folic acid. what the ?? – so i says to the bloke my confidence is shaken. I got to switch my diet, really, give up bread and everything else that tastes nice. give up the milkshakes, the cakes, the biscuits. Cos the doctors said 2 things: statins and folic acid. i go in to collect the folic acid, and it’s not there, what have we come to ?

blood test result, and a letter from the doctor saying i’d better go on statins. No! I must find a different way. diet, exercise. and i got a headache as i speak, am i about to have a stroke ?? living on a precipice.

am reading Arthur Miller’s autobiog, basically a history of the 20 th century. fascinating stuff.