by GHIC | Nov 1, 2010 | 2010 Blogs
Cut off from London! November ended with a flourish. Snow and icy winds blowing down from the north. This morning (December 1st) the snow here in Kent is over a foot deep. Roads blocked. No trains to London. Joined a shivering band of doughty commuters on our...
by GHIC | Oct 1, 2010 | 2010 Blogs
Like London buses, medical conferences come in threes. Autumn is a particularly busy time for meetings and this year is no exception. In early October I gave a lecture on the antiphospholipid syndrome to the Arabic Rheumatology meeting in Dubai. As it seems, all over...
by GHIC | Sep 1, 2010 | 2010 Blogs
A few days late. My apologies. So different from last year’s glorious autumn. September was wet and dull. The kitchen floor is covered with Lucy’s muddy paw marks. In London, daily life made more difficult by frequent tube strikes. A number of my patients...
by GHIC | Aug 1, 2010 | 2010 Blogs
The rains came. Not in the biblical sense, but suddenly, in mid August, the sun disappeared and rain, wind and dreariness descended. A recent quote from the groundsman at Lord’s cricket ground: “we haven’t seen the sun for seventeen days!” We were lucky during our...
by GHIC | Jul 1, 2010 | 2010 Blogs
Yes, the good weather lasted and our Ten Topics meeting went well. And the air conditioning worked! Our annual St Thomas’ 2-day medical meeting was possibly the best ever. Two hundred attendees from 11 countries (including America and Japan). New data on Hughes...
by GHIC | Jun 1, 2010 | 2010 Blogs
June this year has flashbacks to 2009. Despite the long grey winter and spring, this month has improved by the week. As I write this, in the last days of the month, we are in the throws of a sun-drenched Wimbledon and (can it be true?) the beginning of a drought!...
