Sunday, June 30, 2013

Haematology June 24, 2013 Hb 10.5 Plt 638 WBC 4,8 Neutrophils 1.83 Platelets up sharply since the previous reading, but haemoglobin up from 9.5 to 10.5. Hydroxycarbamide is increased from five to six times a week, hoping to contain the rise in platelets without reducing haemoglobin. WBC within normal range, neutrophils below bottom limit of normal range. Lowered neutrophil count compromises the immune system, but no treatment is being suggested.

Thursday, June 27, 2013



The Liberal Parliamentary Party under Jo Grimond in 1966
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Saturday, June 22, 2013

This week

Interventions in the House this week: Immigration service http://bit.ly/10bjyCB Temporary stop notices http://bit.ly/12dBEjy Assault on Nigella Lawson http://bit.ly/19qZ5wg Other events: 08.30 Tuesday: meeting of the APPG on Child Health & Vaccine Preventable Diseases, of which I’m co-chair. 08.30 Wednesday: meeting of the APPG on the Nuclear Industry to hear from Candu about their proposals for burning the 100+ tonnes of plutonium stored at Sellafield There are so many All-Party Groups nowadays that it is impossible to fit the meetings into civilised hours of working! Wednesday pm Select Committee on Statutory Instruments: an enormous mass of documents, dealt with in about a minute. The purpose of the exercise is merely to approve criticisms of the drafting of SIs by the clerks. The Committee itself never pinpoints drafting errors that had escaped the eagle-eyed scrutiny by the clerks, making it a nugatory exercise. But even reading the several hundred pages thoroughly would take weeks. There is far too much secondary legislation, much of it verging on incomprehensibility, yet the need for precision in the law dealing with situations that are extremely complex forces the wording in that direction.


One more from the event at Lubbock Road, Chislehurst
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Friday June 20 with 'People of the Road',a new Ealing-based Traveller NGO
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Thursday, June 20, 2013




With Dr Amadou A Scattred, Coordinator of Coalition for Change, The Gambia; Alieu Ceesay, and Luana Gard of Amnesty International, Tuesday June 17
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Friday, June 14, 2013



With Jo Richardson yesterday, at her valuable seminar yesterday on Travellers in Committee Room 3
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This morning, taken for Parliamentary website
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Sunday, June 09, 2013



Party with residents of Lubbock Road to commemorate Sir John Lubbock at the site of Lammas, the house where he lived in Chislehurst from 1861 to 1865. We are standing in front of the plaque on one of the two pillars at what was the entrance to the house.
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Lammas, the house in Chislehurst my grandfather libed in from August 1861 (at the age of 27) until his father Sir John William died in 1865, when he moved bacj to High Elms. Today we attended a residents' tea party on the site of the house in what is now Lubbock Road, organised by local historiam Joanna Friel. I unveiled a plaque on one of the pillars of the entrance to the site where the house stood.
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Friday, June 07, 2013



With Judith Diment of Rotary International, for discussion of their work on polio eradication June 5
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Monday, June 03, 2013

 
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At the Equal Marriage demo outside the House this afternoon
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Sunday, June 02, 2013



Brighton: at the Pavilion

Saturday, June 01, 2013



Dinner at Glyndebourne May 30 - Ariadne auf Naxos
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With old friend Kayode Fayemi, Governor of Ekiti State, Nigeria
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Shelley's, Lewes, where we stayed Thursday && Friday
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