6 April 2010
The first truly spring-like day, sunny and bright but a chilly wind. I joined the geriatrics this morning and by sharing a buggy with Griggsy was able to walk and ride alternately and in this fashion probably walked about half of the course, albeit in a slow plodding fashion. There is certainly a noticeable deterioration […]
5 April 2010
I wonder if any reader remembers me discussing the problem of elderly people getting their fingernails cut. If they do they will recall that there is a free toenail service in Essex but no provision for cutting elderly people’s fingernails. So concerned was I, not so much myself as I can afford to have my […]
Easter Monday 2010
Chloe, Karl and three grandchildren came to lunch today. Fortunately the weather is on the mend and the children were able to run around in the garden. It was great to see them particularly as I now find it more difficult struggling all the way to East Dulwich where previously I always tried to go […]
3 April 2010
Captain’s Day at Royal Worlington. I went along in the evening, to the AGM, because the outgoing captain, Nigel Notley, very kindly nominated the MND Association as this year’s charity and the members very generously donated £510 on the day. That will go towards boosting the Great London Swim event.
Good Friday 2010
Alison and Roger Musker dropped in for morning coffee on their way to see one of their children at Bassingbourne. Alison, who was at Sherborne with Alice, has made quite a name for herself as a watercolourist and Roger, having already produced a book listing the entire works of Mozart, is now working on a […]
April Fools’ Day 2010
Delicious lunch with the Sands-Rentons, in Saffron Walden.
17 – 29 March 2010 Anantara Resort, Hua Hin Thailand
After a comfortable car journey to Heathrow I was transferred to a wheelchair which made travelling long distances around the airport considerably easier. I was even put on a platform hoist to avoid me having to battle with the aircraft steps. One of the considerable advantages that all wheelchair passengers enjoy ease to be whisked […]
16 March 2010
Today is our 47th wedding anniversary. And this to a girl to whom I proposed three weeks after I met her in Arabia and was told, “ if you were the last man on earth I would never marry youâ€. Not a totally encouraging response but a two-year romantic courtship followed in Africa and here […]
15 March 2010
I slept last night with the Oximeter, provided by Papworth Hospital, to measure the amount of saturated oxygen in the my lungs. Then off to the hospital for my quarterly lung test. The outcome showed a possible drop in the supine testing of my lung function but the respiratory tests remain stable. My average oxygen […]
13 March 2010
I must say the daily hand massage in order to reduce the fluid, and the arms stretching, certainly seems to be doing some good. I have even introduced a new bed exercise of raising each arm in turn towards the ceiling and circling clockwise and anticlockwise ten times and then repeated a further 10 times. […]
D. Mark Cato
D. Mark Cato