Monthly Archives: March 2010

>Charity runs amok

Posted on March 30, 2010 by Victor

> I had lunch today at a city Italian restaurant with four longstanding friends. In years gone past we were work colleagues and also a tennis and squash playing group. The lunch had been arranged prior to my mother’s unexpected … Continue reading →

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>Gratitude

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Victor

> Thanks for all the messages following the death of my mother. I was quite touched also by the number of calls from friends and associates, some of whom I had lost contact with for many years. The funeral was today … Continue reading →

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>My Mum

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Victor

> Yesterday at 5.40am the Nursing Home rang me to advise my mother’s condition was of concern. She was struggling with her breathing and her blood pressure had fallen. When I arrived at the home shortly after I found my … Continue reading →

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>Sick, man!

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Victor

> Don’t worry. This blog is not turning into the diary of a sick man. But I will make occasional references to my condition. The good news is that yesterday’s follow-up at the Foundation was positive news. Yes, the excised … Continue reading →

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>And so it goes…

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Victor

> Unfortunately the pathology is back on my test and the biopsy opinion is Clark Level III Melanoma. This was not what I wanted to hear. Looks like a further excision is required. I’ll know more tomorrow.

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>Stockholm

Posted on March 22, 2010 by Victor

> (Leeanna Walsman and Socratis Otto) I wasn’t thinking of the irony yesterday when I went to see The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo that I was scheduled the next day to see the Sydney Theatre Company’s current offering, ‘Stockholm‘. … Continue reading →

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>The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor)

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Victor

> The Swedish film of Stieg Larsson’s best selling novel ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ omits most of the subplots in the book focussing almost exclusively on the search to solve the forty years’ old mystery of the disappearance of Harriet Vanger and … Continue reading →

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>Someone stitched me up

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Victor

> The world’s first glimpse of my unflattering hairy chest and the stitches marking the removal of a mole which, subject to the pathology results, will prove hopefully to have been Basal Cell Carcinoma rather than Melanoma.

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>The Hurt Locker

Posted on March 18, 2010 by Victor

> Two cinematic visits to Iraq in one week is probably two too many but each has been rewarding in it’s own way. This year’s Academy Award winning Best Picture, ‘The Hurt Locker’, follows bomb technicians as they go about … Continue reading →

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>A Single Man

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Victor

> A day in 1962. Colin Firth, Professor of English at a college in Los Angeles is grieving the loss of his gay lover some time earlier. A meticulous man, we see his preparations for the day and his encounters … Continue reading →

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