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Cancer 50

A few years ago a very good book on traumatic stress was written by Bessel van der Kolk, who works in Boston (Massachusetts, not Lincolnshire). It is called The Body Keeps the Score, and is well worth a read. The fundamental point of the book is that when negative things happen to you these are […]

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Cancer 48

Neville Shute’s On the Beach is a great book, if somewhat flawed about the impact of radiation after a nuclear war. If there is anyone out there who hasn’t read it (and that should be rectified immediately) then it is based around a set of characters living in and around Melbourne – the Australian one, […]

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Cancer 47

We are on holiday in a lovely place, the island of Seil in western Scotland. It is an area where even I, a sea hater (it smells, it is wobbly, it is flat, it makes me seasick, it drowns people, it is full of fish piss, it is noisy), like the sea here, as it […]

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Cancer 46

Someone suggested my last blog was too long, so in a spirit of appeasement I have decided to do a shorter one.

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Cancer 45

Instead of talking about cancer all the time I am going to focus this blog on my current holiday; basically, what I did on my holidays. I am 8 years old again, writing for my primary school teacher. It is going to be very current. I am currently sitting at a table looking out over […]

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