moon_beast

I was waiting to go into hospital last time I posted here. I had the operation to remove the right-hand side of my colon last Friday afternoon and this was me in the hospital coffee bar just two days later. The cancerous tumour was contained entirely in the colon itself, so hopefully that means I'm going to be fine now it's been taken away. I...
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I'm feeling very lucky at the moment.

I haven't felt very well all year and finally went to see a doctor about it a couple of weeks ago. I thought that maybe I was just getting really unfit despite all the dancing and other exercise I do, but blood tests proved that I was very anaemic which was the real reason I felt tired and...
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Yours truly having fun in Paris.

None of the youngsters I saw trying it could make it go round properly... I got on and it just wouldn't stop. Something to do with mass and inertia I think! :-)

I watched this film recently and found it quite fascinating. It tells the story of how psychologist William Marston came to create Wonder Woman, under the pen-name Charles Moulton, in the early 1940's. It's a romanticised biopic, but is at least broadly true to the events as outlined in Jill Lepore's excellent book, 'The Secret History of Wonder Woman'... It features feminism, free-love, role-play, bondage,...
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Whatever it is you happen to believe that you're celebrating at this time of year... Just try not to traumatise any children!

'Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.' H.P. Lovecraft, The Picture in The House.

I love to poke around in obscure places... This is a photograph I took in the ossuary beneath Montparnasse cemetery while on holiday in Paris a few years ago. It was much less busy than most of the usual tourist destinations in the city. It gets harder to access the old...
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Ideal for our British summer!

Some people get to be The Mother of Dragons, but me... I got my head stuck up one's arse! ;-)