View from the Potting Shed

Last Wednesday my renal consultant (I have Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease) put me on ACE inhibitors, which are a drug that have the side-effect of reducing one’s blood pressure.
Today Jane picked them up from the chemist. But I’ve just read the instructions:
ONE tablet to be taken in the MORNING
Take 30-60 minutes before food.
What?!
They’ve […]

Kidney beans don’t get high blood pressure.
Bill e Bob left a comment on my last post “PC absolution” saying “Enough of this techno-geekery, where is your devastating review of the rugby? I think in the words of our more aggressive football-supporting brethren, ‘It’s all gone quiet over there’”.
It’s all gone quiet for one special reason: […]

The last couple of days have had a strong hospital theme to them. One was a planned visit, the other wasn’t.
Monday
On Monday Jane and I went over to Dundee for a meeting and more tests to try to progress us towards starting IVF. Unfortunately it’s not going to be quite as straightforward as we’d hoped. […]

This morning I’m going back to work after three days off sick.
It started with my feeling really tired on Monday afternoon — I went straight to bed when I finished work. By Tuesday morning it was clear that during the night someone had coated my throat with shards of broken glass. I slept for much […]

I didn’t get much sleep last night, despite going to bed early (before 22:00). You see, our cats, Spot and Smudge, appear to have founded an Ian Banks-inspired Mouse Factory.
During the night they brought in four mice. Well, okay, if you want to get technical about it: three and a half. In they’d bound, […]

View of University Library from my office window
So there I was sitting at my desk staring through my office window towards the University Library, taking a break from redesigning SAULCAT (the University Library catalogue search pages), and wondering: how can I find out more about the whole IVF process?
And then like a moment of epiphany […]

Vladimir Karpets - he’s not a cheat and he has a cool name
So … shortly after Le Tour de France passed the final stage over the Pyrenees it now finds itself with an even steeper climb: rebuilding people’s confidence (should that be Cofidis?) in cycling and the complete expulsion of drugs and doping from the […]