13 March 2011
A really lazy weekend mainly watching the World Series Cricket in India and in between the Six Nations Rugby. Again, another nail-biting finish in the match between India and South Africa with South Africa pulling off a totally unexpected win. In the rugby, a rare, if not a first time, win for Italy against France. […]
11 March 2011
Another international  disaster. This time a massive earthquake in Japan. Something in the order of 9 on the Richter scale. Another instance of the movement of the tectonic plates. Japan is renowned for the number of earthquakes from which it suffers but most of them are fairly minor and the buildings are constructed with this […]
10 Mark 2011
I said this was a busy week. Today I went off to Addenbrookes Hospital for my quarterly MND assessment. Fortunately, in the meantime, I had received the consultant report is from the orthopaedic clinic, at Addenbrookes which I attended some two or three weeks ago. The long and short of it is that there is […]
9 March 2011
 I listen to a fascinating programme in the early hours of the morning,, a couple of nights ago, entitled Death and Dying. It was a repeat of a radio discussion in 2008, on the BBC World Service Interview series, with the 90-year-old authoress Diana Athill, who has written on the subject of death. Miss Athill […]
8 March 2011
Today was the first experiment for me going to London, by train in my wheelchair. The last visit by train I think was in May last year when I fell off and broke my leg. I have been to London once or twice since, but was travelling all the way by car with Barry.’ My […]
7 March 2011
The beginning of a busy week. Early this morning I went off by ambulance to Papworth Hospital for my quarterly respiratory tests. Although I shall have to wait for the consultant’s written report the general feeling was that although I had deteriorated very slightly since my last visit in December, on the whole the signs […]
6 March 2011
I heard the most extraordinary comment made in a radio programme, when I was half asleep in the middle of the night, a couple of days ago, concerning money spent by the Ministry Of Defence, presumably on general maintenance and repair contracts on public buildings owned or leased by them. So far as I recall […]
5 March 2011
Harking back to my recent entries concerning mentoring and role models, we have seen over the past couple of weeks two of our MPs being jailed for fraudulent expense claims. Over the last couple of days there has been a case reported of a senior minister in the German government, a Baron no less, allegedly […]
4 March 2011
As a result of my mentioning the feeding frame a couple of days ago, I received a comment, on my blog, from another MND sufferer asking if I had included a picture of this frame on my blog as he might well benefit from using it. I had to admit that I have not so […]
3 March 2011
As a result of me mentioning my coughing fit, couple of days ago, I received an e-mail from the good Dr Michael in Australia, cautioning against eating toast and even bread, he mentioned semi-fluid food. What a horrible thought. God forbid I will have to keep myself alive that way, at least not in the […]