December 2022 – Dr Rod’s Odd Blog (almondemotion)

I write with no agenda, let’s see what happens. Epstein, Maxwell & Gasprom effects on Yoda the tortoise.

I worry I shouldn’t have fed him (hibernation begins on an empty stomach) and yet, he appeared hungry.

Dickens speaks to Marx who is in discussion with Harry Leslie Smith. They reach a compromise.

Yes, the NHS and the Tory.

Sure, the Tory has never liked the NHS, it is too leftie, too socialist, democratic, and yet, it is central to UK political debate; it is locked-in to our psyche.

I’ve got it. A grand unified theory! (thank you Dr Feynman).

The passage of minor electrical currents through microscopic pathways of the heart; organs that perfuse, that push and pull oxygen to brains that exist beyond the complexities of the universe

Why did granny die? They killed Gran. After Priestley. (A redo, 26/11/22)

The last time Elsie was in hospital was 50 years before when her son was born.

A final fling of the football, at the back of the net, into the hands of the goalie & a soupcon of Nietzsche.

It is telling someone you love them

As you lash-out with a punch.

Squeeze the capsule and empty the contents on to their sugar puffs. The 21st century balm.

If you open the capsule and sprinkle, everything will be ok.

Thermostatic analysis

It is seven degrees inside my house. This morning the car registered minus four. In the lake we were advised by the keeper of temperatures the water was four or thereabouts. Afterwards, the neoprene of my bootees having temporarily stuck to the frozen ground, pain shot through my fingers as blood and sensation returned. WhenContinue reading “Thermostatic analysis”

Memories of Mrs. Slocombe & Blind spots in health and care.

This, for mum was a terrible disability as language, conversation and socialising was one of her superpowers. Mum could talk with anyone at any time about anything.