20 December 2011
This entry is being dictated straight to my blog diary for the first time for several weeks. Paul ‘the computer’ has been here most of the afternoon reconfiguring my computer in the final phase of the work he has been doing over the past two or three months to resolve my problem with Dragon. What […]
19 December 2011
A welcome knock on the door at 7.30 this morning. It was that good Carla, the carer Ross Nursing have dedicated to us, who had just returned from one month’s holiday in Mexico, with her family.(She has a Mexican husband. It sounds so romantic. I love pulling her leg, from time to time, suggesting that […]
18 December 2011
7 days until Christmas eve. Seve days of last-minute rushing around buying presents and delivering them locally. That is one thing that possibly ‘my lovely’ has always being very good at over the years, and that is giving presents, at Christmas, to everyone who have served and helped us during the preceding year. She maintains […]
17 December 2011
Paul ‘the computer ‘came round this afternoon and did some absolutely marvellous work on my computer. First of all he fitted a brand-new screen in the laptop, which he had managed to buy for just under £40, which had got damaged at the hospital the other day when an elderly gentleman backed his wheelchair into […]
16 December 2011
I received an email yesterday from the Trading Standards supervisor (the first and last, in fact, perhaps he has been reading my blog in which I complained I had not heard from them!). Anyway the long and the short it was that, Chris Missen, the officer dealing with it had certainly been in touch with […]
15 December 2011
Yesterday, ‘my lovely’ called me from the front hall and said that someone had come to see me. I looked through the dining room and saw this little middle-aged lady standing there. I had absolutely no idea who she was until Alice broughy her through into study. ‘This is the new vicar’ she said. .She […]
14 December 2011
Following the EU summit last week, our Prime Minister’s of the proposed new EU constitution, on the grounds that it could damage our economy and in particular is biased against financial institutions, is still very muchin the nes. I had intended to write a piece about this but then received an excellent summary from a […]
13 December 2011
Another Tuesday, only two more to go before Christmas. Although it was a lovely day, bright and sunny, it was extremely chilly but I still went to the club because today was the Geriatrics Christmas Lunch. There was a good turnout and it was great seeing all my old mates again. I very much doubt […]
12 December 2011
As another week has gone by with no telephone call from either the Trading Standards people or the Dragon technician, I thought I would chase up Trading Standards who are meant to be chasing up the Dragon people. . Christmas is upon us and there is little time left to resolve this matter before the […]
11 December 2011
In the light of the current world situation I thought I would start with what have been described as the five best sentences ever written, Some of which were written centuries ago but are just as apposite today. and then I will conclude this entry with 25 excellent homilies. or, If you prefer it , […]