At long last results arrived Dorovitch did not send to specialist Specialist 'phoned! Verbally undetectable Written results were waiting On arrival home quite late, late enough to take taxi! Written undetectable. All other test within normal limits Some things a bit low or a bit high but acceptable! Perfectly acceptable. Sailor They that go down to the sea in ships: And occupy their business in great waters; These men see the works of the Lord: And his wonders in the deep. Psalm 107 ... View more

Sitting by the Thames, behind me the brutalism of Scott's Bankside power station. It is a warm autumn day in London. Twenty four hours earlier I had sat in the humidity beside the Singapore river, drinking beer and watching the bumboats talk tourists past the old warehouses. In London the old warehouses were no more - gentrified, reconstructed,chic - as in docklands in many old cities. Thriving activity; proud technology of another age had all gone - where? Still in London the barges throbbed up and down. To what destinations? The beer in London, still the measures of another age, tasted good, as good as it did in Singapore those twenty four hours ago. Behind me the power station had also been gentrified and become the Tate Modern. The mighty cathedral to past technology was now the stunning gallery of all things modern - well, whatever that might mean. To me the highlight was the Epstein's - mighty pieces of stone turned into fantastic figures, beautiful, sometimes haunting, evoking powers from another age. Yet they in their time had travelled as sideshows to a circus. How could you keep your integrity and that of your work when it was treated with such disdain? I hope that never happened to 'Ecce Homo' standing now outside the Cathedral of Coventry - that squat haunted figure constrasting the height and grace of the archangel Michael in the glass of the epinonymous building. Then the bookstore and the discovery of the 'Atlas of Experience', mapping the human condition. Sitting in the warm sun it was good to be alive. Six months after salvage radiotherapy, in a time when you could dare hope that you might be cured. Life was simpler then. It was another country. Sailor The past is foreign country, they do things differently there. L P Hartley ... View more

Dorovitch forgot! How dare they! Don't they realise The importance? Telephone calls, Explanations, "We'll send them today" - No apology! Tomorrow is specialist day. To know is to be prepared, Not surprised. And their response was, "Get them from your doctor" Your GP. GP means money, More than specialists charge. No reason to see GP - Even if he is good, And looked after children When critical and growing. Don't they realise The importance? Of results - when it Is not going away. Sailor Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide. Charles Dickens ... View more