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20 December 2010

Posted by DMC on 20 December 2010 in Diary |

It’s all looking rather serious for those people who intend to travel at Christmas, with no break in sight in the icy weather. With families due to disperse countrywide to visit their relatives, all such plans have to be on hold. There is absolutely no sense at all in venturing out with young children with […]

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19 December 2010

Posted by DMC on 19 December 2010 in Diary |

The country is still paralysed by sub-freezing conditions and, in places, heavy snowfalls. l  Horrendous stories prevail of people who being stuck in traffic jams on motorways  for seven or eight hours or overnight at airports, sleeping on the floor with little or no hot food or drink available. ( I wonder how much petrol […]

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18 December 2010

Posted by DMC on 18 December 2010 in Diary |

I brush over England’s performance in the third Test at the WACA in Perth Australia. Let us say that it turned out to be one of the worst defeats we have ever suffered at the hands of our old enemy. Australia gloriously snatched victory out of the jaws of almost failure. Suffice it to say […]

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17 December 2010

Posted by DMC on 17 December 2010 in Diary |

Great dramas continued throughout the night at this time nothing to do with the respirator. This time it was a cricket. For going along from what I am absolutely certain winning position, 78 without loss, England were suddenly all out for 187, 81 behind Australia’s first innings score. The damage being caused by, Johnson, the […]

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16 December 2010

Posted by DMC on 16 December 2010 in Diary |

Apologies yet again to my non-cricket loving readers but in the early hours of this morning the third of the five Test Matches between England and Australia, commenced in Perth and, of course, I listened, on and off, all night.. England started off staggeringly well, dismissing the first five Australian wickets for 69 runs. Then […]

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15 December 2010

Posted by DMC on 15 December 2010 in Diary |

Today started off badly. Unfortunately, I had a collapse moving from the breakfast table to my frame and ended up on the floor.  ‘My lovely’ kept her head and after scouting around outside for someone to give assistance and failing decided to see if we could use our standing hoist. Amazingly, she just managed to […]

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14 December 2010

Posted by DMC on 14 December 2010 in Diary |

This was my big day at the golf club. the Christmas lunch for the Tuesday Geriatric club. It  thought it was still a rather chilly so I decided not to go up the early and travel around in the buggy but just arrive for lunch. In retrospect I think I made a mistake, as it […]

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13 December 2010

Posted by DMC on 13 December 2010 in Diary |

Yesterday early, off to Papworth Hospital, by ambulance – with two very nice lady ambulance attendants, who took it in turns to drive, very well I thought- having spent the night plugged into the Oximeter, designed to measure the amount of saturated oxygen in my lungs. The tests were the usual ones plus an assessment […]

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12 December 2010

Posted by DMC on 12 December 2010 in Diary |

A bad night last night. My shoulder and hip were very painful   and it kept me awake, so the new combination of painkillers is not really working. I’m off to Papworth hospital tomorrow for my six weekly assessment so will take it up with them.  In the early hours of the morning, a couple of […]

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11 December 2010

Posted by DMC on 11 December 2010 in Diary |

This afternoon, two of the Clavering’ old faithful’s’, Barton and Judith William-Powlett came round to tea.. Judith came bearing her beautiful Christmas cake which she has made for me for at least the last 25 years, knowing my penchant for a good moist fruit cake – she is a great cook and her cakes are […]

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