“Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with golden lacquer. It teaches us to embrace damage and flaws.” — ManGill. For most of my adult life I have helped repair the sick. Many had their lives suddenly shattered and altered forever. It was a job at which I was quite good. Recently, the… Read more

“Malta is a sod of a place…” RAF Air Vice Marshall, David Niven When making model aircraft I have a compulsive tendency to paint them blue, sometimes just because. This upsets and often ignites people in the hobby known as rivet counters. They believe that if a plastic model is not absolutely, entirely historically accurate… Read more

Couinard Liver Corrosion cast Old Ecole de Medecine, Montpelier As a breast surgeon masquerading as an examiner in General Surgery, the liver segments were my Achilles heel. They were a popular anatomy question, but I couldn’t remember them. Prior to every exam I had to get the anatomy textbooks out. There was a memory trick… Read more