24 June 2011
I spent most of the morning on the telephone to Nuance (the Dragon activation people, tweaking my computer in order to get the system to be more responsive to my commands). Then, in the afternoon, another hour and a half or so on the telephone to Microlink, to resolve for other small problem I had […]
23 June 2011
The Inner Temple dining hall has always been my favourite, although I am still a student member of Lincolns Inn (I should think possibly the oldest). I used to enjoy lunching at the various Chambers as a member of one you were entitled to dine in any of the others. I remember taking my dear […]
22 June 2011
the I think it’s about time I tackled another subject other than myself and the matter which is at the forefront of many people’s minds at the moment is our national debt and the state of our economy. As few, if any, countries of the world can isolate themselves from the global market. Even Australia […]
21 June 2011
The following demonstrates the wonderful care that I receive under the NHS. Mid-morning, after the two carers and showered and dressed me, Ellen, our district nurse visited to check up on one or two small problems. Hard on her heels came Jenny Buckley, who works with Dr Margaret Saunders on the Rank Hospice in Cambridge. […]
20 June 2011
It is one of those rare days in the golf calendar when Monday is Tuesday. As my regular readers will know Tuesday is geriatric-golf day – incidentally we have three new octogenarians. this year, making around seven who play regularly on Tuesdays-I suspect the average age of the Tuesday rollup is now over 70. Anyway […]
19 June 2011
Thank heavens the weather has taken a turn for the better as we had Andy and Delia Schneider from Coburg in Germany, to lunch. They are old friends of Dr Michael, right don’t get many other cases in Sweden in August. Andy is a leading anaesthetist and Delia a talented musician, in fact, she very […]
18 June 2011
Today, son Smiler came down for lunch on one of his regular visits to check up and see if there was anything he could do for me. Fortunately, things seem to be running fairly smoothly, so apart from one job. everything else seems reasonably under control. In our general chat, we did discuss Terry Pratchett’s […]
17 June 2011
I did receive a call at nine o’clock this morning from another very helpful technician from Nuance, the Dragon people. We spent an hour together before I had to go off in my Ollie Wheelchair Taxi to the golf club. I left him in charge of my laptop in the hope that he could resolve […]
16 June 2011
I had an horrendous day yesterday struggling with my laptop. First of all, it was the Orange Live Box and that took a couple of hours to sort out with the people from Orange and then I found although the Live Box itself was working. I had no Internet connection. That meant another couple of […]
15 June 2011
I just finished listening, or rather watching, Terry Pratchett’s BBC programme, Choosing to Die. I was rather dubious to start with as to whether or not I should watch this programme at all, as it deals with the actual death of Mr Smedley, who took himself to Switzerland to avail himself of the facilities of […]
D. Mark Cato
D. Mark Cato