Heritage things:

This year's English Heritage blue plaques to include the 1888 Matchgirls' Strike, the Ayahs' Home in Hackney, and a pioneer of humane psychiatric care, Dr John Conolly and the Hanwell Asylum.

Campaigners are celebrating a victory in the battle for public access to the countryside, after the government agreed to cancel a deadline to ( Read more... )

At people going about a pandemic disease that they find personally inconvenient 'got to live with it'.

As if 'living with it' is just about shrugging your shoulders and letting the dice fall as they may.

Am surprised at no reports of rumbling in the cemeteries where Victorian sanitarians are buried.

Because when you are dealing with a disease like ( Read more... )

The week before last I was rather on a roll, I thought, in terms of getting somewhat forrader on various projects in the pipeline -

And then last week I was drooping around feeling a rather sad miz weary hedjog, due to sleeping badly, which was mostly due to the achey bits deciding to be particularly achey or flaring up after having long been ( Read more... )

There's a story about the origins of the song in the 1964 Mary Poppins movie, 'A Spoonful of Sugar' by the son of one of the Sherman brothers, that they were trying to come up with the song, and he came in from having his polio vaccine on a lump of sugar, and, BINGO! there was their song.

Okay, they changed it to spoonful....

The concept of ' ( Read more... )

Looking back (I'm not doing one of those lists that assume that life is more or less NORMAL, not that they ever particularly match the lifestyle of a Crabby Ol' Bat Hedjog.
Best thing I got during the year: 2 A-Z + 1 Pfizer vaxxes.
Best things I bought during the year: new computer, it really does show up how massively, massively sluggish the old ( Read more... )

Ministers pledge to ‘reset the dial’ on women’s health in England: After 100,000 women voiced concerns, plans include menopause support, GP training and banning ‘virginity repair’ operations. On Wednesday night, ministers pledged to introduce legislation criminalising hymenoplasty or any procedure to rebuild or repair the hymen. Such surgery ( Read more... )

And given the present circumstance, I'm going with a very long and still unconcluded war, in fact, one that is only in certain of its phases a matter of remembrance rather than a present matter.
The War Against Disease.
Thomas Nashe, In Time of Pestilence: ADIEU, farewell earth's bliss!
This world uncertain is:
Fond are life's lustful joys,
Death ( Read more... )

(Inserts proviso that is by no means a Nexpert in Making of Babbiez, but has been obliged in the way of one's profession to know somewhat of the subject.)
PSC is actually being asked a question about baby-making - well, actually, it's about the deleterious effects of intending baby-making on ye conjugal embracez: we’re trying to have a baby and ( Read more... )

Still feeling somewhat wishy-washy - not sure if this is reaction to the shots (booster site still a bit sore, for the record) - or whether it is merely the product of unwonted physical exercise, i.e. walk to health centre, standing for a considerable while in a queue, walk back (mostly uphill), not to mention the psychological effects of seeing so ( Read more... )

Quite bombarded with texts and emails from NHS and my GP apropos of this year's round of flu jab and Covid booster - I'd originally booked my flu shot for this morning and then got a text from my GP offering the booster and possibility of concurrent flu shot this pm, so canceled the first appointment and boogeyed on down to the health centre this ( Read more... )