12 June 2010
I was looking at last year’s diary for March, around the date of our 46th wedding anniversary, and was amazed to find that there is a complete bank between the 8th.and 25th. of that month. I thought at first it was an entry I may have sent to Richard that got lost somehow and that […]
10 June 2010
My oldest friend – in both senses of the word – 92-year-old Geoffrey Hanscomb and wife Jessica, came to lunch today. Thank heavens they are both in amazingly good form. Geoffrey gave me my first job, when I was 15, in my summer holidays, and we have been friends ever since. It was Geoffrey, through […]
9 June 2010
A quiet day. ‘My lovely’ out and about doing her Wednesday things. whilst I was overseen by Jane ( ‘the sheep’) my carer (there are so many Janes in our life we have to differentiate one from the other -in any event it is very Welsh to tag people by their occupation. ‘William the road’, […]
7 June 2010
A mid-morning visit from my brother-in-law, John Garton Jones and wife, on the way down to the West Country to visit son William. John very generously bought me a good bottle of Glen Livet, single malt whisky a welcome gift — so much more acceptable than flowers and chocs! Interestingly, later that day, we had […]
6 June 2010
Chloe wais an absolute star and helped me this morning with some very fiddly paperwork. She left after lunch but had a dreadful journey home taking almost 3 ½. hours instead of the normal 1 ½.. Something to do with the Blackwell Tunnel in which, the day before, one of the Derby runners had got […]
5 June 2010
My darling daughter Chloe came down just before lunch today to spend the night to give her mother, a break and to spend a little time helping me with my business affairs. The dear girl even brought her own food with her, a delicious fish pie and a scrummy summer pudding .We spent a very […]
4 JUNE 2010
Our nice district nurse, Ellen, came today, on my bidding, with a colleague (whose name, to my shame, I have forgotten) a general check-up on how things were going. No great alarms about any of my minor ailments but she is going to chase up the mobile NHS dentist for whom we have been waiting […]
3 June 2010
Sarah Moss, our lovely OT, came this afternoon to check out the wet room and see how we were coping. In particular, I was anxious to sort out the ramp situation. Until this is resolved and they are in position I cannot resume working in the office, either with the frame or wheelchair.. We looked […]
2 June 2010
A wheelchair day. Holly’s, who provide NHS wheelchairs, bought a splendid aluminium wheelchair which conveniently folds up and will fit neatly into the boot of a car. This will be particularly useful, in a couple of weeks or so, when we go to Cornwall, for example. Then, believe it or not, two of Holly’s assessors, […]
1 June 2010
Good old Graham sent to me, last evening, the Mugs Guide, for entering the text of this blog. It was a brilliant piece of work and I found the process extremely  simple. I only wish I’d had this instruction before and could have saved Richard a great deal of aggravation. Having now mastered the text […]
D. Mark Cato
D. Mark Cato