19 June 2011
Thank heavens the weather has taken a turn for the better as we had Andy and Delia Schneider from Coburg in Germany, to lunch. They are old friends of Dr Michael, right don’t get many other cases in Sweden in August. Andy is a leading anaesthetist and Delia a talented musician, in fact, she very […]
18 June 2011
Today, son Smiler came down for lunch on one of his regular visits to check up and see if there was anything he could do for me. Fortunately, things seem to be running fairly smoothly, so apart from one job. everything else seems reasonably under control. In our general chat, we did discuss Terry Pratchett’s […]
17 June 2011
I did receive a call at nine o’clock this morning from another very helpful technician from Nuance, the Dragon people. We spent an hour together before I had to go off in my Ollie Wheelchair Taxi to the golf club. I left him in charge of my laptop in the hope that he could resolve […]
16 June 2011
I had an horrendous day yesterday struggling with my laptop. First of all, it was the Orange Live Box and that took a couple of hours to sort out with the people from Orange and then I found although the Live Box itself was working. I had no Internet connection. That meant another couple of […]
15 June 2011
I just finished listening, or rather watching, Terry Pratchett’s BBC programme, Choosing to Die. I was rather dubious to start with as to whether or not I should watch this programme at all, as it deals with the actual death of Mr Smedley, who took himself to Switzerland to avail himself of the facilities of […]
13 June 2011
Yesterday, was my quarterly assessment at Papworth Hospital. I went through all the usual sniff and blow tests and was not surprised to find that my Forced Vital Capacity had gone down from 49 to 42, a drop of around 15%. I’m not sure how that translates in terms of volume capacity of my lungs, […]
12 Junr 2011
It’s been a quiet weekend for me but a busy one for the Royal family It was the Queen’s’ official’ 85th birthday and the Duke of Edinburgh’. Prince Philip’s, 90th birthday. He is now the longest serving consort that the English royal family has ever had. I have had the dubious pleasure of meeting Prince […]
11 June 2011
Sadly the splint which Lynne made for my right hand does not really work very effectively, even in conjunction with the articulated armrests. The whole thing is far too awkward to manipulate, so for the time being I will have to continue leaning over to the right and using my left finger splint Last night […]
10 June 2011
When I was at Lord’s the other day Brian Osborne delivered a lovely postcard from his daughter Kate who has spent part of her year off, before going to Durham University, working with small children in Uganda. The postcard she gave me showed half a dozen beautiful Maasai girls dressed with traditional beaded ornaments but […]
9 June 2011
Had a great lunch, at the Cricketers pub next door, with Mark Jenkins and Simon Walker, contemporary school friends of son Miles but also my friends which I suppose is not surprising as I have known them for over 30 years, and in any event I seem to still have the mental age of 40-year-old […]