I finally heard the words I had semi-anticipated: "Stage IV"..."incurable"..."palliative care only"... blah blah blah How about this for irony: 22 years ago I was studying Russian in Minsk, [then] in Russia. I had received a letter from my mother telling me about how my dear 21-year old friend Ian had died from leukemia; I took the day off lessons and spent the morning thinking…