Anyone who lives in Perth, Dundee (or intervening points), who owns a bike should have a go at this! The "Tour de Tay", is a well...

WARNING - this review contains major plot spoilers! Amour is a film which leaves an indelible impression upon the viewer. It is a film...

I first came across this book when I heard the author reading an edited version of it on Radio4. . I was doing something as mundane as d...

I still can't quite believe I've agree to join in with this. If you would like to sponsor us to go bald alongside our mate Stan -...

A Good Death from PRN Films on Vimeo . A Good Death is a film about end-of-life care by my friend Robin Taylor

Ben Goldacre, who's newspaper column and book "Bad Science" has done so much to expose myth posing as science; has now tu...

Perth Concert Hall's Norrie Miller Suite was packed-out for a fine evening of guitar-driven blues last night. Alongside their genuinely ...

My memory has never been that great. Although some odd facts seem to stick in mind with a weird permanence, I have never been one of those p...

Being married to a Dr. means that I am frequently subjected to that profession's notoriously dark biological sense of humour which inap...

Phil Hammond's book, "Medicine Balls" is something of a schizophrenic effort in that it is unsure whether it is a serious med...

There lies my severed wedding-ring, its symbolic 'unbroken-circle' of never ending love, in tatters. The Dr in the "Accident an...

The excitement of the day has been caused by yet another of my infamous unplanned slapstick routines. Stumbling about in the kitchen trying ...

One of the perils of being married to a doctor is the weird and wonderful things that I find on my computer screen, and/or on the printer. T...

Although much of my studying was done by distance-learning etc, I did attend some classes while doing my degree. One of those courses was an...

"Pus-finger... he's the man with the septic touch!" Poor Norris, his thumb has ballooned with an infection which is painful, ...

I am not asking for your sympathy, merely offering you the chance to quietly laugh at me as you see me moving cautiously, doing the John-Way...

This week I have been grumpy and uncommunicative (and not blogging either). This has been due to a resurgence of my long-standing sinus pr...

In the unlikely event that this blog were to acquire corporate sponsorship, I'd have to give long and serious consideration to the kind...

I am now officially "overweight" as confirmed by the medical profession, with a bmi (blubbery midrift index) several notches highe...

Young Norris (aged 4) has enjoyed visits to two hospitals today, one planned, one unplanned! First of this morning we took him to Ninewells ...