An excerpt from: One of the reasons the population is proud to be British is possession of the NHS. The way in which it was set up to provide health care without any restrictions on the ability to pay remains a concept that is worth protecting. It is why I…
By Shaun Jardine Clients like choice and don’t always choose the cheapest option I worked with an employment lawyer for a large Midlands firm that had a commercial client who wanted some employment contracts. The options which the employment lawyer gave the client were: I can send you some template…
* You may be reading this not for yourself, but because you have concerns about a member of the family, a friend, or another loved one. It may well be alcohol is not just one of the problems in any given life, it could well be that the problem in…
* A physiotherapy colleague of mine was doing some cross-country running in a local forest. He was running alone but had his new dog with him. He tripped on a branch and fell badly. Immediately, he felt pain in his ankle and knew he had injured himself, but fortunately, the…
July 13th 2020 I had an appointment at the LRI today to get feedback on the biopsy of the removed mole. I was taken to the LRI by Catherine, and I remember wondering what might come my way and what the consequences could be. I had no real idea what…
Marcus Sedgwick was an award-winning British writer who passed away in November 2022 in France. Writing in YA, Science Fiction, and Non-Fiction genres (amongst others), he burst onto the scene with Floodland (which won the 2001 Branford Boase Award) and also achieved acclaim with The Foreshadowing, She Is Not Invisible,…
From Chapter 5 of... Managing stress, fear, and anxiety Stress, fear, and anxiety are terms that are often used interchangeably, and which can have similar impacts on your body, but there are differences that are worth understanding. Figuring out which ones you are experiencing will help you deal with them…
An excerpt Ian Carroll's Liverpool book: * * * * * Thirty years of hurt, frustration, and bewilderment, and three decades of failure in the top flight of English football, all came to an end on the 25th of June 2020. Liverpool, at last, were title-winning champions again. The club…
An excerpt from: What is this Pain ‘Volume Dial’? Years ago, my brother had a massive red ghetto blaster radio. The radio was quite a simple device; it just had an on/off switch and a volume dial. At times, my brother turned the radio up so loud the radio shook.…
Four Rondo practices from Ray Power's Book: * PRACTICE 1: The Original 4 v 2 PURPOSE OF SESSION: Although it is very difficult to attribute the invention of the rondo to any one coach, it is Laureano Ruiz, former Barcelona coach, whose name appears most often next to it. In…