I went to visit Dick McCray this week. Sadly he is unwell. We met first in 1971 in New York. I was on my first trip to USA, traveling across west to east on my way back to England after spending 3 weeks in Japan looking at and learning a breakthrough technique that became known […]
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Amazing emails last week, from Sue and Judy, who helped me get started on my endoscopy career. Around 1970 I was running a small GI endoscopy service at St Thomas’s Hospital in London (although still officially in training). There were few resources and no one knew how it would all blossom into a huge industry.
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My recent posts have been mainly about my books, now 5 about Fred the friendly snake, and my memoirs, “The tunnel at the end of the light”. The latter tells about my career as a gastroenterologist (a specialist who helps patients to get square meals through round holes). I am reminded that I stopped doing
Five years already! Read More »
Fred has been busy. The recent book about exploring Charleston has been popular locally (as hoped). We recently enjoyed a visit to the nearby marvellous Edisto Serpentarium, a family owned collection of exotic creatures and photographic memorabilia. Well worth a visit http://www.edistoserpentarium.com. And more recently still we have published a small Fred snake coloring book,
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Being somewhat IT challenged I have relied on others to help me with this web site. I did not realize until recently that my posts have been winging their way to a LOT of people. Like me I expect that you get far more emails than you want or can can handle. You will note
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We are lucky enough to have a home on Dewees island, South Carolina. It is eco-friendly, boat-access, no cars, shops (or golf), 3 miles of unspoiled beach, 150 building sites, 70 houses so far. It is a remarkable self-managing and self-supporting community. Since the modern development of the island started in 1991 there have been
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We are so lucky to have special friends “down under” who are kind enough to host and spend time with us as we escape the northern winter. We started in the lovely city of Auckland, with Linda Robert. Then we travelled with her to Blenheim in the South Island to the Marlborough region,
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In London in January for a wander down memory lane
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We had a lovely if brief visit to England to catch up with the family, starting at Long Crendon, with the Richardsons–Nicky, Jules, Perdy and Jack (and Layla) And then, after a spell in London (described separately), on to Bury St Edmunds to be with the Cottons — Andy, Fiona, Alex,
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“When Fred the Snake and Friends explore Charleston” was published 10 days ago. It seems popular, at least among friends and work colleagues, and I have been doing the rounds of places mentioned in it to get more publicity. So, I have been to Charleston Museum, the gift store at the Yorktown, The Children’s museum,
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