Life, medicine and stuff

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.  [Victor Frankl]

Probably my favourite design. I was disappointed with the Sutherland Hussey entry, the only local one, I love their Tiree and Chengdu designs.

Pathfinder government policy encourages knocking down of old properties in run down areas so land can be given to private developers. If new houses are unaffordable, they are then rented to people on low incomes, but paid for by housing benefit – in 1 famous case in London, a homeless family were installed in a…

True blood series 1 and 2 Linn park walks followed by Derby Cafe hot chocolate and apple pie Reign over me (Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle) A Single Man (Colin Firth, Tom Ford) Minnie Driver at playgroup! Summerlee industrial museum Edinburgh holiday, Deep Sea World, Zoo Kung Fu, the 70s series, on DVD – the fighting…

So far I haven’t been convinced that Wikileaks is an improvement on regular journalism or public protest. Publishing what people talk about in private, perhaps when they have not had a chance to reflect or discuss more widely is not automatically a good thing. A Norwegian paper reports cables from the US embassy in Israel…

[On seeing a kid who screamed and kicked while getting bloods done emerging with a “I’ve been brave” sticker] I said to his dad, “Your kid hasn’t been brave, actually. I have a I’ve been a snivelling coward sticker for your kid if you want it.” The sticker has been devalued.  In hospital everyone can…

When people believe they have absolute knowledge with no test in reality, this is how they behave. This is what men do when they aspire to the knowledge of gods. Science is a very human form of knowledge. We are always at the brink of the known, we always feel forward for what is to…

Have really enjoyed Frightened Rabbit this year (The Winter of Mixed Drinks), whole album excellent. Swimmer One had another album, quite uneven, some of the same electrodisco which I love when they do it, and not when anyone else does it. But also the fabulous “Fakester Resurrection”, over 12 minutes long of Nymanesque strings and…

Due 2015

When there is so much suffering in this world, and our lives hang on so many fragile threads, it is one of the tragedies of human existence that we waste so much time puting ourselves and each other down – judging, blaming, hating. Energy that is wasted, in destruction of things, pasts, futures. Energy that…