28 July 2009
Regular geriatric golf day. Managed to walk round most of the way with it using my shooting stick seat. Lots of fun as usual. This weekly excursion has the merit of taking my mind away from my disability for at least a few hours.
26 July 2009
The question of assisted suicide and has raised its head again following the death of the conductor Sir Edward Downes and his wife’s mutual suicide, last week in Switzerland at Dignitas. The British Council of Nurses, were virtually split down the middle, over the issue with 49% voting in favour of some sort of assistance […]
21 – 25 July 2009
Off to Bwlch Uchaf, our Welsh cottage for a week. We stopped en route, in Church Streeton with my mother and Richard, we fed and watered them and left after breakfast on the Tuesday morning. I must say apart from my mother’s early onset of Alzheimer’s, which is barely noticeable, for a couple of nonagenarian’s […]
16 – 20 July 2009
The event we had all been looking forward to, the second Ashes test at Lord’s. This, particularly so, following England’s dramatic draw in the first of the five test series, at Cardiff last week. This match at Lords too proved to be as immensely exciting with England winning, in the end, by a handsome 150 […]
15 July 2009
The Osbourne family, Nancy, Brian and twins Kate and Tom – now unbelievably almost 18 – came for a garden lunch. The weather was relatively kind and the family managed to battle it out on the croquet lawn in the afternoon. Sadly, I found it too difficult to wield the mallet as I always used […]
14 July 2009
Despite the late night in Cambridge I managed the early start necessary for me to get a lift to the golf club for my weekly walk around with the geriatrics. My legs are still working reasonably well, if somewhat more leaden than they used to be. I cannot say the same about my hands and […]
12 July 2009
What a lovely dinner we had at Peterhouse College last evening – the oldest college in Cambridge, founded, in 1284, by Hugo de Balsham, Bishop of Ely. It was a candlelit supper which made life a little difficult in reading my speech. I wondered whether this was the only remaining college in Cambridge not to […]
11 July 2009
My wretched power shower packed up a couple of days ago, but good old Derek, our plumber, will have it back in action again in a day or two. The point being that with my disability I really rely on this rather than the bath. Incidentally, I tried a bath a couple of weeks ago, […]
9 July 2009
I was absolutely amazed yesterday when I checked on the statistics for the blog and found that there have been around 25,000 hits since April 16th. There were 10,000 or so requests for pages presumably for people reading the diary or the anecdotes. I did give the blog some exposure when it started, through my […]
2 July 2009
Today I had my quarterly MND assessment at Addenbrookes Hospital Cambridge. Having explained the deterioration in my hands and arms the doctor was not surprised and said, on the whole ‘I was doing very well’. In other words, I am going downhill pretty much at the rate that they anticipated (although of course, he neither […]
D. Mark Cato
D. Mark Cato