My prediction wasn’t far off.
Route: Pen y Pass car park – Crib Goch – Crib y Ddysgl – Carnedd Ugain – Snowdon – Pig Track – Pen y Pass Car Park.
The weather was cold, but forecasts for clear weather in the morning, degenerating to cloud cover and possible flurries were correct. The ridge was covered [...]
Crib Goch 3560 ft
If all has gone to plan, as you read this post I should be halfway along the ridge above – although the current weather forecast means I may be in cloud. It may be cold and icy too. Good.
Walkers picking their way along the ridge of Crib Goch.
Frans van Anraat has been jailed for fifteen years for his part in the genocidal attacks on the Kurds by Saddam Hussein.
Some potentially good news concerning the Bulgarian nurses, and Palestinian doctor, who currently face death by firing squad in Libya:
Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov expects a breakthrough in talks to release five nurses sentenced to death for infecting Libyan children with the HIV virus, daily 24 Chasa reported on Friday.
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“I have reason to expect developments in [...]
If you read this blog regularly, or are just passing by, and have found at least one thing here of vague interest, then it’s a possibility you might consider buying me a pint if we met by chance.
Even with small world theory that is unlikely to happen, so instead why not donate those few pounds [...]
When I’m cycling I stop at red lights. That includes red lights at the bottom of hills, where flying through would save having to start a long grind from standstill. The reason I do this is because I also drive a car and recognise how annoying it is. I also live in one of the [...]
The BMJ carries an obituary of Professor Bill Inman:
Following the launch of the first generation of contraceptive pills in the 1960s, Inman recognised that they caused fatal thromboses. He designed studies that showed that the risk could be minimised by lowering the dose of oestrogen, without the loss of contraceptive effect. He also showed that [...]
In January of this year, my professional journal carried a leader about Iraq which stated:
The tragedy is that people are powerless to do anything much to help and there does not seem to be any glimmer of hope.
This made me wonder if anything constructive could be done to help Pharmacy in Iraq, and several months [...]
If you are a drinker, then you may be helping people affected by thalidomide.
Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker, Guinness, Baileys, J&B, Captain Morgan are all made by Diageo, formerly Guinness. In 1986 Guinness bought Distiller’s, whose pharmaceutical subsidiary were unfortunately the company that produced under licence thalidomide. Diageo have just agreed a full and final [...]