Kieran Jefferson

We thank Durdin and colleagues [ [1] Durdin T, Goh A, Pietzak E. Can an imaging-guided pathway replace the current paradigm for muscle-invasive bladder cancer? Eur Urol. In press. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eururo.2021.03.018. ] for their comments on our study [ [2] Bryan RT, Liu W, Pirrie SJ, et al. Comparing an imaging-guided pathway with the standard pathway for staging muscle-invasive bladder cancer: preliminary data from the BladderPath study. Eur Urol. In press.

Winter drags its frosted heels. Spring will never come, so it seems. The wild birds (those that have not vacated these shores for warmer places) line the branches, seemingly waiting for something. There are signs of change if I look hard enough. Herbaceous plants, early daffodils, eager snowdrops, a few hardy grasses, pushing their fat green fingers to the sky, beckoning the sun. In the evening I dig parsnips from the chilly earth, lightly seasoned by hail as I do.

Pineapple weed (Matricaria discoidea) is, as its name suggests, a ‘weed’ that smells and tastes of pineapple.A weed, of course, is simply a plant growing in a place you don’t want it to grow.Some of these plants are edible and indeed delicious, and a morning’s weeding can provide breakfast as you work.You can find pineapple weed, also sometimes called disc mayweed or wild camomile, growing in both rural and urban settings.It can spring up on recently disturbed ground, often on poor and...