Birthday surprise

It was my birthday last week.  I hit the grand old age of 42.  Unbeknown to me, my son had given me an extra birthday prezzie.  He gave me Chickenpox.  I thought I had flue and I felt lousy on Thursday, but after a couple of hours of extra sleep and a couple of aspirin, I did not feel too bad.  … [Read more...]

Ideas.

I'm sure someone could establish a rule for this.  What is this?  Well, it's our capacity to dream things up which, eventually, become reality.  Old Leonardo did it with the helicopter and other things.  H G Wells and other Sci-Fi writers have done it too.  What starts out as pure imagination … [Read more...]

Blue Ray – new tech, but old problems?

It looks as though DVD's are about to be superseded by these Blue ray high definition data discs.  However, I'm not convinced that they are the bees knees.Recently we've had a few DVDs from our local rental shop which have been, very annoyingly, stopping half way through our chosen films.  We do … [Read more...]

The big meeting – My son

Well, we had the 'big meeting', only it was not that big and it lasted around half an hour including an endoscopic examination of my son's nose, which revealed that all was OK.Two specialists and one head of department and a couple of stray doctors were there to observe.  The scans were examined … [Read more...]

Big meeting on Monday

I've already mentioned this in the past, but the saga of my nearly four year old son's swollen eye problem continues to drag on.  The actual illness seems to be ethmoid sinusitis.My son recently underwent a CT scan (TAC scan over here) and this scan revealed that there is still an area of … [Read more...]