9 November 2009
I gave a talk through the No.1 London Rotary club today. Just a 20 minute condensed version of my life since I was a member on this club 45 years ago. The motto of Rotary International is Service above Self which seems to fit in very neatly with the objective on this blog. The talk […]
8 November 2009
That’s about it on the physical side. Nothing too alarming. I think the reader deserves a veritable feast of anecdotes, jokes etc. for some light relief. After all we must not lose sight of the objective of this blog. It is not all about me dying. Although it started out as Dying to Live with […]
5 November 2009
After a good  night’s sleep, Mick and I spent the day in my office beginning to catch up with more e-mails, thank you e-mails to all those wonderful people who had been so kind to us on our visit etc. neither of us being prepared to recognise that there is anything approaching jet lag. However […]
4 November 2009
Our last day. Fortunately the sun came out and I was able to have a final morning on the sun bed listening to exquisite music. I packed up and returned to my room around 1 p.m, for my fruit lunch and, with considerable help from Mick, completed my packing before spending a last hour au […]
3 November 2009
This was our penultimate day and the first which was not wall-to-wall sunshine. There had been a terrific storm last night and there was vegetation debris everywhere. We had been so lucky last evening with the Loy Festival dinner which had been held outside and would have been completely ruined had there been a storm. […]
21 October to 2 November 2009
This entry will be provided shortly as it covers the trip to China and Thailand which I had to record daily on a Dictaphone and long serving secretary is coming in on Wednesday to type it up for me. In the meantime I cover the last couple of days of the trip and the journey […]
20 October 2009
As we were not due to leave for the airport until late afternoon I took the good doctor to the golf club to join the geriatric walk round and lunch. He is still working quite hard so I am sure that the exercise did him some good. We had a good blow which set us […]
18 October 2009
Packing and final tidying up before the trip with a nice lunch at the Axe & Compasses in Arkesden. I had a phone call today, from my friend John Gray, re the pimpled material, about which I rang him only three days ago and which, through his son in Australia, he arranged to have sent […]
17 October 2009
My good friend Dr. Michael Long arrived today from Australia to act as my ‘carer’ and companion for the trip to China and Thailand. We celebrated as usual with our evening bottle of champagne.
15 October 2009
Lunch in London, at Mercer’s, in Threadneedle Street, with my publishers, Informa Group, and Professor Robert Merkin, who is collaborating with Dr. Julian Critchlow, on the Fourth Edition of my large tome, Arbitration Practice and Procedure Interlocutory Hearing Problems. It was good to meet Robert at last as he is one of the other big names […]
D. Mark Cato
D. Mark Cato