13 December 2010
Yesterday early, off to Papworth Hospital, by ambulance – with two very nice lady ambulance attendants, who took it in turns to drive, very well I thought- having spent the night plugged into the Oximeter, designed to measure the amount of saturated oxygen in my lungs. The tests were the usual ones plus an assessment […]
12 December 2010
A bad night last night. My shoulder and hip were very painful  and it kept me awake, so the new combination of painkillers is not really working. I’m off to Papworth hospital tomorrow for my six weekly assessment so will take it up with them.  In the early hours of the morning, a couple of […]
11 December 2010
This afternoon, two of the Clavering’ old faithful’s’, Barton and Judith William-Powlett came round to tea.. Judith came bearing her beautiful Christmas cake which she has made for me for at least the last 25 years, knowing my penchant for a good moist fruit cake – she is a great cook and her cakes are […]
10 December 2010
Today was my first trip outside since 16 November, when I last went to the golf club.  Dr Julian Critchlow, my good friend and joint literary executor and his his solicitor partner, and also my good friend, Simon Tolson and wife Charlotte, all drove up from London to very kindly give me lunch at Jamie […]
9 December 2010
Today is my mother’s 94th. birthday. You don’t have to be a genius to work out that she was only 17 when I was born but, at  least, she was married! Not that it seems to matter a jot today, with around 30% of babies born, out of wedlock, in the UK. In the early […]
8 December 2010
Yesterday I mentioned that I was reading Prof Stephen Hawkings’ book, The Grand Design. I really ought to say little more about this book. Although the authors write in fairly plain language, inevitably one gets involved with quark’s, neutrons, protons, atoms and the like and numbers so long that the number of zeros would take […]
7 December 2010
From the long description I gave yesterday of a typical day in the life of … The reader will appreciate that there is not a great deal of excitement or interesting events on which I can report. In fact, the highlight of my day today was to have been the second visit from Charlie, from […]
6 December 2010
I managed to get myself in a frightful muddle over the last two or three days entries as much as anything because I realised that I could not bang on about the cricket as my readers are worldwide and the great majority of them, first of all, wouldn’t understand what I’m talking about and, in […]
5 December 2010
Another uncomfortable night. In the early hours of the morning my joints really began to feel quite painful knees, hips and shoulders. This despite taking 400 mg. of Ibuprofen plus 1000mg. of paracetamol. Tonight I shall switch to the stronger Diclofenac  recommended by Dr Chris Alan, plus 1000 MG of paracetamol and see if that […]
4 December 2010
Today is the day of the Gordon’s Golden Wedding party. They are having an open house for the afternoon for a glass or two of champagne and tea. Sadly the logistics of getting me up into the house and into their reception room, particularly in this freezing cold weather, makes it too difficult for me […]
D. Mark Cato
D. Mark Cato