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Breathing Free

March 27, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The grim news is that tuberculosis cases are up 25% in the first year of pandemic. This was predicted by people who could see how dangerous the diversion of resources to Covid-19 would be.

It was so obvious that I mentioned the risk of a rise in TB in a May journal last year. ‘The curse of tuberculosis is that it’s thought to be a disease of the poor’ I wrote.

Two years ago today when Brexit was a significant issue in my world.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: bbc, Covid-19, hilaire belloc, medecins sans frontieres, pandemic, photo, tuberculosis, wikipedia, world tb day

International Women’s Day 2021

March 8, 2021 by Simon Robinson 2 Comments

Things repeat if you journal every day for more than a year. This, for example, is my second International Women’s Day. Last year, I wrote of ‘… stories out there about the hordes of women trapped into unrecognised care roles. You know these women. They are your sisters and your daughters for whom these roles are harder to accept than for your wife, mother and grander-mothers.’

Prehistoric Burial Cairn … Tibradden Mountain … on IWD 2009.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: anita bhatia, Covid-19, inequality, pandemic, photo, suffrage, UN, walking, women's day

Screensavers and Proteins Part 1

February 19, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I can type because there are proteins that help me do it. The proteins in question enable my muscles to contract and slide over one another among other mundane tasks. They do the same for you and all of our proteins deserve enormous respect. And despite enormous research efforts, we don’t yet know enough about proteins.

Dun Laoghaire Winter 20091228 © Simon Robinson
Canon 450D | Canon 55-250 F4-5.6 IS | 194 mm | 1/15s | f/5.6 | ISO 400 | handheld
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: CERN, computing, Covid-19, moore's law, photos, vijay pande

Life Long Suffering

January 25, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I recently mentioned being stopped by the police on Baggot Street in Dublin. It’s happened again.

Repurposed old iron nails and life long suffering, themes that complement each other.
Transport by Antony Gormley in Canterbury Cathedral.
Repurposed old iron nails from the repaired roof.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: antony gormley, bloody sunday, camera, Covid-19, ira, photography

Cautionary Approaches

January 24, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

One of my school teachers used to tell a cautionary tale about a pedestrian who was killed when caught on a road at the bottom of a hill. He’d stepped between the lights of two oncoming bicycles. We were twelve or thirteen years old and not everyone in the class understood the silly joke.

today … looks like I feel when my brain hurts … a permanent network of confusion illuminated by a temporary coat of conviction … or just winter snow …
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: Covid-19, financial times, pandemic, photo, tim harford, vaccination

Sakharov Prize

December 15, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The European Parliament has announced that the 2020 Sakharov Prize is going to the Belarusian  opposition Coordination Council, a predominantly female group who are holding out for dignity and democracy. It’s surely a mark of the 26 year reign of the podpolkovnik‎ (supreme commander) Alexander Lukashenko that this is the third time the prize has made its way to the troubled Belarus.

Persistent bloom despite the winter (this date 2008).
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: alexander lukashenko, belarus, buenos aires, Covid-19, donald trump, european parliament, mortality rates, nature, pandemic, photo, sakharov prize

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