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Torn as I am these days between writing more of my autobiography or writing another blog a number of issues contrive just for the present to favour my blog winning out, for the reasons I shall now enumerate...

Of course the immediacy of the blog is often a winner because it signals immediate approval or disapproval as the case may be, and overall that is very important to me personally. This contrasts with the writing of either one of my two granddaughters I feel, both of whom are reading English at Universities at present and our younger one by a few minutes S has already written and had published her first book, and I believe she is altogether more single-minded. It may also be to do with her being a better writer..?

But I see a great difference between the happy go-lucky kind of guy I see myself as who in the afternoons takes his walk around our small town, bumping into people as he goes and exchanging the time of day with many of them, as yesterday for example, but who doesn't tarry long with most, before deciding it's time to move on... Of course this walking I do is my daily exercise routine which tends to be more than just a stroll, especially now in winter, but perhaps more particularly its main focus is when I interrupt it to take my dip in the sea, and by lingering too much along the way I should no doubt get colder than I do by keeping moving...

Still another couple of factors are 1) that maybe I am now getting up the learning curve of being retired as opposed to not wishing to retire because of the interesting work I used to do together with the places I used to get to visit; and 2) the fact that my memory has been continuing to improve just lately which is a most bizarre thing I believe to happen to anyone..?  

Given then that for the present I have English speaking people as audience in the USA, Britain and Éire I will just reiterate that it was a warning 2 years ago the F and D A issued that atorvastatin could lead to cognitive decline which prompted me to reduce my dose by half on the one hand, with immediate benefit in terms of restoring a less than perfect short term memory, but more recently a further improvement still which may derive from either further benefit from reduced statin levels or from the fact that the higher dosage of thyroxine I have been prescribed these past 4 months is more and more making its therapeutic presence felt as my Indian doctor suggested to me earlier this week..?

Well I am going to leave the matter there for now and turn to yet another couple of things I read in the news just lately: 1) the awful life of the person in UK whose initials were JS, a celebrity who only now has been posthumously outed for his disgusting life as a paedophile and sex predator; and 2) the awful situation of the atheist blogger in Bangladesh who has been murdered at the hands of extremists…

Both of these incidents are so far away from anything one could imagine happening in our neck of the woods hereabouts one would like to think but I guess one should always be vigilant in these cases of becoming complacent. But with the same health centre doctor who told me about drug abuse in our town by way of telling how the automatic renewal of prescripted drugs now works: simply by a phone-in to the centre for all cases except those to do with the rehabilitation of drug addicts, and these words coming from one of the most mildly mannered and kindly physicians and also a most knowledgeable man who hails originally from Calcutta, only a stone’s throw away from Dhaka where the atheist blogger had his young life extinguished for what he wrote… well I shall my audience there to reflect also on these different happenings and trust that in the fullness of time maybe i find the time to transpose them into my biography..? Have a good day everyone...