Taken in the water 1 Recent goings-on. Hello! I've recently been enjoying the therapeutic joys of wild swimming in the sea. I purchased a waterproof phone cover and took a few pictures in the water, including the one above. In the "Haunts of the Black Masseur" Charles Sprawson's famous study of swimming, he describes how, …
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The Nurse Who Would Not Meet My Eye
The nurse would not meet my eye. Somehow that seemed fraught with meaning. “I am so dead,” I thought. I stood outside the door of my oncology consultant. The waiting area behind me had a central garden with a fountain in it. Dozens of men and women sat patiently marking time before attending the periodic life-or-death consultations …