The Spoon Drawer

New research published in Friday’s i paper showed the current swathes of progress in the fight against cancer. The article reported on a study that took place at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, which concentrated on cancer patients that had previously undergone chemotherapy to treat cancer but had subsequently relapsed. The cancer patients in question each suffered from a form of cancer that affects white blood cells, B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Although each patient responded positively to chemotherapy, the cancer soon returned with gusto, boasting a resistance to any further treatments of chemotherapy.  However, new treatments developed by the Kettering Cancer Centre allowed patients to be injected with a modification of their own cancer fighting gene to fight the disease. The treatment, known as targeted immunotherapy, involves inserting an additional gene into the patient’s white blood cells that allow them to identify the cancerous c...

10:34 Waking up in all your clothes on the floor thirty centimeters away from your bed is never a good thing. After gathering myself slowly to my feet I began to piece together what happened the night before. It must have been someone’s birthday, a 21st or a 30th anything else would not have resulted in as much pain as this.  11:00 I’m at the point now where I can actually feel my brain sitting in my skull. It’s like a ball of steel wool pressing against the back of my eyes. The room has stopped spinning but has now taken on another slightly more disturbing trait of being on a slight tilt. I am so hungover. It is a little known rule of the English language hyperbole is only acceptable when you’re hungover. It's in the back of the dictionary somewhere, I swear. I’d get up and show you but it’s all the way over there on the shelf, and the thought of getting up has brought on another bout of whisky-tears.  11:45 A quick trip to the bathroom to relieve myself ...

It’s the day that every Dad across  the country which they can (finally) put their feet up, and get waited on hand and foot, eat breakfast in bed and leave trimming the hedges, fixing the guttering and paining the skirting boards to another day. It’s Father’s Day! The most stressful part of your day should be deciding which sports channel you should watch and when you want your next cup of tea brought to you. You need to make the most of days like this, because the day after you’ll go back to being handyman, taxi driver, chef, janitor, football coach, ballet expert, and IT support. So let’s make the most of this day, it’s all about you remember. Here’s a guide to Dad’s across the country to what you could be doing on Father’s Day, it could give you some ideas for potential Father’s Day gifts (wink wink, nudge nudge), whatever you end up doing on Father’s Day, whether you spend it sprawled out on the couch with a hangover, on your own at the lake fishing in the peace and qu...