Daily Archives: January 16th, 2008
Leslie Ash, MRSA, and her ‘caring’ husband
The British actress Leslie Ash has won a record payout of £5 million after suing the NHS for contracting the super-bug MRSA in one of their hospitals. MRSA is a major, major problem in UK hospitals right now and many people have contracted, and died, from this condition. People who only went into hospital, healthy [...]
Can you live without the TV?
We, in this household, have not watched television since last year. December 31st 2007 to be exact. I am almost counting up the days, hours and minutes now. We lost our TV signal that morning and despite all our efforts; standing on the roof pointing the dish in every direction, armed with compasses, manuals, satellite [...]
Tenzing Norgay
The world was recently saddened to hear the news of Sir Edmund Hillary at the age of 88. It is not really a ‘tragedy’ as such when someone who has led a full and interesting life dies at such an age, I mean it is a feat in itself to live so long, but you [...]
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