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  “No, you can’t always get what you want”   The Rolling Stones (1969)   Well, I most certainly  wanted  this...     ...and indeed, I got it!   “You can’t  always  get what you want” is not the same as saying “you  never  get what you want.   That said, the quoted lyric, will often ring true!   By way of a relatively unimportant (but recent) example:   Having acquired that lovely Gibson Les Paul, I decided that it needed a (very expensive!) Vox valve amplifier to go with it...   Now, it’s not that I needed another guitar amp. I just felt that the new guitar warranted a significant upgrade.   Of course, the pictured amplifier, would have been such a thing.   In a sense therefore, this is another thing that I  wanted.   BUT   Maybe my existing amplifier is perfectly  good enough,  and there isn’t, any need to spend an extra £  enormous !   On, gratefully received, a...
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  “When I get older, losing my hair Many years from now” I beg to differ...   First, I’ve been “losing my hair” for quite some time now!   As for getting “older”, well...   ...hardly, “many years from now”!   I haven’t quite reached 64, but I’m well on my way!   Last month saw my 60 th  birthday!   As you can imagine, it was an eventful time, and it is worth making a few mentions of various birthday related happenings.   This is primarily a  “what I’ve been up to”  kind of post.   BUT   There is (as usual) a bit of  underlying brain injury stuff .  Nothing new, but it struck me as worthwhile to include it, in order further to contextualise, some earlier references to the issue.   First, on the day itself, I went out for lunch with 12 family members.   It  was a lovely excursion , and I’m very grateful for everyone being there. Special thanks are due to my children and grandchildren, who all ma...
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  “For the times they are a-changin’”   (Bob Dylan 1963) I have previously posted about the extent to which the accident has brought about changes to my physical and mental wellbeing, together with related alterations to my personal circumstances.   As I have repeatedly said,  a shift to “Phil v2.0”   As you will have gathered, this has been a regular source of bewilderment, regret and distress. I didn’t want to have been turned in an instant, into a new person.   But...   ·        am I alone in experiencing change - is personal alterations, all that unusual?   ·        have I really shifted from Phil v1.0 to fill v2.0?    In both cases – No! Starting with the first bullet:   Of course, we all experience change, for the better or worse.   Not for the first time here is some recent family news (and in both cases, the alterations are  positive !)...   First, my...
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