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Do something for me. Hold your breath for 60 seconds. No, really do it. Back in a minute, literally (hey, used correctly for once!)…. How desperate were you to breathe after the minute? How irresistible and uncontrollable was the urge to take a huge, deep breath in? So imagine if you tried to gasp forContinue reading “Life After Breath”

Cottage cheese and wild garlic tartlets It’s safe to say – I love pastry. The golden, buttery, flaky, moorishness of it. And it gives the added satisfaction of feeling like a genius when you bring it out of the oven – transformed from a beige ball of dough to a mouth-wateringly delicious crust. That’s theContinue reading “Pastry – The Upper Crust”

It’s fair to say that a reductionist approach to David would be a dead-end. His issues and problems are complicated and overlap, which means that trying to untangle the cause from the effect is still a work in progress. You have to start somewhere though, so why not the throat? Facts – as determined byContinue reading “Frog in the Throat?”

Sleep: my bete noire, my enfant terrible, my, my , (Damn it! I need one more to obey the writers’s rule of three, suggestions on a postcard to…..). OK, scrap that introduction, let’s just start again. I’m going to start off with an outrageous claim: I don’t think I’ve ever slept through an entire nightContinue reading “Sleep Deprivation – The Early Years”

OK, it’s about time I added something to the music page, but first a short history lesson. Back in 1992, I had the extreme luck of being in a band, Kerosene, who got signed to a major label. Two years later and that all too brief opportunity to live the dream was over. We splitContinue reading “That Difficult Second Album”

Food is definitely not one of my experiments; it’s just a lifelong way of nourishing yourself and has the added bonus that, even if it’s making no obvious improvements, it’s certainly doing no harm. I’m very much a simple one-pot/plate kind of cook. That means salads, stews, soups and curries but don’t be put-off byContinue reading “Stop Eating the Same, Old Thing – Top Tips for a Varied Diet #1”

Hello. My name is David. I live in Berlin. I suffer from depression, social anxiety, obsessive compulsive personality disorder, obstructive and central apnea, insomnia, laryngeal spasms, reduced mobility in my right shoulder and left knee, splayfoot and I get really bad breath if I eat Weetabix….but, hey, it’s not all fun and games!!! I recentlyContinue reading “Welcome to My World”

I am the wife. We met in university, clicked straight away and got married 2 years later. And it’s been over a quarter of a century of love, laughs and adventures. But I’m not like a normal wife. When things go wrong, I don’t make sympathetic noises, hug and soothingly stroke hair. I try toContinue reading “In sickness and in health…”