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It's probably a bladder infection

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 My dad went for some blood tests recently and they came back normal.  Then he had to repeat them and some came back not normal and those were for his prostate.  He'd had an episode where he had needed a pee in the house and not made it.  The doctor has pointed out it could just be a bladder infection that the blood tests wouldn't pick up on.  In fact, this appears to be fairly common.  He told me on Friday.  He started off with a quip about wanting his parents picture visible to him in death.  Then went on to say he'd been thinking about it since the doctor had mentioned it. The doctor pointing out that it might just be a bladder infection doesn't phase me, neither does him preparing my dad for something worse.  My dad isn't an idiot and he knows what men his age can end up suffering from.   I'm okay, I'm robust.  I always have been and have to be since my sister took a back seat running down south in the pandemic and not comi...

The Lynx Effect

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The world is in turmoil at the moment and no one could imagine anything worse happening that would beat war, but it did. Lynx announced the discontinuation of Lynx Africa, the scent that defined the mid-to-late-nineteen-nineties in the UK. Rylan speaks for a generation Cue the meltdown of a generation.   'It must be an April Fool!' Many cried in the hope that the marketing committee had been overcome by the scent that they just couldn't wait and had gone early. Alas, no.  Not an early April Fool.   Just a marketing campaign.  It's not gone, it's just getting a makeover.

A Kick in the Head

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It is only Wednesday of this week and already I have see too many videos of children having fights.  I say "fights" but that would indicate that there was a degree of fairness amongst those who are seen in the videos as "fighting".  Usually it's one person being physically assaulted by one or more other individual.  That person, twice this week, has been female.  One lone female being battered silly while others look on and watch and film. Sadder than that is that in one of those videos this week it is understood that the female being beaten up was actually a child who was eight-years-old and, if the information with the video is correct, the girls giving the beaten was older, in high school at least.  What sort of beef does an eleven-year-old girl have with an eight-year-old girl? Thankfully, in the that video, there was someone, a young lad, trying to step in.  The video is not long and the child is okay physically but extremely shaken up as you can imagi...