26 December 2011 – Boxing Day
I’ve already previously explained what Boxing Day is and its origins (See 18 December 2011 entry) so I won’t go into that again. Smiler and Kimberly left tea yesterday having done us proud and eased the load from ‘my lovely’. Chloe and Karl and the three grandchildren stayed on and spent the night at the […]
25 December 2011 – CHRISTMAS DAY
his will be the shortest entry this year. I just want to wish my readers , all over the world a very happy and relaxed Christmas and my very best wishes for the forthcoming year. Our Christmas will be pretty much the same as it has been over the last half-century with slightly different sleeping […]
24 December 2 011 – Christmas Eve
‘My lovely’ has rushing around the house getting it ready for the invasion of the young who said they expected to be here by mid-afternoon and in fact arrived about 4.30. Suddenly the house was alive with the sound of laughter and youngsters enjoying themselves., The little ones seem to have grown even since I […]
23 December 2011
‘My lovely’ has seamlessly managed to do all the usual business over Christmas – no fuss and bother. It’s just I you for an hour or two and then she would tell initially being beavering away at Christmas cards letters and presents. The only involvement I had was when my lovely wanted my opinion as […]
22 December 2011
A bad night last night. The pain in my shoulder seams now as intense as it was before the injection also that the severe pain in my left foot.has flared up again. With both of those going plus a fairly miserable hip you will understand why I said it was not the best of nights. […]
21 December 2011
What I have reproduced below purports to be an open letter from Sir Frederick Forsyth, the author. Whether or not this is a hoax, in terms of the authorship I know not. However, as to the sentiments expressed in this letter I am sure they will touch a chord with most readers, they are certainly […]
20 December 2011
This entry is being dictated straight to my blog diary for the first time for several weeks. Paul ‘the computer’ has been here most of the afternoon reconfiguring my computer in the final phase of the work he has been doing over the past two or three months to resolve my problem with Dragon. What […]
19 December 2011
A welcome knock on the door at 7.30 this morning. It was that good Carla, the carer Ross Nursing have dedicated to us, who had just returned from one month’s holiday in Mexico, with her family.(She has a Mexican husband. It sounds so romantic. I love pulling her leg, from time to time, suggesting that […]
18 December 2011
7 days until Christmas eve. Seve days of last-minute rushing around buying presents and delivering them locally. That is one thing that possibly ‘my lovely’ has always being very good at over the years, and that is giving presents, at Christmas, to everyone who have served and helped us during the preceding year. She maintains […]
17 December 2011
Paul ‘the computer ‘came round this afternoon and did some absolutely marvellous work on my computer. First of all he fitted a brand-new screen in the laptop, which he had managed to buy for just under £40, which had got damaged at the hospital the other day when an elderly gentleman backed his wheelchair into […]