Life Experience
British Heart Foundation – Why I support it How important is the British Heart foundation? My personal interest in its work I feel profoundly lucky that research and consequent developments
A care worker in the BBC programme Crisis is not too strong a word to apply to care of the elderly in care homes and those living in their own
Last August (3rd) I wrote a post saying that the dangers of covid had been exaggerated by the media. I especially pointed out that crowded beaches did not lead to
Anyone who meets me would probably think that I am a very healthy individual. I have felt very well this year and have been very active doing exercise routines most
I should have known better, but I love the sun. I worship the sun. Most summers in the last twenty years I have driven or flown hundreds of miles to
I wore a face mask yesterday when I went to a shop for the first time in five months. It was a horrible experience (but not because it was B
What it’s like having an angiogram – actually a very interesting experience I was moved into a cardiac ward and put onto a bed. I had hardly got onto the
I believed I was reasonably fit (February 2019, age 76). After all, for about 10 years I’d been doing a lot of jogging and other exercise. Typically I ran 6
I’m now 76 (August 2019). For the last ten years or so I’ve run a little under two miles every other day, and on my off days I’ve enjoyed exercising
If you are in tip-top physical condition and exercising a lot you may be in greater danger than you realise. I thought I was super-fit but one day, at the
Social Distancing has already trashed our economy and ruined many lives. Thousands of businesses have closed permanently. Tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs. And many people have
Last night I watched the BBC TV 6 0’clock news with an item about a primary school in the north of England. The presenter, Branwen Jeffreys, showed us a school
Norway’s Prime Minister has second thoughts about closing Norway’s Schools. On Wednesday night, Norway’s prime minister Erna Solberg went on Norwegian television to make a startling admission: she had panicked.
Corona Virus, “The impact on children is minuscule in terms of their health.” – Dr Gavin Morgan. Dr Gavin Morgan, an expert in educational psychology at University College London, said
“Children are at very little risk of infection” – Professor Russell Viner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health Professor Russell Viner of the UCL Institute of
Born in 1942, I now have time to enjoy life more widely and reflect on my experience, interests, and contemporary events.
My books (books I have edited) are primarily books of war poetry (mainly the First World War) and remembrance poems.
I also run a very popular war poetry website www.warpoetry.uk
