18 June 2010
A great day. The first time back at Royal Worlington Club to since the beginning of May. Tim Stranack, the match manager for our side against The Honourable Artillery Company (HAC is the oldest regiment in Great Britain) very kindly invited me to join them for the day having been, in the past, lucky enough […]
17 June 2010
The big excitement today was seeing Joanna, the physiotherapist, at the Saffron Waldon Community Hospital. I managed a short walk up and down the corridor without the frame but with the girls hands firmly in my support belt had I stumbled. Although they both said that I was doing amazingly well considering the cast had […]
15 June 2010
A very pleasant and helpful physiotherapist, Joanna,  came to see me at home  this morning and after some test walks, mainly with the gutter frame, she said I was doing very well. Frankly, she was not at all keen on the gutter crutches and recommended I did not use them. Instead I should exercise three […]
14 June 2010
The big day arrived at last. Off to Addenbrookes Hospital to have the cast removed. I saw a very nice specialist registrar who assured me that the break had mended and that I could now start putting full weight on the leg. Although I found I could stand I felt very shaky in terms of […]
12 June 2010
I was looking at last year’s diary for March, around the date of our 46th wedding anniversary, and was amazed to find that there is a complete bank between the 8th.and 25th. of that month. I thought at first it was an entry I may have sent to Richard that got lost somehow and that […]
10 June 2010
My oldest friend – in both senses of the word – 92-year-old Geoffrey Hanscomb and wife Jessica, came to lunch today. Thank heavens they are both in amazingly good form. Geoffrey gave me my first job, when I was 15, in my summer holidays, and we have been friends ever since. It was Geoffrey, through […]
9 June 2010
A quiet day. ‘My lovely’ out and about doing her Wednesday things. whilst I was overseen by Jane ( ‘the sheep’) my carer (there are so many Janes in our life we have to differentiate one from the other -in any event it is very Welsh to tag people by their occupation. ‘William the road’, […]
7 June 2010
A mid-morning visit from my brother-in-law, John Garton Jones and wife, on the way down to the West Country to visit son William. John very generously bought me a good bottle of Glen Livet, single malt whisky a welcome gift — so much more acceptable than flowers and chocs! Interestingly, later that day, we had […]
6 June 2010
Chloe wais an absolute star and helped me this morning with some very fiddly paperwork. She left after lunch but had a dreadful journey home taking almost 3 ½. hours instead of the normal 1 ½.. Something to do with the Blackwell Tunnel in which, the day before, one of the Derby runners had got […]
5 June 2010
My darling daughter Chloe came down just before lunch today to spend the night to give her mother, a break and to spend a little time helping me with my business affairs. The dear girl even brought her own food with her, a delicious fish pie and a scrummy summer pudding .We spent a very […]