It has now been over 3 1/2 years since I started my blog. I am now a serious MND blogger! I have Motor Neurone Disease (MND/ALS), and I started this blog to have fun, yes fun. It is about my living with MND, but with an absolute splash of humour. I am very analytical, and…
Category: Perspective
My bug bear subject. Lets put world issues into perspective
A Touch of Class?
Having touched on the rather controversial subject of placebos in my last research post, this weeks usual fare scrawl has a loose theme of another, and that is Class!
Rules are made to be broken?
Hi, readers! Another few weeks in onein400 land have passed. I apologise for the recent ‘radio silence’. The good weather and organised chaos have kept me from quill and ink! But now I am back! Settle down with your last remaining Easter eggs (some half price ones are still available in the stores!), enjoy another…
The trials and tribulations of coy scientists
Welcome, to my first research opinion post of 2019 on the hunt for an effective treatment for MND. “About time!” I hear you cry. Calm down, readers. I have been deep in thought and wanted to give you something worth sitting down with a nice cup of coffee to enjoy. This stuff doesn’t write itself,…
Times they are a changin….
Or are they? This week’s theme, to weave into my everyday life, is one of those loose phrases that is often both true and false. Of course, it’s also a classic Bob Dylan song. More from the legendary Bob later but, in the meantime, on with my epistle produced during the recent UK snow! I…
1981 – A Vintage London Fairy Tale
The year is 1981. It is 5.40pm and Lord Lee Bragg, in his Soho Office, is just tidying up his papers after a long trying, yet invigorating, Christmas Eve working day. He is about to set off for Waterloo Station heading home……
I’m coming out and the Heat is On!
“I’m coming out, I want the world to know, I’m coming out….”
Get a grip!
Hi, readers! Get a grip! What do I mean, my loyal subscribers? Read on, into the mystical, yet strangely, totally believable world of onein400…..
That was the summer that was – Part 1
Wow, what a summer! Perfect weather, and time spent with great friends. Best weather since 1976, which I actually remember quite well. So what’s been happening? During my self-imposed exile from the blog over summer, the world has provided plenty of inspiration, through daily events, crazy stories, but above all from the stupidity of the…
Damn, we reached for the stars, and missed, this time!!
Oh dear, I was hoping to title this post, “Reach for the Stars“, but as we have just been knocked out of the World Cup, it’s slightly different. However, the theme remains the same!
Calling Dr Bragg, Come in Dr Bragg…
Dr Bragg!! Who is he? A new type of Doctor; a doctor of all, a doctor of medicine, feelings, music, life and all things important. This week, into his world we tumble and venture. Shall we jump?…..yes let’s jump NOW!! But first, take a good mouthful of Bragg’s Potion 26………….
A time and a place
Good evening readers! There most certainly is a time and place for everything! Both here right now in 2018 and throughout our human existence! Obviously, there are only 40 or so years I can personally comment on, but here goes!
Weapon of Choice Too!
Good day all. Here is Dr Peter Scott-Morgan’s promised guest post as part of MND Awareness Month here in the UK. A provocative article on the challenges we all might face and the pioneering research he is undertaking. His post is about choices that we could take that, as Peter himself often says, will help us…
Retro Edition – Fist Full of Posts
Hi readers. This week I continue with my theme for MND Awareness Month and take both a retrospective and future look at living with MND. So in this early week post, let us go back to the past before coming forward to the present date with my first guest blog announcement that is focused on…
Not a cloud in the sky, got the sun in my eyes……
“And I won’t be surprised if it’s a dream….” Yes, the immortal words of Karen Carpenter. We visited the Top of the World last week. Well, certainly the top of North Wales. It’s now a regular trip for us. A seven hour drive that always seems to flow by knowing what beautiful scenery we are…
Royal Wedding – Souvenir Edition
Wow, what a busy time the week before last was! It did of course culminate with the Royal Wedding. This very very special edition of onein400 is your historical record of last week and is yours to keep for posterity! Lord Bragg’s special His and Her Whisky Cup sets with Bragg’s 90% proof Wedding Whisky…
A brief history of the past 2 weeks
The title of this week’s Easter blog is a sort of tribute to Professor Stephen Hawking whose funeral was held yesterday. A true giant. His genius will enable new technological discoveries and facilitate taking humankind into the future. His ashes will be interned in Westminster Abbey alongside those of Sir Issac Newton, Charles Darwin and…
A step too far/what a difference a day makes – double A side!
Hi readers! Well well, a week or so after snow had covered the south of England, we are now in spring! Or are we? Please note this post was composed before the snow fall today!
An Olympic Dream
It is 1952 and the Winter Olympics are being hosted by Norway. Otto Bragg is a member of the crack Norwegian unique 5 man bobsleigh team. Officially a 4 man sport, Otto is gaining publicity for his vodka distillery by serving drinks to the team during the sleigh run. Apart from a couple of spectators being…
Job done….?
Good day, all! Since my last post, jobs have been completed!
