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The Leprosy Book Club
Posted on 12. Dec, 2011 by Shandy.
Very rarely do you end up speaking to complete strangers on the tube let alone having a spontaneous book club. However, this is exactly what happened to me last week. I was fully engrossed in my book, The Island by Victoria Hislop, when a lady sat down opposite me and exclaimed, “Oh that is such [...]
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So what is it that you do?
Posted on 10. Jun, 2011 by Shandy.
Last weekend I was introduced to one of my good friend’s new boyfriend. The conversation took the usual course and he politely asked, “So what is it that you do?” to which my friend of several years asked, “Yeah, what is it that you do?” Now, I don’t talk about work all the time but [...]
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Can I really say that?
Posted on 08. Mar, 2011 by Shandy.
So here I am, sat in a brainstorm but it’s the middle of the afternoon and I’ve just eaten a rather large sweet jacket potato and chilli lunch – an Aurora favourite – and thus in my food slump, I am struggling to think of a new and creative idea. What I really want to [...]
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I prescribe a cut and blow dry
Posted on 17. Jan, 2011 by Shandy.
A trip to the hairdressers for me is usually a few hours of drinking tea, reading magazines and catching up on the local gossip. During my latest visit, just after I was given my first cuppa, a lady walked into the salon to the delight of one of the hairdressers, “Joan!”, she said, “We heard [...]
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What do ‘i’ want?
Posted on 28. Oct, 2010 by Shandy.
During my lunch break yesterday, instead of looking at my various favourite news (and gossip) websites, Google Reader and Twitter for an update on what was going on in the world, I decided to pick up a copy of the Independent’s new ‘i’ newspaper, launched yesterday and described as, ‘a new kind of paper’, which [...]
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HIV you heard?
Posted on 27. Jul, 2010 by Shandy.
Reading through some of the coverage last week on the International AIDS Conference got me thinking about a poster presentation, which I did on the disease at university. I would be intrigued to read the content again as I suspect the research included would now be very much out of date. The number of articles, [...]
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Hay today… gone tomorrow
Posted on 18. Jun, 2010 by Shandy.
Last night, after work, my friend and I decided to enjoy the last few hours of the sun in the park. I spent the next hour trying to understand my friend’s various updates on her job and love life though a series of sneezes and nose-blowing episodes…she had forgotten to take an antihistamine and was [...]
