19 August 2011
A quiet day after all the excitement yesterday. I spent most of the morning on the blog answering and sending e-mails thanking for present etc and then most of the afternoon watching the test match. I am restricting the length of my own entry today as I have a further comment from an American journalist […]
18 August 2011
Today is my 77th birthday. It started well with two laughing jolly girls – Paula and Christine, (they very kindly brought me a birthday card) coming into get me up, give me a shower and dress me. Miles and Kimberly came down from London and ‘my lovely’ generously took us all out to lunch at […]
17 August 2011
 Afterr another frustrating day trying to sort out my voice activation (Dragon) problems it was a great relief today to go to the golf club the weather wasn’t up to much, dark cloudy sky and even a few spots of rain at one stage. I carried my golfing umbrella with me as I have an […]
15 August 2011
I didn’t make an entry yesterday because Dragon has become even more unreliable, not working at all. I have overcome the problem on a temporary basis by dictating into DragonPad and then cutting and pasting the entry into the Blog. So frustrating have I become that I contacted AbilityNet direct rather than going through the […]
13 August 2011
 Alice had one of htr girls tea parties this afternoon. Alice No. 2 (Everard)-with her lovely dog Amber-dropped in mid-afternoon together with Di and Ros Zurlinden. The study is comfortably big enough to seat four people, other than myself, so we all sit round in a circle putting the world to rights over a cup […]
12 August 2011
The rioting and looting seems to be over, now for the inquest. No doubt a Commission of Enquiry will be set up and then in a year or so will report back to the government. I can predict that their findings will be: youngsters from deprived homes having nothing to do; no jobs for the […]
11 August 2011
The rioting and looting continued last night. A special magistrates Court was set up to deal with those who have been arrested, most were remanded in custody to be tried in the Crown Courts where the sentences will be more severe. One of the biggest problems is what to do with the nine and 10-year-olds. […]
10 August 2011
Last night was the fourth of the current riots which have now spread to the North-West and the Midlands. Hundreds of youths rampaged in Salford and Manchester overnight looting and burning shops which led to over 100 arrests. In Birmingham the police are investigating the death of three youths to see if they are connected […]
9 August 2011
My brother-in-law Lauren Grand’s 80th. birthday many happy returns of the day, Lol. My taxi driver advertised for two drivers. He had 30 applicants, not one of them British. In the end the jobs went to 2 Eastern Europeans. Who said there weren’t any jobs out there? The stark truth is that there are jobs […]
8 August 2011
Yesterday saw the second night of rioting in London. It originally started in Tottenham after a policeman had been shot at (and being saved by the bullets striking his mobile phone on his chest) he shot back and unfortunately killed the assailant. This is ostensibly was the cause of the riots in the first instance, […]