“You’ve had an accident on your bike,” a familiar voice gave me something I knew. “You’re in the hospital,” and the familiarity fled with being awake. A few more dreams, and I slowly recognised myself lying in bed, surrounded by scrubs and unfortunate people. I pushed myself upright, and oddly felt the mattress move beyond… Read More
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Friday, June 24th, 2011 Tags: consultant, doctors, hospital, injury, lessons
Category: Featured, Life, Narrative, Perspective 6 Comments 
The internet is full of information of dubious quality, and I have recently spent quite a bit of time trawling a particular subsection of this by trying to trace family information. I have found many lists of names, and I appear to be lucky that my maternal side seems to have been recorded doing things… Read More
Friday, April 29th, 2011 Tags: American folklore, Queen, Richard Payton Bailey, United Kingdom
Category: Featured, Life, Narrative, Perspective No Comments
Guest post by Stephen Leighton So who am I? My name is Stephen Leighton and I’m the owner and head roaster at Has Bean Coffee based in Stafford. Has Bean is an online retailer, roasting and selling fine specialty coffees from all around the world direct to home consumers. So, before I go into the… Read More
Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 Tags: Bolivia, coffee, Food and drink, online retailer, Specialty coffee, Stephen Leighton
Category: Coffee, Featured, Narrative 1Comment
I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with sleep. I can remember being so upset I couldn’t sleep because I had to go to bed. Maybe this has bled into the present. The funny part of it all, is I’d much rather not be asleep most of the time. My wife has always confused me with… Read More
I have just discovered that I would have made a worthless vet. It is a good thing, because I have sometimes wondered if I should have chosen that course following a degree I have at times considered unhelpful (linguistics). Perhaps I should clarify that my wife is a vet, and that I sometimes feel that… Read More
Thursday, December 27th, 2007 Tags: catheter, fainting
Category: Narrative No Comments
So, Tim Ferris has decided to start punching people. I know, shocking. I have often thought about this, and thought about the consequences of actually carrying out my own form of impromptu corporal justice. To me, three thoughts rise from this idea: 1st, and slightly cliche’: "Where would it all end?" With only a personal… Read More
Friday, December 21st, 2007 Tags: Brian Blessed, Caledonian Road, Corporal, London, Microsoft Windows, Salvation Army, Tim Ferris, Tudor pub, Windows Live Writer
Category: Narrative No Comments
It’s America’s Question Time
This morning, after switching on the kettle, I set my laptop on the kitchen surface and shuffled through the BBC iPlayer’s “Factual” category—looking for something interesting to keep me company as I made my porridge and coffee. I stumbled across Question Time, and noticed that this special edition was being broadcast from the United States—something… Read More
Saturday, November 1st, 2008 Tags: America, BBC, commentator, communication, context, David Dimbleby, historian, Iraq, John McCain, politician, professor, Simon Schama, speaker, United States, White House
Category: Narrative, Topical 9 Comments