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19 March 2012

Posted by DMC on 22 March 2012 in Diary |

The astute reader will realise that I wrote nothing yesterday on Mother’s Day. This should not be confused with Mothering Sunday, a Christian festival which falls on the fourth Sunday after Lent and is celebrated throughout Europe. In the UK however secularly in 17th or 18th century it became the only day that domestic servants […]

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18 March 2012

Posted by DMC on 22 March 2012 in Diary |

18 March 2012 Following on from my comments yesterday on Rees Mogg’s article in The Times, ‘ Protect traditional marriage for which children’s sake’, ‘my lovely’ presented me with a full-page advertisement from The Times, placed by Coalition for Marriage, claiming that 70% of people say keep marriage as it is. It goes on to […]

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17 March 2012

Posted by DMC on 22 March 2012 in Diary |

There were two issues in articles in The Times over the last couple of days that ‘my lovely’ cut out for me to read , as they are both matters about which we both have strong views. The first concerned experimenting on animals, testing out new drugs etc in the interest of research. It is […]

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16 March 2012

Posted by DMC on 17 March 2012 in Diary |

Another milestone day. Our 49th wedding anniversary. I remember the day well. I have arrived back, on Friday evening, from a three-week ski holiday in Zermatt and St Moritz, played squash on Saturday morning and got married at 2.00 at Holy Trinity Brompton-but that’s another story, other than to say that the best place for […]

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15 March 2012

Posted by DMC on 16 March 2012 in Diary |

Another absolutely beautiful ‘summer’s day. When the temperature in the mid teens and an almost clear blue sky, it was a repeat of yesterday’s weather when I really should have gone to the golf club left it too late to book with Ollie’s. Wheelchair Friendly Taxi Service. I’ve had a couple of calls now to […]

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14 March 2012

Posted by DMC on 15 March 2012 in Diary |

Yesterday was meant to be my second visit this year to join the geriatrics on the Tuesday golf day and have lunch at the club. The weather forecast was for a sunny day with a temperature of around 15°. In the event, having spoken to Ollie’s wife Debbie neither of us were happy with the […]

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13 March 2012

Posted by DMC on 14 March 2012 in Diary |

I had a bit of a shock yesterday when I thought that my artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) had finally gone wrong. I should perhaps explain, for those readers who were not with me in the earlier days when I recounted the history behind the AUS. What happened is this. In 2000 I misdiagnosed with prostate […]

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12 March 2012

Posted by DMC on 13 March 2012 in Diary |

Another broken night with a painful foot. I couldn’t say exactly where the pain was coming from but it was fairly excruciating at times, although once I was up and dressed it was fine, no further pain.. I think the medical profession are just as foxed as I am as to the cause but I […]

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11 March 2012

Posted by DMC on 12 March 2012 in Diary |

The good Dr Michael is now well on the way back to Australia but he is a worried man and certainly came see the results of the tests carried out on son Tom who was recently diagnosed recently was multiple myeloma (see 7 March entry). I must admit that I also am very interested in […]

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10 March 2012

Posted by DMC on 12 March 2012 in Diary |

The good Dr Michael left early this morning to meet his ex-wife Elizabeth at Stansted airport. They were both going on to London where Mick was seeing Elizabeth off on the Eurostar to Paris before catching his own plane back to Australia. I heard from three of my regular readers yesterday morning that a warning […]

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