The end of another cycle of treatment and it seems to have gone well.   At least the ‘bad stuff’ in my blood has been pushed back to some ...

  Like many people I am   looking forward to a family Christmas celebration.   The grandsons are sure to make it a lively occasion and it wi...

They say you should never meet your heroes.  I caught the wisdom of that early in my life.   Aged about ten and living in walking distance f...

  The bus was packed and I found myself sitting next to a woman I didn’t know.   ‘Busy bus,’ I said.   She nodded agreement and that I thoug...

  I was in a lift with another patient in the Beatson Cancer Centre.   He looked to be in his early twenties and the cancer was wringing him...

  There have been a number of celebrities who have been willing to speak publicly about their personal experience of cancer, how they coped ...

  It was 24 December 1988 and my first Watchnight Service as minister of St Paul’s.     It was something I had looked forward to.     A guar...