It’s Monday and it’s my solemn mission to give my readers a headache. I’ve been musing about the content of this particular blog over the last few weeks. Being a pharmacist, I’m used to reading any number of spurious claims made by scientists in a bid to big up their research and attract funding– Cancer […]
Oh my giddy aunt, Ye gods and little fishes etc etc. What a perfectly ghastly week. I can’t believe I survived it. Yesterday for example, I had two meetings, one took 40 minutes, the other 20 minutes. Total travel time, 8½ hours. No, that was not a typo. Maximum distance of each journey from my […]
BREXIT- the gift that just keeps on giving. First of all, the bankers, Treasury, and financial ‘experts’ took an Olympic-sized bath by betting on a catastrophic crash, wrongly as usual. You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh. Then we had the people asking for a 2nd, 3rd, 87th referendum- in fact, a Neverendum: […]
Well, we’re 2 for 2 at AlaraApothecary. We called the last election right despite the interesting opinion polls, and we called the result for Brexit right as well. AlaraApothecary– we’ve got a rose-scented finger on the national pulse. Obviously only a fool would alienate roughly half his/her potential clients by contributing to the craziness that […]
I am currently living in the ‘inbetween’ times; waiting for one thing to finish and another to begin. I’m not even remotely any good at patience– shades of a bird carooming around a cage, let me out, let me out. “In returning and rest shall you be saved, in quietness and in confidence shall […]
