Thursday and Friday passed in a fairly routine manner, though I was feeling a bit low by the end of the week. I think it was my hormones, combined with lots of little niggly things going wrong. The dam burst on Fiday night and I had a good cry, giving Billy’s shirt a thorough soaking [...]

On Wednesday, Raji drove up after a half day at work, and was in good time to join us to watch the England game against Andorra The first half was appalling, though the Andorrans were defending in numbers, killing everything, and bullying their way through. I didn’t agree with the fans booing and heckling the [...]

On Tuesday night, I went to the school for a Parent-School-Partnership meeting. It was quite constructive and I do think we are making some progress. Already the school has been working on its web site and there is a lot of useful information on there now. We’d like to see a “Parents” area with useful [...]

On Tuesday at the hospital, I had a conversation with an elderly lady who felt she was not worth “wasting NHS money” on. She needs compression stockings, and we had been given her basic measurements by the referring consultant, but they didn’t fit into any off-the-shelf stockings sizes. This means we have to take a [...]

I had to be in work early on Monday which meant that I left the house before everyone else. I did the washing up, made sure that things were basically tidy, and left a note for our new Mrs Gem (She’s a gem to help me out with the cleaning, hence her blog nickname ) [...]

On Friday night, whilst playing darts, Billy asked the team if we’d be prepared to help him with his research project for his Diploma in Sports Vision. Naturally, we all agreed, so on Saturday afternoon, we all arrived in the pub, with darts, not knowing what was expected of us. We then spent the afternoon, [...]

On Friday, we were playing The Globe away. You may remember that this was the team with the sexist, arrogant, team member that so annoyed me (and I beat in our singles game) when we played them at home. I’d been dreading this game for the whole of the intervening time. I’d considered asking Paul [...]

A normal, busy week whizzed past, and then it was Friday. In the morning, I had a chat and a coffee with a lady who is going to come and do the housework for me twice a week. Just the basics, but it means that when I AM at home, I can get on with [...]

I woke up at my usual time on Sunday morning. Billy was in Cardiff. Stephen was at a friend’s house, having been to a party Saturday night. Laura was asleep. So I got up, had my coffee and breakfast and waited for signs of life. Laura got up an hour or so later, and gave [...]

On Saturday I couldn’t really do much as Sol was round making good the plasterwork in the hall downstairs. (At last, we’re nearly finished on the downstairs. Hallelujah!) This meant I couldn’t do what I’d planned, so had to confine myself to upstairs or the kitchen, so I scrubbed the bathroom, and then settled to [...]