Monthly Archives: August 2004

X-Ray

The Barium Enema and X-Ray went fine, though uncomfortable — particularly when they injected the air to blow up my colon like a balloon (no need to twist it into animal shapes, however!) and then ask me to writhe around … Continue reading

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Feed me!

I’m now 22 hours into my fast, in preparation for the barium x-ray this afternoon. I celebrated the Eucharist at St Salvador’s this morning, which was an interesting experience. Truly one of service as I was unable to eat bread … Continue reading

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Cellardyke — the wait continues

We’ve still heard nothing about when we might get the keys to the house we are buying in Fife. We were meant to close the deal on Friday 20 August, but there has been a delay with the sellers needing … Continue reading

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Hospital preparations

Tomorrow afternoon I have an appointment at the X-ray Department of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE) for a ‘barium enema’ — yeah, that sounds just as exciting to me! Since yesterday (Sunday) I’ve been on a ‘low residue diet’, … Continue reading

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Firefox

If you haven’t done so already: install the Mozilla Firefox browser! Continue reading

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Some Kind of Monster, part 2

Last night I saw the Metallica film Some Kind of Monster with my friend Tirwin. It was an inspiring, and at times quite moving, exploration into the relationships of these so-called ‘rock stars’. In a culture which puts stardom and … Continue reading

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Blog assimilated

Well that took longer than I’d expected — mostly because I accidentally renamed a critical file before uploading it and couldn’t work out why nothing was changing on the site! — but I’ve now given the front-end of this blog … Continue reading

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