Minimalist poet, minimalist lifestyle

If the translator is a man, HE translates.
If the translator is a woman, SHE translates.
If the translator is a computer, IT translates.
If the translator is either a man or a woman, S/HE translates.
Whether the translator is a man, a woman or a computer, S/H/IT
translates.

I've just been into town to pick up some proofreading work; the first few chapters of a friend's autobiography.

The weather's warm and sunny and so I should be able to sit out in the garden this afternoon for a few hours and make a start.

A seriously ill patient has been kept alive in Australia by being fed vodka through a drip.

The 24-year-old man, who had swallowed a poison in an apparent suicide attempt, was treated while in a coma in Queensland.

Doctors set up the drip after running out of medicinal alcohol, used as an antidote to the poison, reports the BBC.

Dr Todd Fraser from the hospital said: "The patient was drip-fed about three standard drinks an hour for three days in the intensive care unit.

"Fortunately for him he was in a medically induced coma for a good portion of that. By the time he woke up I think his hangover would have well and truly gone."

The man spent 20 days in hospital before being discharged.