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 […]
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 […]
D. Mark Cato
D. Mark Cato