Category Archives: Arts

Medicalisation of Normality – from the BBC

Life: A medical condition, by Alasdair Cross
Restless leg syndrome, social anxiety disorder, female sexual dysfunction, celebrity worship syndrome – it seems that a new illness is invented every week, covering every potential quirk in human behaviour. Is the human condition becoming a medical condition?
Ten per cent of British children are regarded as having a clinically [...]

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eBook readers…

So, I am jealous of Twenty Four at Heart’s Kindle. This, dear friends, allows one to read books on the go, and store a digital library of books all in an electronic device lighter thanĀ  the average paperback, apparently. However, I want to be able to read all my PDFs, I want to view and [...]

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Men clink ale

Is an anagram of Ian McKellen. And was the first question in the pub quiz last night. Whereby a team of me, MrC and a spanish friend came 2nd. Second I tell you! And our spanish friend answered two, I answered about 5, and MrC the rest. Of course, we told him we knew them [...]

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An Award! Look at me I got an Award! Yeehahahahaha!

Nora at Walking through the Rain has bestowed on me the great gift that is a blogging award!
I am very grateful because really I just blog the ramblings and crazy from my head, don’t check my spelling and grammar too much, and just, kinda, let it all out.
Anyways, the rules of the Award dictate I [...]

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Art

This last week MrC has unleashed his inner artist and has been making stencils then trying out different ways of using them to make different images.

They look good round the house but you can’t have a picture of Ian Brown in every room (or can you?) so we have to decide which ones to [...]

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