The tinkling laughter of tiny children filters through the windows of my bedroom. It’s a sunny Sunday afternoon. In…
Articles by John Connor
It’s 3:15 p.m. U.K. time on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. My deadline for this column is actually 3 p.m.
The problem with writing a weekly column is I always need to come up with new ideas. Luckily, or…
I saw my neurologist a few weeks ago for what was effectively an emergency meeting. I’d had the customary…
Really big things are going on in the world. WW3 is again flagged as a possibility. My world is considerably…
The stars sometimes align, even for us atheists. My son was making a fleeting weekend visit from his last…
Let me introduce you to my wife, Jane, by cheekily lifting the title “Be My Wife” from…
Six months ago, I was a reasonably svelte 14 and a half stone. I’m not sure how I…
Well, I’m usually fairly upbeat, but this time, it’s going to be beyond me. We’ve all had relapses…
It’s been a grueling three weeks. Birds ate my breadcrumb trail long ago. I was too tired to follow it…
Usually, I’ve got a fair idea of where I’m headed in my column. This time, I really don’t. I’m…
Something is! I had to be carted off to the hospital in an ambulance on Thursday of last…
The thing about becoming increasingly immobile is that your consumption of TV, radio, podcasts, books and, indeed, anything written goes…
It started with vitamin D. Little did I know I was starting a habit. I had my first…
It was Burns Night last week, which is always a joy. I love whisky and am very partial…
My arms are heavy. Strong antibiotics have held off a urinary tract infection (UTI) for the last eight weeks…
It was late. I dropped the TV remote on the bedroom floor. No biggie. I was sitting on my…
I could be in a fancy restaurant in central London rather than sitting at home writing this. Don’t…
There ‘s a top 10 list of New Year’s resolutions that are most commonly made and then…
The trouble with being a mythological supernatural being is that you begin to doubt your own existence. It…
It’s 4 a.m. and, unsurprisingly, I’m laying flat on my back. Yesterday, I had a whale of a time…
In my angst-ridden teen years, I wrote poetry. It was truly dreadful and should have disappeared in the…
Shooting the breeze after work has been part of my professional life for 27 years. We’re all winding down,…
Hypochondria grabs, and it’s very difficult to shake. I spent the past three days eliminating potential reasons for struggling…
The weekend should have started on Friday. My sister-in-law is over from France and there was the first…
It was one of those mornings the day after, when I was moving like a zombie before they became…
About 10 years ago, in the days before my MS, I had a whole raft of self-imposed jobs.
It looks like a dog’s leash, but it isn’t. I put in “dog’s lead” and “disabled apparatus” into my…
I was going to write about something else, then my MS got in the way. Intellectually, I know…
And so the good news is that if you have MS, then you can get an enhanced annuity in…