SPARROWS

From our kitchen window we have watched a flock of sparrows daily descending on the shrubs growing against our fence. A summer flowering Jasmine, a winter flowering one, and a thorny Pyracantha with its red berries in time for winter, providing food and cover which...

INSTANT WORLD

I feel we are all living at a pace that is ruining our health, even shortening our lives. Life in my young days was standing to use the village public telephone, at the bus stop awaiting transport to work, or to go shopping, or to seek entertainment, is now replaced...

NHS IN WALES

At a recent GP appointment, I was seen by a lady doctor who was very thorough, particularly when she saw my blood pressure readings. My concern that prompted this appointment was related to my throat; I had mentioned others! She wired me up and the ECG print out...

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD?

That song, made popular by Louis Armstrong, paints a world of green trees, red roses, skies of blue, and friends shaking hands, but there is another world I am witnessing.  Late one afternoon, I drove into the edge of town and parked up my car on a short-stay...