Monthly Archives: May 2014

I have written previously about Spin – the art of selling questionable or downright bad things through “clever words”; an art incidentally that has spread across the globe like a pandemic. If you are good at it, you are worth … Continue reading →

Well, I said this was a strange week; it’s getting stranger as I write. Putin in China ahead of his (own) economic summit meeting this week in St Petersburg has (apparently) signed a gas export deal for $400 billion. In … Continue reading →

Strange week this one; the Pfizer bid for AstraZeneca ($116 billion) was rejected, a Ukrainian oligarch worth $11 billion fights for unity in his country, a Russian fertiliser king worth $8.8 billion has to pay his ex-wife $4.5 billion, Credit … Continue reading →

Somewhat assisted by what I wrote yesterday, I glided back 40 years to when I (a Chemist) got involved with some Biologists in New York. At the Columbia Medical School, research was beginning into leukaemia and specifically the effect of … Continue reading →

Thursday I am back in the UK, this time with Henk Visser and his crew to make a video interview with Christopher Dobson who has won the 2014 Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics. Apparently, we travel to Calais, take … Continue reading →

For the moment, this is the last piece on Swaffham and my passage back in time. The world is changing fast and so must we. I took one picture in Swaffham which more or less summarises the metamorphosis and yet … Continue reading →

No, I have not become a grumpy old man! Let’s pull something positive out of my return to Swaffham and my old school, Hamonds Grammar School. It shut down in 1977 and was empty until a lady bought the premises … Continue reading →

On my KLM Flying Blue/American Express account I had accumulated more than 44,000 miles; if I did not use them before the end of May 2014, they would disappear. So I decided to blow 20,000 miles on my return ticket … Continue reading →

The reunion of the Old Hamondians Association had brought me back to Swaffham. On Saturday night, I met three very good school friends and we headed off to Necton for dinner in the Windmill Inn; even more nostalgic since Necton … Continue reading →

Tomorrow I leave for the UK and the school reunion on Sunday in Swaffham. Be prepared for a lot of pictures and stories when I return. While preparing myself for this 50 year ago stuff, I began thinking about the … Continue reading →