2 May 2011
With some trepidation I managed to shuffle up the ramp into the shower on my frame this morning despite not feeling as safe as I have in the past and I believe that this particular process may swiftly becoming to an end and we may have to resort to the special shower wheelchair. We will, […]
1 May 2011
After the dramas of last evening we managed our usual performance of getting me dressed and walking me to my chair in the study for breakfast. The problem came when I tried to get up again and onto the gutter frame to go to the loo. It soon became obvious that we were in danger […]
30 April 2011
Another quiet day, or at least we thought. The good Dr Michael left after breakfast, for his home in Sweden, and telephoned us late afternoon to say that he had arrived safely. We were fine and spent the rest of the day together and watched one or two of the residue programmes of the Royal […]
29 April 2011
A Red Letter Day. The Royal Wedding of Prince William, the Queen’s eldest grandson and Catherine Middleton, now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Certainly a day that many of the millions of people around the world who were watching on television will remember for the rest of their lives. As one has come to […]
28 April 2011
A fairly standard day. The good doctor working upstairs on his medicolegal reports and me below in the stud,y on my laptop On his last visit Mick, went to Saffron Waldon and very generously bought me a new speaker stand for my iPod. which had excellent sound quality, The only problem was that the buttons […]
27 April 2011
An even earlier start than usual as it was ‘my lovely’s’ Sherborne School for Girls reunion at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. I was up and dressed and having my breakfast by 7 a.m. and Alice was on her way to the station shortly afterwards leaving me in the tender care of the good doctor. We […]
26 April 2011
Being Tuesday, I was meant to go to the Worlington geriatric golf morning and lunch with my golfing mates. However, when I wake up, ‘ my lovely’ told me that there was a very chilly wind and add this to the fact that the temperature is 10° colder today than it was over the last […]
25 April 2011
A quiet day after the busy weekend. Not much happening at this end so I thought I might share with my readers two interesting e-mails I have received. The first time comes from a cousin of Alice’s, Bruce Kirkby, whose father emigrated to Canada some years ago but the family retained a cottage, on or […]
24 April 2011
In my Good Friday entry I mentioned that I was in Jerusalem in the mid-50s, possibly on the way to Baghdad, I cannot recall without researching memoirs (to do so is extremely different manner as I cannot move from this chair or indeed handle paper any more the reader must just put up with what […]
23 April 2011-St George’s Day
Our patron saint’s day. Sadly not celebrated universally as is St Andrew’s Day in Scotland and St Patrick’s Day in Ireland. Shame on us. However, I was delighted to read the following in What’s – In and around Uttlesford  St Georges Day celebration in Saffron Walden. Starts 2 pm at the Castle. Music and celebration will follow the […]
D. Mark Cato
D. Mark Cato