8 July 2011
A quiet day ahead. The carers have the and done their staff, leaving me in my study in front of laptop.’ My lovely’is enjoying a rare day off and has gone to Cambridge to shop and to visit the Fitzwilliam Museum to see their current exhibition on Italian Art. The Good Doctor slts in the […]
7 July 2011
The media storm is now raging over the so-called telephone hacking. Everyone from the Prime Minister and the proprietor of News International, the Australian media mogul, Rupert Murdoch , are condemning the practice as wicked and totally unforgivable. Of course, Murdoch and the editor of the News of the World at the time, are denying […]
6 July 2011
A media storm has been brewing over the past few days concerning unscrupulous journalists hacking into the mobile phones of politicians, celebrities (whatever that means!) and people in the news. What seems to have emerged is that journalists, or one journalist, from the News of the World newspaper, has been hacking into various telephones including […]
5 July 2011
A sad day. Our cat, Lucy, had to be put to sleep. She been under the vet for some time and had been losing weight and condition. In the event. the vet said her heart was in a bad way and there really was no possibility of her recovering, so poor Alice, had to take […]
4 July 2011
Another day, another outing, this one to the golf club for the geriatric golf day. SMonday this week instead of Tuesday due to some other match having been arranged for tomorrow. Anyway, it’s probably just as well because today it was fine and sunny, in fact, it was rather too hot (27°C), and tomorrow rain […]
3 July 2011
I spent the day at Lord’s watching the third One-Day International (ODI) against Sri Lanka which ended with a comprehensive win, for Sri Lanka by six wickets, putting them to do one up in this series of five. Apart from centuries by Cook for us and a very creditable 107 from Chandamal, that young newcomer […]
1 July 2 011
Men’s semi-final day at Wimbledon, fortunately a beautifully bright dry sunny day so there was no interruption from rain. However, these two matches did not start until the afternoon and in the meantime, early-morning I had an appointment for another remote assist session with the Dragon voice activation people as this latest version is simply […]
30 June 2011
The first of the two-day national strike of public sector workers went off rather like squib only four out of the 28 public sector trade unions took part and it was mainly the schools which reflect so thousands of parents were inconvenienced and the children lost today’s education, for what effect? I suppose we should […]
The first of the two-day national strike of public sector workers went off rather like squib only four out of the 28 public sector trade unions took part and it was mainly the schools which reflect so thousands of parents were inconvenienced and the children lost today’s education, for what effect? I suppose we should […]