This has been a week of anxieties and frustrations – woops, sorry Doctor, I am not supposed to get stressed, I know. Well, all this waiting around for the next stage in my treatment is now over – phew! I…
Rain not snow. Water drips from the gutter. Is it beautiful or a worrying reminder that the gutters need clearing? Or both? I kinda like it. Just as I enjoyed the icicles that hung here briefly yesterday. Pity I didn’t…
I am allowed a soppy moment or two, I think. Well even if I am not, let me get away with it, OK. I am feeling a whole lot more cheerful today. Is it the sunshine? Is it that snowdrop…
The snow is melting here in South Eastern England. Yesterday’s snow is going but the fun lingers on, at least in memory, for those who embraced the opportunity. Of course, some people had no choice but to get on with…
Yay!!! As everyone here is shouting. We’ve had snow and all the boring things are closed.No schools, no trains to London, no cars on the roads, no buses, no court sessions, no punishment, no work.England, or at least this part…
Two men are digging up the road outside my place this morning. A pneumatic drill’s growls are mingling with Bach’s Double Violin Concerto. It would be so easy to be irritated. The peace of a Sunday morning disrupted by road…
My neurologist rang yesterday. She filled me in on the latest news on my brain haemorrhage. God you guys must be so fed up with this! Well, she said that the climical meeting has been held – a kind of…
Life carries on within the narrow confines of this house where I am, hopefully, recovering from my brain haemorrhage and fractured spine. Three months now of this cursed “taking care.” Don’t do too much, take a sleep in the afternoon,…
So I stay here at home waiting for that call to hospital. I have been warned to watch out for any new symptoms which could mean going to casualty. It is a strange experience studying your own brain…..your thoughts and…
So, yesterday the new American president announced a financial plan for his country’s motor industry and here, today, in Britain we hear that, kind of new, Peter Mandelson, the Business Secretary, is going to hand out £2.3 billion pounds to…