17 July 2011
Dear Chloe decided to leave just before lunch as she had a great deal to do in preparation . .before leaving tomorrow morning for a weeks holiday, in her cousin Augustus’ house in Corfu, . Karl is extremely busy preparing for a four-week trial starting on Monday, so getting everything ready for the holiday fell […]
16 July 2011
Chloe was a great help this afternoon and assisted me to bring the printed version of this blog up-to-date. I have made three hard copies from the very beginning -one for each of the children and one for ‘my lovely’ – so  that there will always be a record for any future member of the […]
15 July 2011
I started my day with yet another long session with the voice activation people, Dragon. Despite having reinstalled the original Version 11 and gone through the training again the programme still failed to recognise the difference between commands and text. I was fortunate enough to speak to the senior technician who did some more tweaking […]
14 July 2011
A mainly medical entry. Ever since I have ceased trying to struggle from one room to the other using my pulpit frame my legs have clearly got weaker by their non-use. As a result the joints are stiffer from lack of exercise and this is one of the causes of pain at night in bed. […]
13 July 2011
I cannot believe that I spent the best part of the morning on the telephone to the Dragon voice activation people, YET AGAIN! This must be my fourth or fifth session with these technicians. Basically, the problem with this latest version of Dragon which, I recently installed, is that it treats my commands as text. […]
12 July 2011
“A rose by any other name will smell as sweet…“. I’m sure Shakespeare was right so far as flowers are concerned but what about girls names?. How could anyone in their right mind saddle their daughter with a name like ‘Harper Seven’?! This is precisely what Beckham and his wife,’ Posh Spice’ have done to […]
11 July 2011
Being Monday,’ Jane that sheep’ should have been here babysitting me for three hours and so, in the middle of the day. However, as she and her partner John are languishing in deepest Wales, staying in Alice’s cottage, Paul, how lodger, the computer geek, who has become my friend, substituted for her. Consequently Paul and […]
10 July 2011
Shortly after Sally (Murphy) –’Sally No.2′ – and Natasha had got me up, dressed and planted me in my study chair, the taxi arrived to take the good Dr to Stansted airport for his flight to Sweden. His next visit will be two for three days before he returns to Australia, at the beginning of […]
9 July 2011
A fairly busy day. The good Dr is still here and seems to have plenty of reports to write or. correct so I did not see much of him until lunchtime. I had booked a table at the Cricketers, next door, take Mick out to lunch. We decided it was fine enough to sit outside-which […]