Today my coffee tastes like Christmas in Costa Rica

  • Happy New Year 2021

    January 2 2021 It just occurred to me that I haven’t posted here for months so the start of a new year seems to be a propitious time. Time to reflect and the mirror for these reflections is deep this year. Not a year to simply reflect on my rec...
  • Surviving Covid-19

    May 3 2020 Well we are still here. Matt Hancock the government’s poster boy Time I put some more work into this blog. I have been terribly lazy and not visited here for some weeks so I should get off my backside…or rather on it&hell...
  • And Now For Something Completely Different.

    February 20 2020 Absolutely nothing to do with cancer I spotted this piece on the news today. It gave me so much joy and the hairs prickled on the back of my neck so I thought I’d share https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-51553381 ...
  • After Treatment

    This is an excellent article about life after treatment. I’ll put a link to it at the end in case anyone wants to save it but I thought I’d put the whole piece here. After the Treatment Finishes – Then What? Dr Peter Harvey Consulta...
  • Robot Surgery

    February 14 2020 A significant number of oropharyngeal tumours are in difficult to reach places and have conservatively been operated on by splitting the lower jaw and prizing the two parts apart (a bit of an oversimplification here, but humour me). ...