Third time lucky?

  • Poo(h) sticks save the day

    In 2015 I was invited by the NHS bowel screening programme to send them samples of my stools, which I did promptly. It was the second time I was taking part, the first time two years before the test was clear. But this time I was asked to repeat, the...
  • Dedicated to the one that took my place (male breast cancer)

    In 2013 I had a scare for breast cancer. It turned out to be benign gynaecomastia, but for a few days I was obviously worried. In the aftermath and heaving a sigh of relief, I wrote the following. The Clive referred here is Clive James, whose lyric w...